New Delhi  - At least 20 pilgrims were killed and 65 injured when a truck carrying them from a Hindu shrine overturned on a road in India's northern state of Punjab on Tuesday, a news report said.

The accident occurred near the Anandpur Sahib town early Tuesday when the truck was returning from the Hindu shrine of Naina Devi in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh state, the IANS news agency reported.

New Delhi, Mar 30 : Concerned over the terror attack on the Lahore police Academy, which claimed the lives of at least 27 policemen, Indian Army on Monday assured that security forces are well equipped to meet any challenges spilling over from across the border.

Talking to the reporters here, Vice Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Noble Thamburaj said: "The Indian armed forces are prepared at all times should there be a spillover of any kind of problems on to our side."

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New Delhi, Mar 30 : Lieutenant General Avinash Chander Soneja, an alumnus of the Sainik School, Kapurthala, has been posted as Director General of Operational Logistics and Strategic Movement at Integrated HQ of Ministry of Defence (Army), New Delhi.

The General Officer had joined Sainik School, Kapurthala (Punjab), in January 1963.

A graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, he had attended the prestigious higher command course at Indian Army''s War College, Mhow.

New Delhi, Mar. 30 : The Indian Government on Monday expressed its sadness and shock over the terror strike on a police academy in Lahore.

"We are deeply saddened and shocked by the events in Lahore. We hope that the Pakistan authorities will be able to resolve the situation soon with minimum loss of life. Our sympathies and condolences go out to the families of those who have been killed. Terrorism is a menace to the entire region," said Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon.

New Delhi, Mar. 30 : Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on Monday welcomed the new US strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, as announced by President Barack Obama last week.

In a statement issued here today on behalf of the Indian Government, Menon said: "We welcome the very clear expression of will to carry through the struggle against extremism in Afghanistan and its roots in Pakistan contained in the new comprehensive US strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan."