WhatsApp hoax triggers lynching of two others in Maharashtra's Aurangabad.
Some eyewitnesses said the driver, who is among the injured, tried to speed across the level crossing even when onlookers tried to draw his attention to the approaching train.
A powerful explosion on Saturday ripped through a crowded market in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan, killing at least 14 people and injuring over 20 others, officials said.
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a packed church during Sunday service, killing three people and injuring dozens in central Nigeria's Jos city that has been the centre of a sectarian and ethnic violence.
Two persons, including a child, died and another person was injured in a bomb blast at Mahabbatpur village near India-Bangladesh border, the police said on Wednesday.
Aruna Tanwar enters Taekwondo quarters.
The 23-year-old limped off the field with a hamstring injury as South Africa lost to Bangladesh on June 2 and missed the subsequent defeat to India and the rained-out clash with the West Indies.
On Wednesday, Bengal's own daughter she firmly pitched herself as, was sworn in as the chief minister of the turbulent state for the third successive term amid raging fires of political violence and a rampaging pandemic.
"We're playing a strong team in India, and as a team, we know we're not good enough at the moment and we have to turn it around."
The number of those rescued has gone up to 25, with five more persons being pulled alive out from the debris since Monday night, police said. The dead include 11 children, aged between two to 15 years, an official said.
Prominent eunuch community 'gurus', who adopt transgender children abandoned by their families, died in the fire that occurred at a meeting of the community in east Delhi on Sunday.
Amid growing demands for his resignation, Kumar told the MHRD officials that efforts were being made to facilitate semester registration for 'willing' students.
A bomb blast ripped through a mosque within a Sufi shrine at Nowshera in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 10 persons and injuring 30 others. The powerful blast targeted the mosque inside Akhun Punjo Baba mazar (shrine) in Akbarpura area of Nowshera, nearly 15 km from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa capital Peshawar.Scores of people were offering Friday prayers at the mosque while hundreds had gathered to take food from a 'langar' or community kitchen.
The man, identified as 'Abz' is believed to have been the ringleader of the trio that carried out the horror attack
The Indian Mujahideen is active, but weaker, and its remnants, which have so far escaped detection and arrest by the police, probably have a reduced capability. That is the conclusion possible on the basis of the details available so far, regarding the explosion in Varanasi, on Tuesday, says B Raman
Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire twice overnight by pounding civilian hamlets and Indian forward posts with 120 mm and 82 mm mortar bombs along the LoC in Poonch district, drawing retaliation from the Army.
A four-year-old boy, resident of a village located 60 km away from Bihar's capital Patna, has been accused of murder.Alok Pandey, who is yet to join a primary school, has been charged by the police in Bhojpur district for assaulting and seriously injuring his neighbour, who died on his way to the hospital.The case has been registered despite the fact that as per Section 82 of the Indian Penal Code, the police cannot file a criminal case against a child below the age of seven.
In a major ceasefire violation along the Line of Control, Pakistan Army on Saturday targeted 22 Border Security Force posts near the international border in R S Pura sector and Arania sub sector, killing two civilians and injuring four.
The blaze broke out on the first floor of the Prospect Avenue apartment in the Bronx borough of the city and spread quickly, officials said, adding that the cause of the blaze is under investigation.
The terror mail, traced to a residential complex in Navi Mumabi, had claimed responsibility for Tuesday's blast at a crowded bathing ghat in Varanasi that left a child dead and 37 others injured. The five-page email sent by Indian Mujahideen has been sent using an unsecured WiFi of Airtel Broadband belonging to the two, official sources said
Goa police investigating an allegation against famous pop singer Remo Fernandes that he threatened a minor girl, have sought CCTV footage of the ward at GMCH.
The death of their only son due to roads being blocked for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's convoy in Kanpur on July 3 has provoked the parents to make a humble appeal to United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi. "We have sought to draw Sonia Gandhi's attention to the plight of common citizens during such VVIP visits," Aman's mother Usha Sharma Khan, a junior employee in the Kanpur based Ordnance factory, said.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said her government had to pass a legislation against such crimes as the Centre was unwilling to take the initiative.
Children under 12 years of age will no longer be allowed to take part in formation of human pyramids during 'Dahi Handi' celebrations, which are integral part of Janmashtami festivities in Maharashtra.
In Jaffrabad, Maujpur, Yamuna Vihar, Chand Bagh, Mustafabad and Bhajanpura, which were among the areas worst hit by the communal violence, there were more vehicles and people on the roads than in the last five days.
One of the women later succumbed to injuries in the hospital.
Twin grenade attacks in Pakistan's biggest city on the eve of the country's independence day left at least three persons dead and over 40 injured.
The man was formally arrested "on suspicion of a terrorist crime through murder", Karin Rosander, a communications director at the Swedish prosecution authority, said early on Saturday.
Sania won the 2016 Australian Open women's doubles title with Martina Hingis before announcing their split in August.
Jason Holder insists Andre Russell's fitness is a gamble worth taking, after the all-rounder pulled up with another injury in their eight-wicket defeat by England.
The aim of the Varanasi blast was not to cause a large number of casualties, but to create panic and remind India about the existence of Indian Mujahideen. The sources pointed out that the men who planted the bomb were hired to do so; they were not members of the IM.The IM wanted to ensure that the whole country gets a rude reminder of their presence, but was wary of leaving a trail that could lead back to the terror outfit.
Security agencies were examining CCTV footage at the site of the blast at a Ganga ghat in Varanasi which left a child dead and 37 injured even as a forensic team from Agra collected samples from the spot.
'All political parties have exploited the police. The current government at the Centre is blatant and unapologetic about it.'
He told police the boy was accidentally knocked unconscious on Thursday at the house in David Street, Lalor, where he had been staying with the toddler's family.
Siddhartha Kaul, president of SOS Children's Villages International that has been involved in earthquake relief work in Nepal, speaks to Rashme Sehgal.
At least two militants have been killed and 13 injured as the Taliban launched a wave of attacks on Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Monday. The attack happened as some members of President Hamid Karzai's cabinet were being sworn in.
Hospital authorities said of the deceased at the GTB, at least nine received gun shots. One of the deceased is also a woman, they said.
Indian-origin parents of a 19-month-old baby, who died of severe head injuries after his babysitter got angry and dumped him on the floor, have been arrested and charged in the US state of Connecticut.
