Six school children and a driver were killed when the SUV they were travelling in collided with a truck at Samana in Punjab’s Patiala district on Wednesday, police said.

PM Modi has put his 3-nation Europe visit on hold as tensions between India and Pakistan have surged in the wake of the terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam in which 26 civilians were killed by Pak-linked terrorists in a religiously-motivated attack.

Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday, signalling that the 133 Catholic cardinals meeting in a secret conclave failed to elect a new pope on their first ballot.