Egypt faced off against Uruguay in their opening game of the FIFA World Cup 2018 on Friday and despite a brave performance, went down fighting to the South Americans as Jose Giminez scored the only goal of the match in the 89th minute. The Pharaohs opted to start without the recently-recovered Mohamed Salah and put in a fine shift in defence as they almost kept a clean sheet till the very end against an attack consisting of Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani.

Argentine superstar Lionel Messi said he regretted having squandered a second-half penalty try that could have led his team to victory over Iceland in Group D action on Saturday at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Croatia went to the top of Group D in the FIFA World Cup following their 2-0 easy victory over Nigeria at the Kaliningrad Stadium here on Saturday.

Himachal Pradesh was again jolted by a low intensity earthquake on Sunday, an official said here. There were no reports of casualties or damages.

The Federation of All India Trucks Owners Association has decided to conduct indefinite strike from June 18 against the central government for hiking the petroleum products and increasing the third party insurance premium.

A young man was killed on Saturday in clashes with security forces post Eid prayers in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag town, police said.

An Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) personnel who had been to combing operation against suspected naxals died of cardiac arrest amidst the forest at Madappadi village in the Kilar Male reserve forest in Dakshina Kannada- Kodagu border on Saturday.

MLC C M Ibrahim said that as Parashuram Waghmore admitted that he has killed journalist Gauri Lankesh, the SIT officials should find out the force and persons behind such youth.