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House collapse claims three
BANGALORE: Three persons of a family, including a four-year-old boy, were killed when their house in Masti town of Kolar district collapsed following heavy rains in the early hours today, police here said.The 40-year-old man and his wife 40 were killed and three more of their children injured, police added.
Leonid showers to appear in mid-Nov
NEW DELHI: The Leonid meteor shower that proved a damp squib last year, will reappear next month, but this time it will put up a better show, scientists say.
This year8217;s Leonid shower is expected to peak over Europe at 2:08 am on November 18, when 20 meteors will be seen every minute, report scientists from Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics IUCAA in Pune, quoting a publication of D Asher of Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland, who predicted last year8217;s shower.
India will see about 100 meteors in a hour at that time. This year8217;s shower promises a good, though not spectacular display, thereport says.
TN BJP protests building of church
NAGERCOIL TN: Thousands of volunteers of the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP and various Hindu organisations today took out a procession in the town protesting the government8217;s permission for the reconstruction of a church which was gutted in a fire at Melakrishnapudur in Kanyakumari district last month.
The protesters presented a memorandum to the authorities at the collectorate condemning their order permitting reconstruction of the Church of South India CSI church without altering the status-quo of the place. Work on the reconstruction of the church began on October 20.
A commission of enquiry set up shortly after the 1982 Mandaikadu communal riots, prohibited the construction of a new structure over any unauthorised place of worship in the region.
Students damage buses, police jeep
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Pro-Congress Kerala Students Union KSU activists protesting against the hike in bus fare clashed with police in front of theGovernment Secretariat here today, damaging at least six KSRTC buses and a police jeep.
Several students, a few policemen and some passersby were injured in the heavy stone-pelting during the incident. Trouble began when students sought to gatecrash into the Secretariat, forcing the police to physically prevent them. Enraged protesters pelted stones at the police who then used mild force to disperse the crowd.
