India, May 6 -- Punjab was rocked by two blasts on Tuesday night, just hours and about 90 kilometres apart, triggering an alarm in the state.

A blast occurred outside the Punjab Frontier headquarters of the Border Security Force (BSF) at the mouth of the main city in Jalandhar, in an area which is called BSF Chowk. Just hours after that, another blast rocked near the army cantonment, this time 90 kilometres away in Amritsar, sending security agencies, already on their toes after the Jalandhar incident, into a frenzy.

The blast outside BSF's Punjab Frontier headquarters in Jalandhar happened on Tuesday evening in a two-wheeler parked on the roadside. The authorities cordoned off the whole area as senior police officials rushed to the spo...