Indian cities on alert

Mumbai and other metros of India yesterday were put on high alert after large quantities of explosive were found outside a railway station in Ambala, Haryana on Thursday.
Following the alert, security has been stepped up in all the metros. There's tight security at vital installations and police have been asked to carry out surprise checks.
About five kilos of RDX, two timers and five detonators were found in a car parked outside the Ambala Cantonment railway station on Thursday morning. Intelligence sources said the RDX was not yet in IED (Improvised Explosive Detonator) form; it was not connected to any detonator or timer and so the car seemed to have been a carriage vehicle bound for a terror attack.
Police later said the large quantity of explosives recovered from a car was meant to be used in an attack by militants on Delhi.
Delhi police official Arun Kampani told reporters they had received intelligence that Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Indian-administered Kashmir had planned to "strike in Delhi" with the help of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), a group said to be active in Indian Punjab.
They said the attack was timed ahead of the upcoming Diwali festival.
Sixteen people were killed and 76 others were injured in a bomb attack on the high court in Delhi last month.
"Investigations found that the explosives were meant for BKI and to be used in Delhi," Kampani said.
The "exchange" of explosives was planned in Ambala, when the police received information on the car, he said.
Police also said that a box of sweets was found in the car, which showed that it had been purchased from the Jammu region in Indian-administered Kashmir. Two newspapers from the region were also found in the car.
No arrests have been made so far, and it is still unclear who drove the car to the car park at Ambala railway station.
Indian intelligence agencies believe Babbar Khalsa has the backing of Pakistan's spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).