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Bomb blast in Kanpur, four kids injured

As many as six people were injured when a "crude bomb kept on a bicycle" in Kanpur exploded on Tuesday evening.
The incident occurred in Colonelganj, a crowded and communally sensitive area. All the six injured in the low intensity blast are children.
Police have been deployed in the place, which is tense after the explosion.
Hari Prasad Verma, the Senior Superintendent of Police of Kanpur, told CNN-IBN as yet the blast was not being considered as a terrorist attack.
The DG of Kanpur, Vikram Singh said that the crude bomb was probably one which goes off on impact and that is just what happened in Colonelganj.
He refused to speculate on whether the bomb went off accidentally or was set off on purpose to create panic.
One of the reasons why the police is unsure whether it is a bomb blast or not is that there are many fire cracker factories located near the "blast" site and police feel it could be a minor incident in one of the factories.
However, eyewitnesses insist it was a crude bomb kept on a bicycle.
A special committee is being formed to look into the incident.

Apex court rules against keeping reserved seats vacant

The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that the seats reserved for backward category students in the state-run higher educational institutions but left vacant due to their paucity must be diverted to the general category students every year.
A five-judge constitutional bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan also held that the cut-off marks for admission for backward category students in a state-run educational institution of higher learning must not be relaxed beyond 10 per cent of the cut-off marks for general category students.