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While declining comment on India’s surgical strike on militants in Myanmar, the US has asked India and Pakistan to take steps to reduce tensions and move toward resuming dialogue.

“I don’t have a comment on that specific operation,” US State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke told reporters Friday when asked if the US supported or was concerned over India’s cross border strike in Myanmar, a move that has raised hackles in Pakistan.

But “we encourage India and Pakistan to take steps to reduce tensions and to move towards resuming talks,” he said.

A family was devastated after a three-year-old boy killed himself while playing with his mother’s handgun.

After finding the gun at his home near Cincinnati, the boy, identified as Marques Green, shot and fatally wounded himself in the chest, the BBC reported

In a 911 audiotape release by police in Ohio, the boy’s mother Elizabeth Green is heard screaming and saying that her son just shot himself and that she is not getting a pulse.

She is heard noting that “The gun is mine. It is in the house, I carry it in my purse, I laid it down. We just got home.”

She is known for portraying outgoing and expressive characters on-screen but actress Shraddha Kapoor says in real life she is a reserved person.

The 26-year-old actress made lukewarm debut with Amitabh Bachchan starrer “Teen Patti” in 2010 but she got fame two years back with her stint as a budding singer in “Aashiqui 2”, opposite rumoured boyfriend Aditya Roy Kapur.

Shraddha, however, feels fame has not changed her reserved self much and she becomes a bundle of nerves whenever she is in public eye.

Twenty two pilgrims, including six children, were killed on Saturday when the multi utility vehicle (MUV) they were travelling in fell into Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh, police said.

The accident took place in East Godavari district when the vehicle fell off Dowleswaram bridge across the river in the early hours of the day.

The dead, all relatives, include nine women and six children. The rescue workers saved a 13-year-old child.

The victims from Achutapuram village of Visakhapatnam district were returning after a pilgrimage to Tirupati.

India captain Virat Kohli along with the team management decided to declare the first innings on their overnight score of 462/6 and put Bangladesh in to bat in the one-off cricket Test here on early Saturday morning.

Rain had curtailed play on the first and third day and had totally washed out the second day leading India to declare and give their bowlers and fielders some match practice. Though the morning has been sunny, rain has also been predicted for Day 4.

An IIT Kharagpur B Tech student who topped across all departments in the institute, has rejected a lucrative job offer from an MNC to remain in academics.

Computer science and engineering student Sikhar Patranabis has scored 9.87 and passed out as the highest-ranked graduate this year. He is tipped to get the President of India Gold Medal.

The lure of a high-paying pre-placement job offer from Microsoft, however, could not distract this talent away from his passion for research.

Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide at the end of the second world war but was spirited out of Germany by the Nazis in a massive cover up to make the world fall a victim to “duplicitous deception,” a noted British historian has claimed.

Gerrard Williams claims that official records confirming the deaths of Hitler and his wife Eva Braun are seriously flawed as the Russians’ failed to announce they had found the body of the infamous dictator.

“I believe that in April 1945 the real Hitler along with Eva Braun were spirited out of the bunker where they escaped.

South Korea President Park Geun-hye has postponed her upcoming trip to the United States owing to the outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in her country.

Park, in a telephonic conversation with US President Barack Obama, said that she hopes to reschedule her visit at the earliest possible date, Xinhua reported.

She also visited the central headquarters of MERS control in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, to take stock of the situation.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led municipal corporations of attempting to convert Delhi into a heap of garbage and being on top among the list of most corrupt organisations.

AAP passed on the blame for the woes of sanitation workers in Delhi to the BJP and the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.

Terming the civic bodies of Delhi as the world’s most corrupt organisations, the AAP demanded a probe into the role of the party over the issue of non-clearance of salary dues of sanitation workers.

Telangana became the first state in India to bestow on investors the right to get clearance of their projects within a set time-limit with the unveiling of industrial policy framework on Friday.

Aimed at making Telangana an ideal destination for investment, the new policy promises corruption-free and hassle-free business environment.

With the slogan of ‘Make in Telangana’, the state government is inviting entrepreneurs to innovate, incubate and incorporate in the state.

The West Bengal Assembly on Friday passed a bill amending the West Bengal Municipal Act to reduce the time period for objections against creating new civic bodies to 30 days from the existing 90 days.

The bill amends the sections 5, 6 and 9 of the act that deal with abolishing or altering the limits of a municipal area.

“To cater to the need of greater physical infrastructure and to ensure improved service delivery as well as to support new industries, it is preferable to municipalise the areas.

