Chandigarh, Sept 21 : Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Sunday said that extraordinary laws to deal with terror are prone to misuse.

Jammu, Sept 21 : Hundreds of school children lighted candles and sang hymns to mark World Peace Day in Jammu on Sunday.

In 1981 the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution declaring September 21 as ‘World Peace Day’.

The students and their teachers prayed for peace in strife-torn Kashmir valley and the world at large.

Sister Phyllis, principal of a public school in Jammu stressed the need to maintain peace.

Bhubaneswar, Sept 21 : Relief work has been speeded up in Orissa, which is facing floods by one of India''s largest rivers killing 16 people and forcing evacuation of some 200,000 at the weekend.

Large parts of the coastal Orissa were inundated after authorities were forced to open dozens of sluice gates of a dam on the Mahanadi River following heavy rain in the catchment’s area.

Flood victims said though they have been saved from drowning, but all their belongings and wealth were destroyed.

Jammu, Sept 21 : Security forces busted two militant hideouts and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from them in Poonch and Reasi districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.

New Delhi, Sept 21 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday demanded that Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma who died battling terrorists during an encounter in Jamia Nagar should be bestowed with the Ashok Chakra.

BJP leader V K Malhotra said, "We demand Ashok Chakra for this brave officer who died fighting the militants."

"The Government should also immediately announce a financial package for his family," added Malhotra.

Sharma, who was 41 years old, served the Delhi Police for 19 years before falling to the bullet of heavily armed terrorists in a fierce gunfight at the Batla house in Jamia Nagar in New Delhi on September 19.

Srinagar, Sept 21 : Preparations are in full swing to elect a new Legislative Assembly in Jammu and Kashmir with poll officials working round the clock to prepare voters'' identity cards in time.