A water hammer can occur when a valve is suddenly opened or closed in a pipe carrying water or steam, causing a pressure wave to travel down the pipe with enough force that it can sometimes cause the pipes to burst.

BANGALORE: As they did not want another child after two daughters, 33-year-old Lakshmi Bai and her husband Babu decided to go in for family planning. The woman came to BBMP's Srirampura referral hospital for a tubectomy operation.

A SERIES of co-ordinated explosions ripped through courts in three north Indian cities today killing at least 10 ten people and injuring dozens more. The victims of the blasts in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh state were mostly lawyers.

Text of report by Indian news agency PTI website Mughalsarai (Uttar Pradesh) [northern Indian state], 3 October: Fifteen women were killed and 48 people injured in a stampede on the staircase of an overbridge in Mughalsarai station, the biggest railway junction in the country.

A South Korean tourist has filed a formal complaint against a monkey he says stole his reading glasses during his visit to the Hindu holy city of Varanasi in northern India. Kim Dang Hoon says he opened his hotel room window for fresh air when the monkey made his move.