New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs Friday said 13 foreign nationals are among those who died in a hotel fire in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar, and the ministry is in touch with the embassies of their countries, extending help with paperwork and medical assistance. Of the 13, four were from Nigeria, three from Kyrgyzstan, and one...

Kendrapara: A 74-year-old woman suffered serious injuries after an explosion ripped through a suspected illegal firecracker manufacturing unit in Odisha's Kendrapara district, police said Friday. The incident occurred Thursday night at Ostarahat village under the jurisdiction of Marshaghai police station. The injured woman, identified as Bilasini Mallick, was initially admitted to the Community Health Centre (CHC) at...

Kendrapara: The decomposed body of a 23-year-old Dalit man, who had been missing for over a week, was recovered from a bush in Odisha's Kendrapara district Friday, a day after a person was arrested on suspicion of murd*r, police said. Gouranga Sethi of Mahadeipatana village had been missing since May 27. His father, Arun Sethi, lodged an...

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Lahore: Pakistan will not be sending its team to India for the Asian Fencing Championships. Usman Ahmad, the secretary of the Pakistan Fencing Federation, said that the organisers had not provided any assurances for the visas and security of the Pakistani players in India. "Without these guarantees, we decided not to participate in the championship," Usman said....

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday said the Modi government's argument that the Great Nicobar Island Project is about defence and a transshipment port is a "lie", and alleged that it is actually about benefitting one businessman so that he can build hotels and casinos on India's most irreplaceable ecological land. Gandhi released an over 16-minute...

New Delhi: Leading hyperscale data centre specialist AirTrunk plans to invest more than Rs 3 lakh crore in India by 2030 in support of digital infrastructure capacity, positioning the country as a cornerstone of global growth strategy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday announced the investment plans of AirTrunk, the Asia-Pacific and Middle East technology company, and its...

Imphal: Three people, including a woman, were killed after armed assailants launched an attack at a village in Manipur's Kangpokpi district early Friday, officials said. At least seven houses were also gutted in a fire during the attack around 4 am at Loibol Khullen village in Saitu-Gamphazol subdivision of the district, they said. The three died amid...

Visakhapatnam: India and the US are moving towards closing all the open ends of the interim trade agreement, and both sides are likely to execute the "very, very vibrant" first phase of the pact by the middle of next month, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Friday. He said that the US team was in New...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has initiated the process of rescuing five migrant workers of the state, following their claim that they have been stranded in Thailand, an official said Friday. The unskilled workers, hailing from various areas of Kendrapada district, went to the Southeast Asian nation on tourist visas but were working there at a plywood manufacturing...