Spending for the parade has become a flashpoint since it comes at a time when the Trump administration is slashing funding for personnel and programs across the federal government, including the Defense Department.
Cricket fans had come out to celebrate Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s first Indian Premier League title win. The team had given away free passes to fans for the event through its website, and urged them to follow guidelines set by police and authorities.
The team in a statement said it was “deeply anguished.”Local TV news channels showed some people stretched out on the ground and emergency personnel carrying people into ambulances, while celebrations inside the stadium continued.D.K. Shivakumar, the deputy chief minister of Karnataka state, told reporters that “the crowd was very uncontrollable.”
The Board of Control for Cricket in India, which organizes the IPL, in a statement called the incident “unfortunate.”“This is a negative side of popularity. People are crazy for their cricketers. The organizers should have planned it better,” BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the incident “heartrending” and said his “thoughts are with all those who have lost their loved ones.”
in India when large crowds gather. In January, at least 30 people were killed as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to bathe in a sacred river during theUnder Nevada’s bill, voters will be required to show a form of photo ID when voting in person, which will include government-issued IDs and Nevada-issued university student IDs.
“Nevada has some of the most secure and accessible elections in the country,” Yeager said when he introduced the legislation, “and this bill is a set of compromises between the Legislature and the governor that I believe can ensure that tradition continues.”Associated Press writers Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta and Linley Sanders in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the— files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep under wraps in the national archives.