20 killed, 25 injured in Bangalore collision

BANGALORE, June 30: Twenty people were killed and 25 others injured in a head-on collision between a crowded van carrying a marriage party ...

BANGALORE, June 30: Twenty people were killed and 25 others injured in a head-on collision between a crowded van carrying a marriage party and a truck on Hoskote-Kolar road, near Bangalore, last night.

Police said eight people, including four men, three women and a child, were killed on the spot and the rest succumbed to injuries either in hospitals or on their way there. The injured have been admitted to the government Victoria hospital and NIMHANS here, police said.

Rains paralyse normal life in Kochi

KOCHI: Incessant rains during the last 24 hours submerged several parts of the city disrupting traffic, both rail and road, besides affecting several families in the low-lying areas. Though no loss of life or property has been reprorted so far, normal life has been badly hit in most parts of the city as the seeping rain water has entered hundreds of houses and shops even in the heart of the city including the town hall. Several parts of the national highway along a 20-km strecth between Edappally and Vytilla in the suburbs has been flooded disrupting traffic while most of the incoming and outgoing trains are runing late.

Sikkim, Kalimpong cut off by landslides

SILIGURI: The Himalayan state of Sikkim and Kalimpong sub-division of Darjeeling district were virtually cut off from the rest of the country following landslides triggered by 60 hours of incessant rain, official sources said today. Toy train services in Darjeeling were withdrawn following a series of landslips. The slips at Paglajhora near Coronation bridge on the national highway 31-A, the arterial road link for Kalimpong and Sikkim, caused serious damage.