Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace on Wednesday for the final time as her coffin began its journey to Westminster Hall, where the late monarch will lie in state.
The queen's coffin, draped in the royal standard and topped with the Imperial State Crown, was borne on a horse-drawn gun carriage out of the front gates of her London residence at 2.22 pm. (AFP)
Mounted police pass Admiralty Arch ahead of the ceremonial procession of the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, London. Credit: Reuters Photo
"All passengers were safely evacuated after smoke was detected in engine no. 2 of Air India Express flight (to Cochin) on the runway at Muscat airport. Relief flight to be arranged. We will investigate the incident and also take appropriate action," said DGCA. (ANI)
President Droupadi Murmu to visit London on September 17-19 to attend funeral of Queen Elizabeth II: MEA
Eight labourers were killed in Ahmedabadon Wednesday after an under-construction building's elevator crashed.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday alleged that 10 AAP MLAs were approached by the BJP in Punjab and accused the BJP of trying to break governments.
IRCTC announces the launch of 'Navratri Special Tourist Train' for journeys to the Vaishno Devi shrine with the newly launched Bharat Gaurav Rake, with effect from30th September.
Twenty-eight school children were seriously injured when a speeding dumper rammed into their school bus in Mahoba district on Wednesday morning.
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In a joint operation, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and the Gujarat ATS apprehended a Pakistani boat 6 miles inside Indian waters with 40 kgs of drugs valued at Rs 200 crore. Two fast attack boats of ICG caught the Pakistani boat 33 nautical miles off Jakhau coast in Gujarat, ICG officials toldANI.
* SC to hear a batch of pleas including the lead one filed by 'Janhit Abhiyan' challenging 10 per cent quota to candidates belonging to EWS category in jobs and admissions.
* SC to hear a plea of industrialist Ratan Tata seeking protection of privacy right in view of the emergence of Niira Radia tapes.
* SC to hear a plea of BCCI seeking to amend its constitution regarding tenure of its office bearers.
* SC to hear a batch of pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict holding that wearing hijab by students in educational institutions was not a fundamental religious practice in Islam.
* SC to hear a PIL on the issue of 'Pay and Allowances of members of the UP State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission'.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will participate in the All India Official Language Conference in Gujarat's Surat city on Wednesday.
During his day-long visit to Surat, Shah will also visit Kribhco Township at Hazira near Surat where he will lay the foundation stone of a bio-ethanol plant.
The Union minister reached Surat on Tuesday night.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday visited Sivagiri mutt here to pay respects to renowned social reformer Sree Narayana Guru before commencing the fourth day of the Kerala leg of the party's Bharat Jodo Yatra.
At Sivagiri Mutt, Gandhi met the swamis there and offered prayers to the saint reformer.
The yatra, which began after 7.30 am from Navaikulam junction here, continued to witness an encouraging turn out and will enter the Kollam district of the state during the day after spending the last three days in Thiruvananthapuram district.
A police bomb squad rushed to the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday to examine a suspicious package, and there were unconfirmed reports of an explosion and minor injuries to at least one person.
Boston police said they were investigating two packages that had been left near the university's Holmes Hall. They declined to elaborate, but WCVB-TV said an individual was taken to a hospital and that firefighters and paramedics were at the scene.
WBZ-AM radio, citing unidentified police officials, said the person suffered minor injuries.
The bodies of two people were recovered after a four-storey residential building collapsed in Jordan's capital Tuesday, authorities said, adding that 14 more were rescued but others remained trapped.
Security spokesman Amer al-Sartawy told state television that the latest toll from the collapse was two deaths, after one was initially reported, adding that fourteen others were injured.
Armenia and Azerbaijan reported nearly 100 troop deaths Tuesday in their worst fighting since a 2020 war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The last wave of fighting over Azerbaijan's tense Armenian-populated enclave ended in a fragile truce brokered by Russia.
But on Tuesday, the defence ministry in Baku said "50 Azerbaijani servicemen died as a result of Armenia's large-scale provocation," while Armenia earlier reported the deaths of at least 49 of its soldiers.