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The accident occurred at about 4:30 a.m. local time, on a highway linking Oaxaca and the neighbouring state of Puebla, said the Oaxaca state’s civil protection coordination on Friday.At least 17 people were killed and about 25 others were injured, who were being treated in hospitals, preliminary reports said.Authorities partially closed the road in both directions, the civil protection coordination added.The passenger bus was reportedly carrying 55 migrants, Xinhua news agency reported.”We deeply regret the fatal accident … in which several migrants died. Our government personnel are already providing support to those affected,” Oaxaca Governor Salomon Jara said on social…

The plan, approved by the Italian government on Thursday night, contains measures to safeguard both the local population and infrastructure from major tremors and volcanic eruptions. It must be nailed down within 60 days, and will be supported with 52.2 million euros ($55.3 million), according to the cabinet.A “stress test” was conducted on Friday at hospitals in towns in the vicinity of the Phlegraean Fields, and an evacuation simulation is scheduled to take place by the end of October, local media reported.The Phlegraean Fields, known as Campi Flegrei in Italian, is a densely-populated area covering about 130 square km west…

The 65-year-old actress only had a one per cent chance of making it through alive after she suffered a nine-day bleed on her brain in 2001, and she admitted she doesn’t “get hired a lot” these days because of the way she needs to manage the ongoing effects of what happened to her.”I’ve become more comfortable with publicly saying what’s really happened to me (now). For a long time I wanted to pretend that I was just fine,” she told People magazine, reports aceshowbiz.com.”I need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep for my brain medication to work so that I don’t…

But 12 years down the line, the one-day format finds itself on a sticky wicket. The T20 format, then still in its infancy days, has now become the ruler of minds of cricket enthusiasts, mostly amongst youngsters, mainly through its proliferation in franchise leagues.Though the 2023 Men’s ODI World Cup is up and running in India, the lack of spectators in the opener between England and New Zealand at Ahmedabad has set off a fresh debate over the future of the format. Rahul Dravid, the India head coach with 344 ODI caps, wishes to see the format thrive and do…

On Friday, India bagged nine medals to move to 95 medals including 22 gold, 34 silver and 39 bronze medals to be firmly perched at the fourth spot.On the penultimate day of competitions, Indiaclaimed one gold, two silver and bronze medals. The men’s recurve archery team redeemed itself after disappointing outings in individual events to claim a silver while the women’s team bounced back from a defeat to Korea to overcome Vietnam in windy and rainy conditions to win a bronze.The second silver came in the card game of bridge in which the men’s team lost to Hong Kong China…

The sickly Yamuna river is already dry. “Thanks to open drains upstream, the river has been reduced to a vast sewage canal. Already you can see foaming and white layer patches on the river bed downstream of the Gokul barrage in Mathura. Yamuna is stinking with filth and toxic effluents,” said environmentalist Devashish Bhattacharya.The Agra region normally gets around 650 mm rain during the four month rainy season, but this year the total rainfall has not been able to cross 500mm. “The rains have been erratic and poorly distributed. The whole of August went dry, when Kharif sowing normally begins,”…

On October 3, Mandal had gone to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Bhagalpur for a CT scan of his granddaughter. He was seen carrying a revolver in his hand, a video of which had gone viral on social media.When someone had asked him to clarify the need for carrying a firearm inside a hospital, he had said: “It is a thing that needs to be held in the hand and not in the waist (Hath Me Lekar Nahi Chalege to Kya Kamar Me Rakhege).”Mandal reached the JD-U office in Patna on Friday to take part in a…

“Will the Delhi Police investigate this too? What is the link between BJP and China?” Ramesh, who is Congress General Secretary Communication Incharge wrote on X. He also shared a graph of India-share of imports from China in the last nine year while quoting the Tradestat data of the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry. His remarks came in the wake of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell in its FIR has alleged that NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha, American Businessman Neville Roy Singham, historian Vijay Parshad and others actively propagated false narratives to discredit the efforts of the Indian government to…

The case pertains to alleged “misleading statements” reportedly made by Gehlot against Shekhawat in connection with the Sanjivani Credit Cooperative Society scam in Rajasthan.Shekhawat was addressing the media on Friday at the BJP office here on Ashok Gehlot’s ‘Vision Document-2030’. In response to a question, Shekhawat said that if Gehlot publicly apologises for the remarks he made against him, he will have to consider forgiving him. “After all, he is quite senior and an esteemed figure in my city,” the minister said.Shekhawat had filed the defamation case against Gehlot in March this year, stating that an investigation was initiated into…

The News reported that police have started raiding various Afghan refugee camps and other areas housing Afghan nationals, taking into custody hundreds of families who did not have any legal documentation to prove their status of stay in PakistanTo further the affirmative action in this regard, General Munir along with caretaker CM of Sindh Maqbool Baq visited Karachi to attend a meeting of the Provincial Apex Committee.The army said in a statement that General Munir was briefed about various issues, including repatriation of illegal foreigners and foreign currency regularisation measures as well as the security of foreign nationals employed on…