NEW DELHI: At least seven people have been rescued after a fire broke out at a residential building in Delhi’s New Friends Colony on Sunday afternoon.On fire incident at New Friends colony area, station officer Rajkumar from the Mathura Road Fire Station says, “We received a distress call regarding a fire at approximately 3:40pm and…

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On May 21, India’s power grid hit a number it had never seen before. Demand crossed 270 gigawatts, peaking at 270.73 GW. To put that in context, the entire installed power capacity of the United Kingdom is roughly 80 GW. India was drawing more than three times that in a single afternoon.The reason was heat.…

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NEW DELHI: Leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc are set to meet in New Delhi on Monday in what will be the alliance’s first major huddle after recent assembly election setbacks for some of its key constituents and amid growing strains within the coalition.Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said on Sunday that 23 political parties…

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MUMBAI: Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut has strongly criticised societal perceptions of nursing, saying the profession is often “sexualised” and stereotyped despite nurses being among the most crucial frontline healthcare workers. She said the role remains deeply underappreciated in public discourse.Speaking about her upcoming film “Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata”, inspired by the extraordinary true story of the brave…

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NEW DELHI: Former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has reignited discussions around the 2022 Congress presidential race and internal party turmoil, saying he would not have refused the top post if offered by Sonia Gandhi and the party leadership.His comments are being seen as reopening old fault lines within the Congress over the leadership transition…

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NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has once again come to the defence of the “noble idli,” this time weighing in on a viral social media post that declared “chai and idli” to be the “best combination to ever exist.”Responding to the post on X, the Thiruvananthapuram MP offered a detailed and characteristically witty critique…

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KOLKATA: The Bengal Police on Sunday arrested Mohammad Jasimuddin, a Trinamool Congress councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on charges of molestation and harassment of a minor girl.Jasimuddin, a councillor from Ward No. 39 in the Jorasanko area of central Kolkata, was taken into custody from his residence in the afternoon, police said.He has…

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A 28-year-old Indian man from Telangana was shot dead in Philadelphia after being lured to a vacant property with a fake pizza delivery order, his family has alleged, with his sister calling it a “trap” meant solely to kill him and urging parents not to send their children to the United States.“It was a trap,…

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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: The BCCI has decided to allow teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s parents to accompany him on the upcoming tours of Ireland and England, with the board set to bear all expenses in a bid to help the 15-year-old prodigy adjust to life in the senior Indian cricket team.BCCI secretary Devajit…

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MUMBAI: Barely hours after Goregaon’s Mrinal Tai Gore flyover extension constructed at a cost of Rs 248 crores in Goregaon was opened to motorists, social media was flooded with criticism over the quality of its road surface. Users posted comments such as, “The surface looks as if it won’t last one monsoon,” “So much patchwork,”…

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