A truck allegedly hijacked by a man suspected to be mentally deranged on Tuesday ploughed through busy thoroughfares in Satna town of Madhya Pradesh, killing at least seven persons and injuring over 36 people, 17 of them seriously, the police said.

Actor Matt Damon has vowed to give up his showbiz life and move his family back East if he becomes a paparazzi target like friend and neighbour Ben Affleck.

Mini Lisa! Scientists have “painted” a mini version of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Mona Lisa on the world’s smallest canvas, a surface one-third the width of a human hair. Researchers at the Geo-rgia Institute of Techn-ology “painted” the wor-ld’s most famous painting Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width.

Steven Spielberg has dropped out of directing Bradley Cooper starrer American Sniper, an adaptation of a memoir by Navy Seal Chris Kyle.

Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf failed to appear Tuesday before an anti-terrorism court due to “security reasons” for his trial in the assassination case of former premier Benazir Bhutto, prompting the judge to adjourn the hearing till August 20.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday said India would not be cowed down by the “deceitful” killing of five of its soldiers by Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC) and asked the Government to take “appropriate” measures.

The BSE benchmark sensex Tuesday plunged 450 points to end below the 19,000-mark after five weeks on massive all-round selling as the rupee hit record low of 61.80 against the dollar.

Realty firm Unitech Tuesday reported 37 per cent increase in consolidated net profit at Rs 62.89 crore for the quarter ended June on higher sales and lower finance costs.

Investors have pulled out more than Rs 48,000 crore from various mutual fund schemes in June after putting in a staggering Rs 1.44 lakh crore in the preceding two months.

Tata Power Tuesday reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 114.70 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2013, even as the electricity producer raked in higher income.