The teams engaged in rescuing eight persons who remain trapped in a partially collapsed SLBC tunnel have began cutting the part of Tunnel Boring Machine and other obstacles that are preventing them from going to the spot where they can search for the individuals.

Afghanistan stunned England with a commanding performance in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, securing a crucial victory that knocked the defending champions out of the tournament.Ibrahim Zadran's majestic 177 and pacer Azmatullah Omarzai's fifer trumped Joe Root's masterful hundred, as the brave Afghanistan registered a thrilling 8-run win to knock a largely-insipid England out of the Champions Trophy here on Wednesday.

Two young men aged 19 and 20 from Bihar's Muzaffarpur town on Wednesday drowned in the Alaknanda river in Srinagar area of Uttarakhand's Pauri district, the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) said.

 A fire broke out at a cinema hall in Select Citywalk Mall here on Wednesday evening due to a short circuit during the screening of a movie, an official said.

A 14-year-old student of a municipal school died after suffering a heart attack at a well-known theme park where he had gone on a trip with others pupils in Maharashtra's Raigad district, police said on Wednesday.

After being trapped for over four days following partial collapse of SLBC tunnel, the fate of the eight individuals remains unknown, even as Telangana Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday assured that the rescue operation will be completed in two days with increased pace of action.

A 36-year-old domestic help was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attacking his former employer, an elderly woman, with a sharp object in Sector 36 here over a dispute related to salary, police said.

 A 26-year-old man accused of mobile snatching escaped from police custody while undergoing treatment at a government hospital here but was nabbed from Delhi as he was trying to flee to his native place in Bihar, police said here on Wednesday.