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Barely a day after his release, hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was placed under house arrest in Srinagar late Thursday evening, a police official said on Friday.

At least nine people, including a New Zealander, were killed and 41 were injured, many of them foreigners, when bombs exploded in two luxury hotels in central Jakarta on Friday, police said.

Curfew has been clamped in parts of Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district after two groups clashed and indulged in arson and vandalism, leaving nearly 20 people injured, police said Wednesday.

Two persons were killed and three others injured, as two communities armed with batons and weapons clashed over an alleged desecration of a religious school in Mysore district of Karnataka on Thursday.According to the police, they had to resort to lathi-charge and use teargas shells to disperse the crowd, as the news about the desecration angered members of one community, who came out with weapons and batons onto the streets and had a scuffle with members of another community.

Santa Clara police were investigating a shooting Sunday night that left five people dead and two more, including an infant, fighting for their lives.Santa Clara police Lt. Phil Cooke said police were summoned to a home on Headen Way in the upscale Rivermark community at about 8:30 p.m. by a report of an injured person."When they got here, they found multiple gunshot victims inside the home," Cooke said. "There are five confirmed deceased inside the home. Two others were transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries."

A powerful explosion blamed by police on a suicide bomber killed more than 20 people and injured at least 50 on Friday in the Pakistani city of Dera Ismail Khan, government officials said.Local police officers were unable to deal with the unrest, Mr. Rauf said, adding that he had asked the Pakistani Army to send soldiers to help cope with the situation..
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Five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured Monday after separatist guerrillas struck in two separate localities of this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital.

About 50 people, including seven policemen, were injured on Wednesday when an agitation by a group of farmers demanding adequate compensation for their acquired land in Greater Noida turned violent forcing police to open fire.

Ten people were killed and 11 injured when a suicide bomber exploded close to a police station in Pakistan’s Peshawar city Friday, the second terror attack here in as many days.