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Twin explosions were reported from two carriages of an Indian train travelling from the north-eastern city of Guwahati to the southern city of Bangalore. At least one women has been killed and 14 others injured, reported BBC. The explosion occurred just after train stopped at the station.

Google's self driven car on a test drive  Google is already test driving the cars with out drivers and has said that the cars it is programming to drive themselves have started to master the navigation of city streets and ready to face the challenges faced by street walkers, and weaving bikers which is thought to be a critical milestone for any commercially available self-driving car technology. 

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Millions of Muslim Pilgrims around the world visit Makkah  Riyadh : With the outburst of deadly virus in the Muslim holy land of Saudi Arabia the fingers are raised that would it have any affect over the millions of pilgrims around the world to visit Makkah (Mecca) and Medina for Umrah and Hajj.

Kandahar , Afghanistan : A NATO helicopter went down near southern Afghanistan’s main city of Kandahar killing at least five British soldiers working for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Saturday, according to a statement released by NATO.

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The Bhanbhor division consists Thatta, Sajawal, and Badin districts Karachi : Sindh government has announced the sixth division of Sindh, 'Bhanbhor', which is carved out of Hyderabad division and consist of  Thatta, Badin, and Sajawal districts with its headquarters at Makli. The ruined city of Bhanbhor is located about 70 km from Karachi on Nation Highway leading towards Thatta over Gharo creek.

Moscow : Russian president Vladimir Putin called the internet a CIA project, he said this while commenting about Russia's biggest search engine Yandex. 

Kabul : Three Americans were killed when a security guard opened fire at a Kabul hospital funded by a US Christian charity Cure, according to media reports. US embassy official has confirmed that three Americans were killed while fourth was wounded without giving further details.

Islamabad : Pakistani jet fighters attack suspected militant hideouts in Khyber Agency near Afghan border on Thursday killing twelve and injuring more than 15 according to Geo News.  The strikes came despite efforts by Nawaz government to engage the Taliban in talks to end years of fighting with insurgency. Both the Taliban and government committees meet yesterday and announced that they were very near to achieve stability and peace in the country. 

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya (left) and Mahmud Abbas (right) agreed to form a unity government Gaza : Palestinian factions, Hamas and PLO reached an agreement to form a unity government to end seven years of rival ship and divided administration on Wednesday, the news was welcomed around the world and Palestinians celebrated the news in Gaza and West-bank .

MQM and PPP join hands for the greater cause of the province Karachi : MQM has decided to join Sindh government with Pakistan People Party, according to media reports. According to initial reports, MQM will be given four minister-ships including health ministry .

Former President general Pervaiz Musharf while attending a trial court Karachi : Formal Pakistani dictator (Rtd) general Musharaf has arrived in Karachi with out any prior plan. General Musharaf arrived in a foolproof security at his sisters house where he is said to live and get his treatment from PNS Shifa hospital.

This is second attempt on the life of Hamid Mir  Karachi : Geo News senior anchor person and first Pakistani who interviewed Osama Bin Laden is attached by some unknown persons near Karachi airport. Hamid Mir sustained three bullets, two in abdomen and one in his thigh according to Doctors in Agha Khan hospital where he was immediately shifted by his driver.

South Korean passenger ferry was carrying teenagers of a high school for a trip  Seoul : More than 300 people were missing after a South Korean passenger ferry disaster in the southern coast of the country.  Until Wednesday evening, four people were confirmed dead and about 291 were still unaccounted as passenger ferry almost submerged into the water, raising the fear that rest of the people were already dead.

Police arrested Muhammad Arif, one of the brother, and recovered the body parts of a child  Bakkhar : Two brothers who arrested and sentenced for eating five corpses have again been found involved in cannibalism, according to media reports. Two brothers, Mohammad Arif and Muhammd Farman were found eating a child's corpse, when police arrested one of them and recovered a child's body parts while other brother managed to flee before he could be arrested.

International search teams are searching around the pinpointed area Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot has said that he is confident the signals monitored by Chinese ship were from the black box missing plane MH370. The search has been intensified in the area and Australian PM hopes that they could find the black box in the vicinity of one kilometre around pin pointed area.

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A bomb disposal squad is searching for possible IED at the place of bomb blast Islamabad : United Baluchistan Army, an outfit separatism faction of Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA), claims the responsibility of the terror attack of early morning attack in vegetable market of Islamabad in which 24 people were killed and more than hundred were injured.

Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka bowled superbly in his last spell of overs, Photo AFP Mirpur, Bangladesh: Sri Lanka beat India by 6 wickets in the final of World T20 tournament dashing the hopes of one of the big three sponsor.

Karachi : Sui Southern Gas Company has announced the schedule of CNG in Sindh for the month of April.  According to the notification, CNG stations will follow the same schedule of winter to open on alternative days. 

Chinese has declared that their ship in the area which is part of multinational search effort, has detected a "Pulse Signal" in southern Indian Ocean waters, China's official news agency reported. Haixun 01, which is a black box detector picked up a signal at 37.5 Hz per second on Saturday at around 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east longitude, according to the Associated Press news agency.

Virat Kohli and Yuraj Singh celebrating  victory against South Africa (AFP) Mirpur : India beat South Africa by 6 wickets after chasing a huge total of 173 runs and reaches the final of T20 world cup.  South Africa after winning the toss bat first and scored 172/4 wickets, Plessis scored 58 runs, whereas, Duminy remained not out on 45 runs in 40 balls.

Covers are on after rain and hailstorm hit the Sri Lanka West Indies match. Mir Pur: Sri Lanka reaches in the final of T20 world cup played here through D/L method, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first and scored 160/ 6 wickets in 20 overs. In reply West Indies were 80/4 wickets in 13.5 runs when rain and hail storm interrupted the play, at that level West Indies were 27 runs behind their required score.

Muhammad Hafeez announcing his resignation in a press conference in Lahore Lahore : Muhammad Hafeez has resigned from T20 captaincy after accepting responsibility for the poor performance of his team in the World T20, he also stepped down from the position of vice-captain in the ODI and Test teams.

Sammy's power hitting helped West Indies to score 166 runs . (Photo AFP) Mirpur, Bangladesh: West Indies beat Pakistan by 85 runs and reached in semi finals of world cup T20 where they will play with Sri Lanka. West Indies won the toss and choose to field first, at first they seemed to run short of 130 runs but Sammy and Bravo played well and put up the huge total of 166 runs. Bravo scored 46 runs from 26 balls by hitting 4 sixes and 2 fours whereas Sammy remained not out on 42 by hitting 2 sixes and 5 fours.

Herath of Sri Lanka took best of his carrier 5 wickets of 3 runs in 3.3 overs (AFP) Chittagong : Sri Lanka reached final along with South Africa after defeating New Zealand by 59 runs. Sri Lanka playing first scored a small total of 119 runs on a slow and dead wicket, in reply New Zealand were all out on 60 runs in 15.3 overs. 

Netherlands players celebrating their victory over England (Photo AFP) Chittagong : Netherlands has defeated England by 45 runs and got first upset of the T20 World cup tournament. England after winning the toss decided to field first, Netherlands scored 133/5 wickets in 20 overs. Barresi was top scorer from Netherlands side by scoring 48 runs from 45 balls.