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Hong Kong: Firefighters battled for a second day to extinguish a blaze at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong on Thursday, as the death toll rose to 94 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city's modern history. Rescuers holding flashlights were going...

New York/Washington: The Trump administration has said it will conduct a “rigorous” re-examination of all Green Cards issued to immigrants from “every country of concern” in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard service members by an Afghan national. US Citizenship and Immigration...

Srinagar: Police in Jammu and Kashmir Thursday inspected madrassas and mosques across Srinagar as part of an ongoing crackdown against individuals and networks associated with terrorist organisations to dismantle the terror support ecosystem in the region and strengthen de-radicalisation efforts. Police have intensified raids in...

Bengaluru: The tug-of-war between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar over the CM post turned into a war of words Thursday as the two faced off over keeping up a promise. Amid intensifying power tussle, Shivakumar insisted that "word power is world power,"...

Mumbai: Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty scaled fresh lifetime highs in intra-day trade Thursday before closing marginally higher amid positive global trends on growing hopes of a US Fed rate cut and foreign fund inflows. Rising for the second day, the 30-share BSE Sensex...

Chennai: The weather system brewing over the southwest Bay of Bengal and the adjoining Sri Lanka coast intensified into a deep depression Thursday, with meteorologists warning that it will strengthen into a cyclonic storm by Thursday evening. According to the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), the...

New Delhi: Highlighting the need for a stringent law to protect the dignity of the disabled, the Supreme Court Thursday asked the Centre to consider framing a statute to make derogatory remarks ridiculing persons with disabilities and rare genetic disorders a penal offence on the...

New Delhi/Aizawl:  The Enforcement Directorate Thursday conducted maiden searches along the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram, apart from some places in Assam and Gujarat, in a drugs trafficking linked money laundering case, officials said. The federal probe agency also seized Rs 35 lakh cash apart from...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Thursday sent Jasir Bilal Wani, a key accused in the Red Fort blast case, to the National Investigating Agency's custody for seven days. Wani was produced by the agency, as the 10-day custody granted by the Principal Sessions and District...

Beijing/Hong Kong: The death toll in a deadly fire in multiple high-rise towers in Hong Kong has risen to 55, with 279 people still missing, Chinese official media reports said Thursday. Three men have been arrested for suspected manslaughter in the fire that broke out...