Training exercises for Block Level Officers for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls in Kolkata and other districts saw disruptions on Saturday after government employees raised several demands, including a central security cover.

Two cousins were killed, and one person was seriously injured after their speeding car crashed into a metro station pillar in Pune in the early hours of Sunday.

A supermarket explosion killed at least 23 people in northern Mexico on Saturday, according to local officials, with investigators saying the blast was an accident possibly caused by a faulty electric transformer.