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  Massive crash involving 75-100 vehicles on icy Texas interstate, 5 killed

  World | February 11, 2021 22:22 IST

  Police say five people were killed Thursday in a massive crash involving 75 to 100 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate. Fort Worth police say the number of injured is still unknown as they are still at working the accident. A winter storm is dropping freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the U.S.  

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  Oracle to move Silicon Valley headquarters to Texas

  Business | December 12, 2020 10:34 IST

  Cloud major Oracle has announced to move its California-based headquarters to Austin, Texas and cited flexibility of employee work as the key reason behind the decision.

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  Tesla CEO Elon Musk plans to move to Texas from California

  World | December 05, 2020 13:52 IST

  Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is planning to leave California and move to Texas that has no state income tax, a move that could save him billions of dollars, the media reported.

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  El Paso jail inmates help move bodies into morgues as Covid deaths surge

  World | November 23, 2020 20:54 IST

  As coronavirus related death toll surges in Texas, inmates of the El Paso county jail are helping bodies to move into morgues until Texas National Guard members are able to help for the cause.

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  Texas becomes first US state to surpass one million coronavirus cases

  World | November 09, 2020 14:32 IST

  Texas has become the first US state to cross over a million coronavirus cases as President-elect Joe Biden is getting to work to battle the deadly virus which has infected more than 9.8 million people in the country.

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  Texas becomes first US state to record over 1 million coronavirus cases

  World | November 08, 2020 17:52 IST

  Texas has become the first state in the US to record more than one million confirmed coronavirus cases, as the country, currently, the worst-hit is struggling to contain the pandemic.

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  Texas, Louisiana brace for Hurricane Laura; over half a million residents ordered to evacuate

  India | August 26, 2020 8:16 IST

  As Hurricane Laura hurtled towards the US, more than half a million people have been ordered to evacuate the Texas and Louisiana coasts, in the largest evacuation in the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  Rare Blue Dragons wash up on Texas Beach

  May 15, 2020 22:44 IST

  Rare Blue Dragons have washed up on the Padre Beach in Texas a few days ago. The 1-inch long creatures, also called Blue Glaucus, look similar to jellyfish but are very dangerous and not to be messed with.

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  COVID-19: 44 Texas University students test positive after spring break trip

  World | April 02, 2020 17:11 IST

  ​Forty four students of the University of Texas in the US have tested positive for COVID-19 after they returned from a spring break trip to Mexico, avoiding social-distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic.  

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  2 dead as unidentified person opens fire at Texas A&M University

  World | February 04, 2020 6:51 IST

  Two people died and another got injured as an unidentified person opened fire inside the Commerce campus of the Texas A&M University on Monday. The incident took place at the Pride Rock Residence Hall, the local police said in a tweet. The surviving victim was taken to a hospital in unknown condition.

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  WATCH | Dramatic video of truck losing control and crashing into another accident scene in Texas

  World | December 28, 2019 10:09 IST

  A multi-vehicle pileup in Texas on Friday was partially captured in a dramatic video of an 18-wheel tractor-trailer slamming into the accident scene. The accident began as a two-car crash on Highway 84 in Lubbock County.

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  At least 14 dead in Mexico gunbattle near Texas border

  World | December 01, 2019 12:48 IST

  Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation, and that several municipal workers were missing.

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  Nile river six times as old as previously thought

  World | November 12, 2019 12:34 IST

  The Nile river flowing through Egypt could be six times as old as previously thought, according to a study which estimated it to have originated at least 30 million years ago.

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  20 killed, many injured in mass shooting at Texas Walmart

  World | August 04, 2019 6:51 IST

  Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting Saturday in a busy shopping area in the Texas border town of El Paso, the state's governor Greg Abbott confirmed. He described it as one of the deadliest days in the state's history.

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  Historic 124-year-old Central Texas church burns to ground | Watch

  World | July 30, 2019 18:26 IST

  Photos posted on the Austin Catholic diocesan Facebook page show the Church of the Visitation in Westphalia fully involved in flames Monday morning, being reduced to nothing more than ashes.

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  10 killed in plane crash at Texas airport

  World | July 01, 2019 7:07 IST

  All ten people on board were killed after it crashed at Addison Airport at 9:10 a.m local time on Sunday, Mary Rosenbleeth, spokeswoman for the city of Addison

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  250 migrant children in Texas moved from 'horrific cells' after outcry

  World | June 25, 2019 18:41 IST

  At least 250 migrant children have been moved from an overcrowded border station in the US state of Texas where they had been "locked up in horrific cells with an open toilet in the middle of the room", the media reported.

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  SpaceX to build test versions of Mars spaceships in Texas, not Los Angeles

  Science | January 17, 2019 9:32 IST

  SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted that development of Starship will continue in Hawthorne, but prototypes will be built in south Texas. 

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  US President Donald Trump meets families of people killed in Texas mass violence

  World | June 01, 2018 13:02 IST

  Donald Trump privately met the families, also discussed the safety measures as suggested by the families of students killed at different schools to be implemented by the government.

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  US: 10 people killed in Texas school shooting, gunman arrested

  World | May 18, 2018 21:44 IST

  The incident took place at Santa Fe High School in the city of the same name, located about 50 kilometres southeast of Houston.