September 23, 2025 07:28 AM IST First published on: Sep 23, 2025 at 07:28 AM ISTThree persons were killed and one injured when a transistor bomb exploded in a narrow lane in New Delhi, near the Old Delhi Railway Station. While two of those killed have been identified as Gulab Rauje (25), a rickshaw puller who lived in a jhuggi in the area, and Ram Singh (24), a “kabadi” seller from Chandni Chowk, the third man is yet to be identified. According to explosive experts, the bombs, encased in transistor shells, were similar to the ones which rocked the capital and neighbouring states in the second week of May, killing about 90 people and injuring over 100 others.No BJP-Akali allianceThe Bharatiya Janata Party president, Atal Behari Vajpayee, denied reports that his party has decided to support the Akali Dal (L) in the September 25 elections in Punjab. The BJP president said in a statement, “the news item is totally baseless. I am convinced the report has been concocted with the intention of harming the interest of the BJP in the forthcoming elections.” He said that there was no joint meeting of some senior workers of BJP and Akali Dal (L) at Sangrur.Anti-Hindi stirAdvertisementOver 3,000 Dravida Kazhagam (DK) volunteers were taken into custody at various places in Tamil Nadu when they took out processions to railway stations with the intention of erasing the Hindi lettering on signboards there. Those arrested include the DK general secretary K Veeramani, M Mannan (both at Madras), the treasurer, K M Kuppusamy (at Trichy), and the Propaganda Secretary, Selvendran (at Tanjore). More than 200 DK volunteers (including six women) were arrested in Ooty for violating the prohibitory orders in force. Veeramani and 52 others were arrested on the Gandhi Irwin Bridges as they were proceeding towards Egmore from Periyarthidal.France sinks protest shipThe French Premier, Laurent Fabius, admitted that France was responsible for sinking the anti-nuclear protest ship, Rainbow Warrior, in New Zealand and that French agents were ordered to carry out the act. Fabius, in a statement to the press at his office, said Bernard Tricot, who carried out the government’s initial investigation of the incident, was lied to and confirmed numerous reports that the bombing was done by the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE), France’s main espionage agency.