Mumbai, Sep 6 : The Indian rupee breached the 72 per US dollar mark for the first time on Thursday. Around 1 p.m., the rupee traded around 72.05 per dollar, against Wednesday's closing of 71.76 per greenback.

According to analysts, the fall in the rupee is due to the Sino-US trade tensions along with high crude oil prices and outflow of foreign funds.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said external factors have caused the depreciation of the rupee.



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Imphal (PTI): A four-year-old boy was killed and his father injured in a bomb blast in Manipur's Noney district on Saturday, police said.

The incident happened in Taolingpung village in Khoupum when the toddler and his father were clearing bushes outside their house, they said.

The bomb, which was hidden in the bushes, went off when they struck it accidentally, police said.

The father, 40, is at present undergoing treatment at a hospital in Imphal, around 95 km from their village, they said.

A case was registered, and an investigation started to ascertain the origin of the bomb, police said.