BJP's student wing Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) which swept the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) polls for the second consecutive year on 12 September, credited the "Modi wave" and the party's student activism for its victory.

"The schemes which have been launched by the central government benefiting youth such as Make in India, skill development which will generate more employment opportunities, have been welcomed by the youth as what we call as Modi wave, DU voters belonging to the same age group voted for us," ABVP National Secretary, Rohit Chahal said.

"Student activism and fulfillment of the promises that ABVP made last year, also helped us to get this huge mandate.

Refugees seeking asylum boarded a train in Budapest travelling to the border with Austria on 3 September, or at least they were told so. Instead, the train was stopped 35 km west of the capital in Bicske, and asylum seekers were forced into a Hungarian camp. The Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann criticised this move by Hungary in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine.

Putting people in a train who believed they were going somewhere else was uncomfortably reminiscent of Europe's darkest time in history - a reference made to the Nazi deportations of Jews. Hungary has retaliated to this comment and accused Faymann of having made an irresponsible statement terming it a "campaign of lies" against Hungary.

Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab and his Cabinet resigned on Saturday according to a statement issued by the government. The resignations come on the back of Egypt's agriculture minister being arrested last week on corruption charges as well as an ongoing probe against corruption.

Their resignation has been accepted by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. However, Sisi has asked the PM and Cabinet to continue to function in a caretaker capacity until a new government is constituted. Egypt's outgoing oil minister has been tasked with overseeing the formation of a new government.

Egypt will go to the polls in October while the results will be declared in December.

A top Lashker-e-Taiba militant, carrying a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, was on 12 September killed in an encounter with police and army in Pulwama district, marking a major success for the security forces.

The slain militant Irshad Ganie, a resident of Kakapora of Pulwama, was wanted for killing of eight armymen in Hyderpora in June 2013 besides several other attacks of army and police, official sources said.

Listed as 'A+' category (most wanted) militant by the police, Irshad was killed in an encounter that broke out at village Begum Bagh in Kakapora area.

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Eighty-nine people were killed and nearly 100 injured when mining explosives stored in a building went off in Petlawad town in Jhabua of Madhya Pradesh on 12 September. The building in which the explosives were stored and an adjacent restaurant were destroyed and several houses damaged, officials said.

Rajendra Kasawa, who has the licence to use explosives for digging wells in rocky areas, stored them in huge quantities in the residential building having two shops, close to the busy Sethia Restaurant in the new bus stand area, a police official said.

Many daily wage labourers were seated near the restaurant when the explosion occurred. Many were inside the restaurant too, a witness said.