New Delhi  - At least 10 people were killed and another 10 are missing after a bus plunged into a river in India's northern state of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, a news report said.

More than 20 were injured in the accident when the bus skidded off the road into the Chenab river in the southern Kishtwar district of the mountainous state, the PTI news agency reported.

Seven people died at the scene, one on the way to hospital and two succumbed to their injuries at the hospital, the report said. Three women were among the victims.

New Delhi, Sept 4 : Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), which is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee year, will be organising a two-day National conference on
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) here from Friday.

Continuing Professional Education Committee and Northern India Regional Council of ICAI are organizing this conference.

Kushna Dam (Nepal), Sept 4 : Indian flood victims have alleged that they are being discriminated by the authorities at relief camps in Nepal.

The Indians, hailing from the flood hit Bhawanipur in Bihar, who had taken refuge over the Kosi dam in Nepal were shifted to relief camps after the repair work on the dam started.

These victims accused the relief authorities at the camp of discriminating against them while distributing food relief.

The authorities at the relief camp have issued coupons to the flood victims that need to be shown at the time of distribution of relief material.

Mumbai, Sept. 4 : The Bombay High Court on Thursday said that a bar dancer can be termed a ''genuine artists''.

"Merely because these girls were performing in dance bars earlier, it cannot be readily inferred that they are not genuine artists," Justice A B Chaudhary said.

The dance bars of Mumbai had been given performance licenses by the government itself, Justice Chaudhary further noted.

New Delhi, Sept 4 : Delhi police has nabbed a Nigerian national with heroin worth Rs. 25 million here today.

While talking to media about the haul Deputy Commissioner of police, Special Cell, Alok Kumar said, “A team of special cell led by Inspector Attar Singh under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner Ravi Shankar exposed an international drug cartel. The team has recovered 2.5 kilograms of heroin which is worth Rupees 2.5 crore in international market.”

Acting on a tip-off the police team arrested Abdul Latif alias Johnson, a resident of Lagos, Nigeria, and an Indian Mohammad Akhtar with one kilogram of heroin.

New York, Sept. 4 : Indian companies once again made a strong showing in the Forbes List of fifty top Asian companies.

Ten Indian companies have made the list, which is dominated by China (13 companies). Australia and Taiwan follow India with seven and six firms respectively. The list also includes Hong Kong (five firms), Japan (three), South Korea (two), and Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia (one each).