Shimla, June 21: At least 13 kindergarten students were wounded on Thursday after their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district.

The accident took place, when students belonging to a private school in Sarkaghat area, were returning home from school when the driver lost control over the vehicle while negotiating a turn near Garli, IANS reported.

One student dead, 11 students & one driver injured, after a school van rolled down and fell into a deep gorge in #Mandi's Dharampur. #HimachalPradesh pic.twitter.com/YHDQJsDujL

— ANI (@ANI) June 21, 2018

According to ANI, one student was killed.

Injured children were admitted to the Zonal hospital in Mandi, some 150 km from the state capital.

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Lucknow, June 21: Gorakhpur terror funding mastermind Ramesh Shah has been arrested in a joint operation by the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra Polic in connection with the  6 terror suspects who were arrested in March.

On his instruction, the ATS official said more than Rs 1 crore exchanged hands between the Pakistani handler and terror operatives, with major funds coming from the Middle East, Jammu and Kashmir and Kerala and distributed to various states.

The arrest was made from Pune on Tuesday and he is being brought to Lucknow on transit remand.

 

UP ATS arrested Ramesh Shah from Maharashtra's Pune on 19 June in connection with the arrested of 6 terror suspects from Gorakhpur in March, who were acting on behest of a Pakistani handler. Shah is the mastermind behind the network. pic.twitter.com/hSF8pbHe6t

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) June 21, 2018

 

Inspector General of ATS Aseem Arun said that soon after his arrival, Shah would be produced in an Uttar Pradesh court and taken on remand for further interrogation.

Six persons involved in criminal conspiracy and distributing money into various bank accounts on the instructions given by a Pakistani handler were arrested on March 24 from Gorakhpur, an official told..

The 28-year-old Shah was the kingpin of the gangand he hails from Gopalganj in Bihar and has been operating a shopping mart in Gorakhpur for many years.

New Delhi, June 21: It was a cloudy morning in the national capital on Thursday, with the minimum temperature recorded at 30.9 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the Met office said.

The humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 58 per cent. The Met has predicted some very light rains for the day ahead.

“It will be a partly cloudy sky with very light rains or drizzle likely,” an official at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

The maximum temperature was expected to hover around 42 degrees Celsius.

The air quality of Delhi and its surrounding regions was moderate, according to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).

Wednesday’s maximum temperature settled at 41.9 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, while the minimum temperature was recorded at 29.8 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average.

IANS