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Belgian Police have detained six people in raids so far in their bid to uncover the network behind Belgian terrorist attacks. Authorities believe five men played a part in Tuesday’s bombings. Three of the attackers are dead. Two of them could still be on the loose.



New evidence has now emerged that suggests that the same terrorist cell that caused the Brussels blasts was behind the Paris attacks of November last year. According to La Dernier Heure, a French newspaper, the suicide bombers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui were originally planning attacks on Belgian nuclear power stations. The Paris attacker, Salah Andeslam’s arrest, just days before the Brussels bombings, put pressure on them to change targets fast.



The Congress dragged Baba Ramdev into the Uttarakhand political crisis yesterday by accusing him of “hatching” a plot jointly with Amit Shah to topple the state government. Ramdev has, of course, refuted the charges saying he is unnecessarily being dragged into the ongoing political turmoil in the state and has nothing to do with it.



Pakistan has arrested an alleged Indian ‘spy’ from Baluchistan who it claims was a serving officer in the Indian Navy and deputed to the RAW. Baluch Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti has claimed that the alleged “spy” was sponsoring terrorist activities in the province. A PTI report quoted Bugti saying that the man arrested has been identified as Bhushan Yadav.



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The Maharashtra government has declared drought in 12,000 villages across Vidarbha. Of these, nearly 5,900 come under Amravati division, while the remaining are spread across Gondia, Bhandara, Gadchiroli, Chandrapur, Yavatmal and Nagpur. This decision, by Devendra Fadnavis-led government, will help the farmers avail special drought package as per the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF), for which they weren’t eligible earlier.



Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been found guilty of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide and nine other war crimes charges. The UN Judges have sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Karadzic was found guilty of orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout Bosnia’s 1992-95 war that left 1,00,000 people dead. The 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Europe’s worst since World War Two, claimed the lives of 8,000 Muslims.



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