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New Delhi, July 26 : Founder secretary general of the Federation of Associations of Senior Citizens of India (FASCI), V. S. Bhat, died today at the age of 85.

Family sources said that Bhat, who was ailing for the past few days, passed away at his Sarvodaya Enclave house in New Delhi.

He leaves behind his wife and two sons. The elder son, Ravindra Bhat, is a judge of the Delhi High Court.

V. S. Bhat had worked in many important centre statistical organisations. He joined in the late 1940s, when the Indian Statistical Service was started. He was deputy director general when he retired in 1982.

Lucknow, July 26 : Wildlife authorities in Lucknow have seized four wild animal skins, including that of a tiger and two gazelles.

The skins were recovered from forests bordering the Manikpur-Chitrakoot belt on Friday, they said, adding that the smugglers planned to sell the skins in the international market.

Bangalore, July 25 : A string of nine bomb blasts one after another shook Karnataka’s capital during the busy lunch hour today, leaving two killed and 20 injured.

The crude bombs, concealed near refugee camps and roadside stuffed with nuts and bolts, exploded between 1.30 p. m. and 1.45 p. m. at Adugodi, Madivala, Nayandahalli, Mysore Road, Richmond Circle, Pantharapalya and Vittal Mallya Road.

Two persons were killed and 12 injured in the blasts, Home Minister Shivraj Patil said in New Delhi.

Indore, July 25 : Not many people may know that some Indian scriptures, which were originally written in Sanskrit or Pali languages, are available in various foreign languages besides English. A visit to a special library here reveals that and much more.

Aziz Indori''s private library, located in Khajrana area of Indore, boasts of several rare volumes and publications of Hindu epics such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in Portuguese, Urdu, Arabic and Persian languages.

The eight decades old library has a huge collection of over 11,000 ancient books written in Hindi, Urdu, English and Persian.

It is claimed that these ancient epics may not be available elsewhere in these languages.

Kanpur, July 25 : Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Sriprakash Jaiswal today said that the Centre had forewarned the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh governments about Bangalore and Hyderabad being possible terrorist targets.

“The Intelligence Bureau had received inputs that terrorists could target the cybercities of Hyderabad and Bangalore. Both the state governments were told to be on high alert,” he said.

Jaiswal said the main aim of the serial blasts in Bangalore was to “spread terror.”

The Centre is in touch with the state government and ready to offer all possible help, he added.