Five people were killed today and 18-others injured when three vehicles met with an accident on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway in Mirzapur Ajigawan village, the police said. The incident took place at about 2am when a truck carrying pipes lost control and hit a divider. As pipes got scattered on the Expressway, a bus coming from behind overturned and hit a car from the back.

French aircraft maker Dassault Aviation has said it would set up a production line for Rafale fighter aircraft in India only if the country placed an order of around 100 jets. Adding Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd has built cockpit sections and fuel tanks of Falcon 2000 jets at Nagpur, he said, "36 Rafales aren't good enough for transfer of technology."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said fundamentals of the Indian economy are sound and it is on the way to becoming a USD 5 trillion economy soon. Addressing the India Korea Business Symposium, he said India is now a more open economy and has attracted USD 250 billion foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last four years.