Thirty people were killed in Zimbabwe on Wednesday when two buses collided on a road between the capital Harare and the southeastern town of Rusape, public television reported.
Greeting people on the occasion of Diwali, US President Donald Trump said the festival of lights is a special opportunity to reflect on the bond of friendship between India and America.
In the last two days, more than 20 persons sustained burn injuries while bursting crackers during Diwali festival in the city. Among them, two girls were severely injured and were about to lose their eyesight permanently.
Alvas Education Foundation has announced Alvas Nudisiri Awards, being given to mark the national convention- Alvas Nudisiri-2018, to 12 persons who have contributed for the land, language and culture this year.
A controversy has broken out in Kerala over erasing of a new wall painting at a railway station depicting the 1921 wagon tragedy as part of "Mappila (Muslims) rebellion" with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Wednesday alleging that the Sangh Parivar was behind it.
Corporator and District Congress Committee spokesperson AC Vinay Raj alleged that apart from dismissing the CBI director illegally, Narendra Modi-led Central government has been trying to weaken the RBI by riding on it.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray claimed Wednesday he had learnt that tigress Avni was killed by the BJP-led Maharashtra government to "save" a proposed project of industrialist Anil Ambani in Yavatmal, a charge denied by the corporate group as well as a district official.
Four Indian-American Congressmen from the Democratic party were re-elected to the US House of Representatives and more than a dozen others won various other races across the country in the highly polarised midterm elections held Tuesday.
Opposing the Tippu Jayanthi on November 10, Anti-Tippu Jayanthi Action Committee called for a voluntary Kodagu bandh on November 10. The committee would hold a protest in Somwarpet and Virajpet on November 8 and submit memorandums to tahsildars urging the government to drop celebration of Tipu Jayanthi.
When a woman questioned a person in public for torturing, calling her over mobile, the person collapsed and died on the spot at bus stand here on Wednesday.
