Six devotees were killed and 12 to 14 others injured after a wall and tin sheets on the premises of a temple collapsed following strong winds and heavy rains in Maharashtra's Sangli district on Tuesday evening, police officials said.
Russia has conducted a successful test launch of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile.
US President Donald Trump is on his way to Beijing to meet with China's President Xi Jinping. The two-day trip -- the first since Trump visited in 2017 -- will include high-stakes talks with the Chinese President amid a packed itinerary that includes a state banquet and a tea reception. Trump heads to China with his ambitions blunted by court rulings on tariffs, narrowing his goals to a few deals on beans, beef and Boeing jets.
The total cost of the ongoing US war against Iran has now surpassed $29 billion, the Pentagon's acting comptroller Jules Hurst has said. The figure is $4 billion higher than the Pentagon's previous estimate of $25 billion provided on April 29.
A massive blast at a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan killed nine people and wounded dozens more, the emergency services agency said, as the latest attack in the region threatens to reignite fighting with neighbouring Afghanistan on Tuesday (May 12).
Himanta Biswa Sarma was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Assam for the second successive term, a first for a non-Congress leader in the State on Tuesday (May 12).