England skipper Joe Root won the toss and opted to bat against India in the opener of the five-Test rubber at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground here on Wednesday.

DMK leader M.K. Stalin on Wednesday said he was shocked to learn about the reported death of 21 party cadres in shock and grief following the hospitalization of party leader M. Karunanidhi.

 A car rammed into a garage after colliding with a bike when its driver lost control over the vehicle at Kalsank near Padubidri on Wednesday morning.

Efforts are on to rescue a three-year-old girl who fell into a 110-feet deep borewell on Tuesday afternoon in Bihar's Munger district. Sanno, who came to visit her grandfather Umesh Nandan's home in Murgiachak area, was playing outside the house where the borewell was being dug. A disaster response team is carrying out the operation to rescue the girl by digging a parallel hole, say reports.

Mangaluru City and Mangaluru South Block Congress Committee staged a protest condemning the delay in flyover work at Pumpwell here on Wednesday.

A man was electrocuted after his mobile phone that he was speaking on while it was connected to a charger got burnt due to suspected high voltage at Vagupalli under Kanigiri mandal in Prakasham district.

K. Anvar Sadath, vice chairman and executive director of Kerala Infrastructure and Technology For Education (KITE), has become the first Indian to receive The International Contributions Award.

Over 100 Maratha activists staged a noisy 'jail-bharo' agitation at Azad Maidan here on Wednesday, marking the intensified phase of their ongoing fortnight-long campaign for job quotas for the community.