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At least 60 were killed and 77 injured after a train mowed people reveling in Dussehra celebrations near Amritsar on Friday.. The incident took place at Joda Phatak near Amritsar where revelers were watching 'Ravan-dahan' in a ground close to track and a train, coming from Jalandhar, ran over them.

Amid escalating tensions between bitter neighbors India and Pakistan, eight airports were shut down until further notice on Wednesday.The airports which are close to Indo-Pak border were shut down. These include airports of Amritsar, Jammu, Srinagar and Leh, Kullu-Manali, Kangra, Shimla, and Pathankot.

The layer of historical Operation Blue Star was dug one more after decades while inflicting elite British special forces for being indulged in the foretold operation of 1984 during Indira Gandhi's Prime Ministership in India. UK Prime Minister David Cameron, while rejecting such kind of allegation over his special armed forces, strongly condemned on Wednesday saying that no credentials or evidences were there so far to prove the charges of aiding Indian government for repressing outrageous Sikh Militants who secluded in the Golden Temple of Amritsar.

At a well inside the complex of a gurudwara near Amritsar, outcome of volunteers are trying to dig out what they believe are the remains of nearly 300 servicemen who died in the popular 1857 revolt against the British.