Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said that a few more political parties were likely to join the opposition INDIA bloc during its upcoming meeting in Mumbai.

An eight-month pregnant woman was strangled to death by her parents before her appearance at a court here in Uttar Pradesh to testify in a kidnapping and rape case, police said on Sunday.

A Dalit community youth was allegedly beaten to death by a group of people over an old enmity in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district, police on Sunday said, adding they have arrested eight persons so far in this connection.

A 40-year-old man died on the spot after a KSRTC bus collided with the two-wheeler he was traveling on as pillion rider near the New Bus Stand on Gokul Road in the city.

A United States Marine Corps aircraft crashed on a north Australian island Sunday, killing three Marines and injuring 20 during a multi-nation training exercise, officials said.

Three had been confirmed dead on Melville Island and five of the 23 on board had been flown in serious conditions 80 kilometers (50 miles) to the mainland city of Darwin for hospital treatment after the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft crashed around 9:30 a.m. local time, a corps statement said.

 In an incident of alleged honour killing, a man in Totli village of Kolar taluk murdered his teenage daughter for loving a youngster belonging to a different caste. The man father has been taken into custody by the local police.

A 16-year-old student in the city, who was riding pillion with his friend on a scooter, was killed in a collision between a tipper and the two-wheeler at Adyar on the outskirts of Mangaluru on Saturday.

A homeless man was killed in Kolkata's Beniapukur area in the early hours of Sunday after a mini truck hit a parked vehicle, which went on to crash him when he was sleeping on the footpath, police said.