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Lucknow: Fifteen people were "brought dead" at a hospital and seven injured were undergoing treatment after a massive fire gutted a three-floor commercial building housing an animation centre Monday, according to a hospital official. Dr Anil Agrawal, Medical Superintendent, Trauma Centre, KGMU, said that "21...

Burgenstock (Switzerland): US Vice President JD Vance said Monday that Iran has agreed to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) back into the country, describing the move as a major breakthrough in negotiations aimed at permanently ending Tehran's nuclear weapons programme and...

London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer conceded Monday that he had lost the support of his rank and file Labour party members in Parliament and that he will be stepping down as soon as his successor as party leader is chosen, possibly as soon as...

New Delhi: The Central Drugs Laboratories found 46 drug samples manufactured by various firms to be "not of standard quality (NSQ)" in its monthly drug alert for May, health ministry officials said Monday. Further, the State Drugs Testing Laboratories have identified 113 drug samples as...

New Delhi: Revised physical marksheets of students whose Class-XII scores changed after verification or re-evaluation will be made available at the CBSE's regional offices in due course, sources said Monday. Candidates will be required to surrender their old original marksheets before the issuance of the...

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Monday thanked all stakeholders involved in the US-Iran peace talks held in Switzerland, saying the negotiations had made "encouraging progress". In a social media post, Sharif said the first high-level committee meeting under the framework of the Islamabad Memorandum...

New Delhi: The government has approved the installation of its indigenous train protection system -- Kavach -- on 631 route kilometres (RKm) of the East Coast Railway network at an estimated cost of Rs 270 crore, the Ministry of Railways said Monday. The project will...

Lucknow: A fire broke out at a three-storey commercial building in Lucknow Monday afternoon, following which the fire department launched a rescue and firefighting operation, officials said. Some people were feared trapped in the building, while others had to jump out of the building to...

Chennai: The toll in the ammonia gas leak tragedy in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district mounted to five and arrangements were on to shift the mortal remains of the workers to their home town, state Labour Welfare Minister J Mohamed Farvas informed the Assembly Monday. State...

New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) remained at Jantar Mantar Monday for the third consecutive day, continuing their protest over alleged examination irregularities and the May 3 NEET paper leak. The sit-in, which began Saturday afternoon, continued overnight with protesters staying at the site...