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New Delhi: A five-storey building housing a boys' PG collapsed in south Delhi's Satya Niketan area Sunday afternoon, leaving several people trapped, officials said. Rescue operations were underway, and three people have been rescued so far. They were taken to the AIIMS Trauma Centre and...

Srinagar: For decades, Kashmir served as the location for some of the Hindi film industry's blockbuster movies, but Monday the valley will step into the global spotlight as it hosts its maiden international film festival. The four-day International Film Festival of Jammu and Kashmir (IFFJ&K),...

New Delhi: The Congress Sunday accused the Modi government of deliberately circumscribing the role of ISRO in the name of encouraging start-ups and claimed that the agency's capabilities are to be transferred to private companies whose long-term commitment is doubtful. Congress general secretary in-charge communications...

New Delhi: Congress Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's use of labels such as "naraaz phoopa" was part of his modus operandi of giving the Opposition a new adjective every year to keep his own "failures" hidden. The Opposition party also accused him of misusing...

New Delhi: A building collapsed in the Satya Niketan area of south Delhi Sunday, with some people feared trapped under the debris, an official of the Delhi Fire Service said. Five fire tenders and police teams have been rushed to the spot and rescue operations...

Biaora(Madhya Pradesh): A 21-year-old college student from Madhya Pradesh has turned an unlikely social media identity into an environmental campaign after spending months cleaning a heavily polluted river largely on his own. Surendra Singh Choudhary, better known online as Bittu Tabahi, has been removing plastic,...

New Delhi: The government has sold about 4,000 tonnes of buffer onions across 17 cities in the first ten days of a subsidised sale aimed at curbing skyrocketing prices, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said Sunday. The Centre, through its agencies NCCF and Nafed, is...

New Delhi: India Sunday said a UN-initiated proposed world map must depict Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in accordance with the country's official map, and any "inaccurate" or "misleading" representation will be unacceptable. New Delhi's assertion came two days after it voted...

Sagar (MP): At least ten persons died and some others fell ill after consuming spurious liquor in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district Sunday, an official said, days after a similar tragedy in neighbouring Gujarat. A local BJP MLA, however, said 11 persons had died after consuming...

United Nations: In a cartographic push to reflect the Global South more accurately, the General Assembly has backed a world map that shows the true size of continents and nations. In a resolution adopted with India's backing, the Assembly called on Friday for the adoption...