Discovery returns to Earth

Discovery and its crew returned to Earth on Wednesday and concluded a 15-day space station build and repair mission that was among the most challenging in shuttle history, AP reports from Cape Canaveral.

The space shuttle touched down just after 2330 IST, after safely crossing the continent in the first coast-to- coast re-entry since the Columbia disaster almost five years ago.

Teji Bachchan shifted to ICU

Amitabh Bachchan’s mother Teji Bachchan (93), who has been in Lilavati hospital here since sometime, took seriously ill on Wednesday.

She has been shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), according to hospital sources, reports PTI from Mumbai.

Five killed in gunbattle

Three army personnel and two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were killed in a fierce gunbattle in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, reports PTI from Srinagar.