Here's your 5-minute wrap of the day's top headlines from across the country, the world and the field of sports and entertainment.At least 23 people were killed and several were critically injured after a passenger vehicle carrying more than 35 people.At least 23 killed, several injured in road accident in Assam’s Golaghat: PoliceAt least 23 people were killed and several were critically injured after a passenger vehicle carrying more than 35 people, including school students, collided head-on with a trailer in Assam’s Golaghat district on Friday afternoon, police said. The accident took place at around 2.30 pm, when the passenger vehicle, travelling from Bokakhat towards Nagaon, collided with the goods-carrying vehicle, officers said.
More details here.Fiscal discipline has cut cost of capital to build businesses, jobs: World Bank’s Neelkanth MishraThe Indian economy is on the cusp of a structural change with never-before enablers like cheap capital and technology access for its entrepreneurial class. Even as India targets a larger share of manufacturing in its national income, it should work on helping young Indians find employment in countries with ageing populations, Neelkanth Mishra, executive director, World Bank, said in an interview.
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