Rescue workers at the site in Murshidabad, West Bengal, where a train rammed a school van on Thursday morning, killing three students, July 17, 2026. Follow The Indian Express for breaking news and live news updates from India and around the world.Three students were killed after a train rammed a school van in West Bengal’s Murshidabad on Thursday morning, in a tragedy that has added to a week already marked by rain deaths and infrastructure failures across the country. Details of the exact circumstances — the crossing, the timing, whether barriers were in place — are still emerging as rescue and relief operations continue at the site.If you are just joining us, this is The Indian Express Realtime breaking news blog – where we bring you the latest news updates of the day in real time. Scan the top headlines of the day here, or keep scrolling to see the latest updates stream in.Lord’s ODI could be Rohit Sharma’s last match for IndiaThe third ODI against England at Lord’s is shaping up as a potential farewell for Rohit Sharma, with sources indicating that the BCCI and team management are prepared for the captain to announce his retirement from the format after the match — a quietly significant moment for Indian cricket at one of the game’s most storied venues.Story continues below this adTrump claims China stole 220 million US voter filesDonald Trump has claimed that China stole sensitive information from 220 million voter files across 18 states, calling it the largest electoral data compromise in history — an allegation that, if substantiated, would represent an extraordinary breach of American democratic infrastructure, and one that Beijing has not yet formally responded to.Gujarat Police’s anti-radicalisation SOP triggers political stormA Gujarat Police standard operating procedure that references beards, niqabs and Arabic phrases as markers of potential radicalisation has drawn sharp criticism from opposition politicians and civil liberties groups, who say it amounts to religious profiling with a formal policy sanction.Maratha quota: Can a politically dominant community be ‘backward’? Bombay HC examinesThe Bombay High Court is examining the constitutional question at the heart of the Maratha reservation debate — whether a community that has wielded significant political power in Maharashtra can simultaneously qualify as socially and educationally backward under the terms of the Constitution.He killed someone, vanished for 39 years — a hospital visit gave him awayA man who killed someone in Kerala and spent 39 years in hiding has been tracked down after a routine hospital visit — a case that says as much about the persistence of police records as it does about the limits of a life spent looking over your shoulder.Live Updates© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd