A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper on Tuesday foiled a weapon snatching attempt here, police said.

Three persons using chilli powder attempted to snatch away the weapon from the CRPF trooper in Humhama area near the Srinagar International Airport, a police officer said.

A man and his wife who were attacked here in Uttar Pradesh while they were asleep outside their house have died, police said on Tuesday.

The incidents of cow vigilantism are not acceptable and it's for the states to ensure that such occurrences don't happen, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said today. The Supreme Court also warned against linking mob violence to religion or caste and said "a victim is a victim".

Uganda's professional boxer Mustafa Katende collapsed and died during a training session here.

Ayub Kalule, one of the veteran trainers at the Police Training School Gym in Kibuli, told Xinhua that Katende was not feeling well but decided to do a small workout since he was preparing for a professional fight.

NASA has invited citizen scientists to help them track mosquitos known to carry and spread diseases like Zika, West Nile Virus and malaria to create new forecast models that can predict the spread of these diseases.

Facebook has announced it is shutting down its fitness app "Moves", Android app "Hello" and anonymous social media app "tbh".

Facebook is deprecating these apps due to low usage, the company wrote in a blog post late on Monday.

105 year-old environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka on Monday visited St. Aloysius College of the city.

She was here to participate in ‘Vrukshanjali’, an environment conservation programme being conducted in the college. Later, she planted two saplings – Kadamba and Suragi species- and watered them at St. Mother Teresa park on the premises of the Aloysius PU College.

Burka controversy cropped up in the government degree college at Koppa as the ABVP activists opposed the Muslim girls wearing burka in the college.