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Two separate suicide and gun attacks on government forces in Afghanistan left nearly 50 dead and more than 200 wounded, officials said Tuesday, the latest devastating assault on beleaguered security forces.

Two motorcycle-borne youths shot dead Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Ravinder Gosain in Punjab's Ludhiana today while while he was returning home after attending the organisation's morning drill, police said.

Cricket great Sachin Tendulkar has urged Twitter to remove fake accounts of daughter Sara and son Arjun at the earliest. In 2014, he had requested the social media platform to remove the fake accounts in his children's names, but looks like the appeals have fallen on deaf ears.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist and blogger from Malta who was known for her reporting on governmental corruption, was killed in a bomb explosion near her home on Monday, officials say.

The navy's Poseidon 8-India (P8I) aircraft has joined the massive search for 10 sailors missing after their ship, struck by a storm, sank in the Pacific off the Philippines last week. Two search flights have failed to produce results, say officials.

India and Russia will hold large-scale military exercises engaging their armies, navies and air forces for the first time, said the Defence Ministry.

The rescue of an abducted US-Canadian family in Pakistan last week has spotlighted their captors the Haqqani network, former CIA assets now considered one of the most dangerous factions fighting US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Google today celebrates American singer and song writer Selena Quintanilla, popularly known as Selena. Called the Queen of Tejano music, Selena became one of the most celebrated Mexian-american celebrities in the 80s and 90s for her contributions to music and fashion.

Nupur and Rajesh Talwar will "never get over the pain of losing their daughter Aarushi and will fight till the end for her," the family said on Monday after the dentist couple left a jail near Delhi and came home.

To most children, festival holidays bring joy and a break from studies. For Santoshi Kumari, it meant starving. The 11-year-old died on September 28 at her village in Jharkhand, months after the administration allegedly stopped giving her family subsidized food. A report by district officials says the cause of death is malaria, but her family claims she died crying, "bhaat, bhaat (rice)."

Passengers aboard an Indonesia AirAsia flight to Bali said the actions of the crew sent those on board into a state of panic after the plane experienced a problem midflight.

The government was using aircraft and vessels to search for 10 Indian crew members, who went missing after their cargo ship sank in the Pacific off the Philippines last week, the external affairs ministry said on Monday.

The value of declared assets of BJP has increased from Rs 122.93 crore in 2004-05 to Rs 893.88 crore in 2015-16 while that of Congress has risen from Rs 167.35 crore to Rs 758.79 crore, according to the NGOs Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Election Watch.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today excoriated the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family, accusing them of disliking Gujarat and Gujaratis who they considered an "eyesore".

Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera said the encounters began when she was young and happened several times throughout her life.