An accidental blast at Srinagar’s Nowgam police station injured eight personnel late Friday night while they were extracting samples from a large cache of explosives. The material, part of a ‘white-collar’ terror module case, was seized from a rented residence in Faridabad, Haryana. The module was uncovered after threatening posters targeting security forces.

Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party has won one seat in Bihar. Its candidate Satish Kumar Yadav has won, beating his nearest rival, the BJP’s sitting legislator Ashok Kumar Singh, by 30 votes.

A controversy broke out at a premier institute in Kolkata earlier this week over a communal graffiti. A day after the suicide bomb attack near Delhi’s Red Fort, some hate graffiti were seen at the Indian Statistical Institute.