Maruti July sales rise 21.7% to 1,01,380 units
Country’s largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Friday reported 21.7 per cent increase in its total sales for July at 1,01,380 units as against 83,299 units in the same month last year. The company said its domestic sales rose 19.9 per cent during the month to 90,093 units as against... read more »
Death toll in Indonesia boat accidents up to 34
Rescuers in Indonesia recovered more bodies after vessels carrying villagers to celebrations of Id-ul-fitr capsized in two separate rivers, raising the death toll to 34, officials said on Friday. Seventeen bodies were pulled out from the Barombang River in North Sumatra province, where a boat... read more »
Gas explosions kill 24, injure 271 in Taiwan
At least 24 people were killed and 271 others injured when several underground gas explosions ripped through Taiwan’s second-largest city overnight, hurling concrete through the air and blasting long trenches in the streets, authorities said on Friday. The series of explosions about midnight on... read more »
10 killed in Bangladesh train-bus collision
At least 10 people were killed and 50 injured on Friday when a train collided with a bus at a railway crossing in Bangladesh’s Jhenaidah district. A railway official said the train smashed the crowded bus, which was carrying a groom’s family and friends back from a... read more »