Taking lessons from its humiliating defeat in Delhi assembly elections, the BJP leadership has decided to involve its state unit in every major decision – from selecting candidates to whether to announce a chief ministerial candidate – in the upcoming Bihar polls.

“From seat sharing to ticket distribution, the decision will be taken only after consultation with state unit,” said a top BJP official, who did not want to be identified.

Around 13,500 Syrian refugees, mostly women, children and the elderly, fled to Turkey over the past week, escaping clashes near the border, the Hurriyet newspaper reported citing the Turkish government.

Turkish authorities allowed refugees to enter between June 3 and June 10 through the Akcakale border crossing in the southeastern Turkish province of Sanliurfa, foreign ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic said.

Queen Letizia of Spain on Friday said throwing away food at a time when more than 800 million people are suffering from starvation is “unacceptable” behaviour, Spanish news agency Efe reported.

The queen’s remarks were made during her speech at the Rome headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) after she was named as the organisation’s special ambassador for nutrition earlier on Friday.

In her speech, Letizia said starting from her first day in office, she would “serve the objectives of this UN agency in the most effective manner”.

Come Monday, Delhi residents will have to pay more for power as the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission hiked the power tariff by up to six percent.

Consumers of BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Ltd (BYPL), which control 70 percent of Delhi’s total area, will pay six percent more.

In areas where Tata Power (TPDDL) gives electricity, the tarrif has been hiked by 4 percent. In New Delhi Municipal Council area, the charge has been increased by up to 5 percent.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday condoled the death of 15 people, who were electrocuted in a bus in Rajasthan’s Tonk district.

“The bus incident at Tonk, Rajasthan is very heart-rending. My thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives,” Modi said in a message.

Extending her condolences to the families of the deceased, Congress president Sonia Gandhi hoped immediate relief and compensation were being provided.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that three years since outbreaks of inter-communal violence in Rakhine State in Myanmar, more than 416,000 people continue to need humanitarian assistance.

This includes almost 140,000 displaced people living in dire conditions in camps and many others without citizenship in isolated villages, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Friday at a daily news briefing here, Xinhua reported.

The Syrian army, supported by the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, took control of new territories in the Syrian region of al-Qalamoun, north of Damascus and on the border with Lebanon.

Lebanese television station Al-Manar, mouthpiece of the Shiite Hezbollah group on Friday, confirmed that members of Al Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda with ties to Islamic State, have retreated from the advancing forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, Efe reported.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday met employees of Delhi municipal corporations who have struck work to protest against non-payment of salaries for the last three months.

Gandhi met the protesting workers at East Delhi Municipal Corporation headquarters at Patparganj here. Delhi Congress Committee president Ajay Maken also accompanied the party vice president during his interaction with the striking staff.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed will inaugurate the three-day annual festival of Ladakh, Singhey Khababs Sindhu on Friday.

The festival, which is celebrated on the banks of the Indus River, gives different glimpses of Ladakh, its local traditions and culture.

The celebrations were first held in 2001 to promote Ladakh as a tourist destination. (ANI)

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Pakistan should deal with India in “a mature, well considered, cool manner” since that is likely to get more traction in the world today than even the most apoplectic indignation, a daily said on Friday.

Daily Times said in an editorial “Dangerous escalation” that Pakistan and India seem to have descended once again into one of their periodic bouts of provocative statements met by equally fierce responses.

“The current round of tit-for-tat statements and actions seems to have started with the Indian defence minister’s statement of countering terrorism with terrorism.

The search for the missing Dornier aircraft of the Indian Coast Guard has entered its fourth day on Friday.

Fifteen ships belonging to both the Coast Guard and the Indian Navy are a part of the search mission, in addition to the advanced Boeing Poseidon P81 surveillance aircrafts, said reports.

The aircraft CG-791 was on a routine surveillance off the coast of Chennai on Monday evening when it lost contact.

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) cases in South Korea have increased to 126 on Friday, authorities said.

Four more people tested positive for the MERS virus on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported. All of them contracted the virus from the 14th patient from Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul.

According to officials, the 14th patient, called the ‘super spreader’, has infected more than 60 people at the Samsung hospital.

Nine people have so far died because of the virus in the country.

–IANS

The flood like situation in Assam, caused by incessant rainfall, has affected over three lakh people in more than 700 villages spread across 15 districts of the state.

A Low Flood Situation alert has reportedly been issued in parts of Karimganj, Dhubri, Sivsagar and Karimganj districts by the State Disaster Management Authority for the next 24 to 48 hours.

The worst affected districts in the state are Lakhimpur and Sonitpur, where more than 50,000 people have been rendered homeless.