DHAKA: Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a garment factory in an industrial district of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police and an industry association official said on Thursday.

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee: An 83-year-old nun and two fellow protesters were convicted Wednesday of interfering with national security when they broke into the primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium in the U.S.

WASHINGTON: In a suspected hate crime, an 82-year-old Sikh has been brutally assaulted with an iron rod outside a gurdwara in the US and was in a serious condition, as police arrested one person in connection with the incident.

CHANDIGARH: Sanaullah Ranjay, a Pakistani convict brutally attacked by an inmate in Jammu jail last Friday, died on Thursday morning at PGIMER here.

MANALI: Thirty-two people were killed and twenty-five others injured while several people were unaccounted for after an overloaded and speeding private bus fell into the strong currents of river Beas in Jhiri village, around 20kms from the district headquarters of Kullu in Himachal Pradesh, on Wednesday afternoon.

Aleader rightly remarked that former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa is a villain for the BJP, but a hero for himself and the Congress. Though Yeddyurappa's newly-founded Karnataka Janata Party has come a-cropper, the party leader has succeeded in decimating the BJP in the state. Yeddyurappa had two targets in mind when he founded the party last December — to decimate the BJP in Karnataka and emerge as kingmaker, if not the king himself.

JAISALMER: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a report from the police in the case where a child's finger was chopped off while removing the intra-cath at a government hospital by a sweeper instead of medical personnel in Barmer district of Rajasthan.

HYDERABAD: After seven consecutive wins, Chennai Super Kings came back to earth against Mumbai Indians, losing a low-scoring game by 60 runs.

LONDON: Alex Ferguson could be about to sensationally retire as manager of English Premier League giants Manchester United, according to British media reports on Tuesday.

MUMBAI: Mumbai Indians continued their domination at fortress Wankhede, thumping defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders by 65 runs on Tuesday. The defeat virtually ended Kolkata's hopes of making the playoffs this year, while the big win ensured that Mumbai moved up to second place.