Bhubaneswar: Low pressure-induced rain lashed Odisha Tuesday which dampened Durga Puja festivities in the state, while three persons were killed in separate places when lightning struck them. Gusty surface wind uprooted three huge Durga puja pandal gates in different places but there was no report of any casualty, police said. While all parts of Odisha received rainfall,...

Indore: Rilee Rossouw's sizzling century was complemented beautifully by South African bowlers as the visitors beat India by 49 runs in the third T20 here Tuesday. Invited to bat, Rossouw smashed 100 not out off 48 deliveries, while Quinton de Kock scored a blistering half-century (68 off 43 balls) to power South Africa to a mammoth 227...

Pauri: Heavy casualties were feared as a bus carrying around 45-50 members of a marriage party fell into a gorge in the Bironkhal area of Uttarakhand's Pauri district Tuesday evening, the disaster control room here said. The bus was on its way to a village in Bironkhal from Laldhang when it met with the accident near the...

Dhaka: At least three Rohingya women were drowned and 46 others rescued when a trawler carrying a group of people trying to illegally migrate to Malaysia capsized in the Bay of Bengal Tuesday, Bangladeshi authorities said. The trawler was on its way to Malaysia but sank near Teknaf in Bangladesh's Cox Bazar District, due to strong currents,...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court Tuesday granted bail to former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in a money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The court, however, stayed the order till October 13 to enable the ED to file an appeal against bail. Two components of credits in the account of a trust controlled by...

Seoul: North Korea Tuesday fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, forcing Japan to issue evacuation notices and suspend trains during the flight of the nuclear-capable weapon that could reach the US territory of Guam and beyond. The launch was the most provocative weapons demonstration by North Korea this year as...

Indore: Left-hander Rilee Rossouw smashed an unbeaten 100 off 48 balls to fire South Africa to a formidable 227 for three in the third T20 International as Indian bowlers once again faltered under pressure here Tuesday. T20 World Cup-bound Harshal Patel (0/49) continued to leak a lot of runs in a forgettable night for all four Indian...

Uttarkashi: Ten mountaineers were killed in an avalanche at Mount Draupadi Ka Danda - II peak in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district Tuesday, officials said. A team of 34 trainee mountaineers and seven instructors from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) was caught in an avalanche while returning, NIM Principal Colonel Amit Bisht said. Ten bodies were sighted, of...

New Delhi: The launch of 5G services in India will be a "catalytic event" in terms of scaling up the technology and enabling its proliferation in other developing economies across Latin America, Southeast Asia and Middle East, chipset major Qualcomm said Tuesday. Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon said the launch of 5G technology in India will...

New Delhi: Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari Tuesday said appropriate "non-escalatory" measures were taken in response to recent Chinese air activities along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh and that return to status quo ante prior to the standoff was key for the situation to become normal in the region. The Chief of Air...