Town Hall News

By Jatindra Dash and Abinaya V BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) – At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure. One train in Friday’s accident also hit a freight train parked nearby in the district of Balasore in Odisha […]

By Jatindra Dash and Abinaya V BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) – At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure. One train in Friday’s accident also hit a freight train parked nearby in the district of Balasore in Odisha […]

By Jatindra Dash and Abinaya V BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) – At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure. One train in Friday’s accident also hit a freight train parked nearby in the district of Balasore in Odisha […]

By Jatindra Dash and Krishn Kaushik BALASORE, India (Reuters) – Ompal Bhatia, a survivor of the three-train crash in India on Friday, had first thought he was dead. When the train he was traveling in went off-track, Bhatia was with three friends on his way to Chennai for work. The 25-year-old had spent most of the four-hour journey on the Coromandel Express standing. Bhatia, who works in the plywood business, […]

By Hritika Sharma (Reuters) – Friends as well as rivals, Lorenzo Musetti and Carlos Alcaraz are looking forward to meeting in the French Open fourth round on Sunday after the Italian 17th seed beat the Spanish world number one in their only previous meeting. Musetti triumphed in a three-set classic to lift his first Tour-level trophy on clay in Hamburg last year, before Alcaraz won the U.S. Open and rose […]

(Refiles to fix typo in word ‘want’ in para 14) By James Oliphant and Nathan Layne GILBERT, South Carolina (Reuters) – In the first full week of his 2024 presidential campaign, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis worked hard to define himself as a candidate to voters — and just as hard to define the man who stands in his way for the Republican nomination. As he toured 12 cities in three […]

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a bill that suspends the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, averting what would have been a first-ever default. The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the legislation this week after Biden and House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an agreement following tense negotiations. The Treasury Department had warned it would be unable to pay all its […]

(Reuters) – Alpine’s Pierre Gasly was given two three-place grid penalties for impeding rivals in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday, dropping the Frenchman from fourth to 10th on the starting grid. Stewards ruled Gasly had unnecessarily impeded Red Bull’s championship leader Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who went on to qualify first and second respectively for Sunday’s race at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya. (Reporting by Alan […]

(Reuters) – Fernando Alonso suffered his worst qualifying for Aston Martin at his home Spanish Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday but still hoped to give his army of fans plenty to cheer about in Sunday’s race. The 41-year-old double world champion, who joined Aston this season, was only ninth fastest in qualifying and was beaten for the first time by Canadian team mate Lance Stroll, who starts sixth. Alonso, […]