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Officials reported a false fire alarm at AIIMS to the Delhi Fire Service (DFS) control room on Tuesday evening. The call, made by a nearby resident to fire control room number 101 at 9:28 pm, claimed a fire on the top floor of the surgery block.
Police revealed that a threat to detonate VR Mall on Dumas Road, sent via email to around 50 recipients, was a hoax. Deputy Commissioner of Police Vijay Singh Gurjar stated that the email, from an unidentified sender, was investigated.
Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday as the crescent for the Islamic month of Shawwal was sighted here, the Union Territory's grand Mufti Nasir-Ul-Islam announced on Tuesday.
According to the police, the crime branch apprehended a retired junior commissioned officer from the military police for purportedly possessing counterfeit firearms licenses and weapons.
The number of unicorns -- companies worth over USD 1 billion -- in the country has declined for the first time in four years to 67, a report said on Tuesday. The country, however, maintained the tag of being the third biggest hub for unicorns across the world, according to the Hurun Global Unicorn Index 2024.
The Congress on Tuesday opposed in the Delhi High Court a petition against the use of acronym INDIA, saying it is a "politically motivated" plea and shall be dismissed with exemplary costs. (PTI)
For over twenty years, Sardar Jitendar Singh and his family have upheld a distinctive tradition rooted in the principles of their faith: they organize an 'Iftar Langar', offering meals to underprivileged Muslims throughout the month of Ramadan.
In Kathmandu, clashes erupted between riot police and hundreds of protesters advocating for the reinstatement of the monarchy in Nepal. Supporters of former King Gyanendra, ousted from power in 2008, sought to breach police barricades with the aim of reaching the offices of the prime minister and other significant government departments.
Pakistani authorities have deployed more than 100,000 police and paramilitary forces at mosques and marketplaces across the country ahead of the massive Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said Tuesday.
Three contract labourers tragically succumbed to suffocation while undertaking maintenance work at a sewage treatment plant (STP) within a housing complex in Palghar district, Maharashtra, on Tuesday. Additionally, one labourer was reported missing from the scene.
According to officials, a fire ignited on Tuesday morning in a three-story building situated within an industrial estate in Mumbai. The incident occurred at the Municipal Industrial Estate in Gandhi Nagar, Worli area. Fortunately, no injuries were reported from the blaze.
Sources from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have disclosed that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal intends to approach the Supreme Court following a high court ruling that rejected his plea against potential arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in connection to a money laundering case associated with the purported excise scam.
The world experienced the warmest March ever due to a combined effect of El Nino conditions and human caused climate change, making it the 10th consecutive month since June last year to set a new temperature record, the European Union's climate agency said.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders who were detained by Delhi Police while staging a dharna outside the Election Commission's office continued their protest at Mandir Marg police station on Tuesday morning. AAP leaders, including Saurabh Bharadwaj, met the protesting TMC leaders who camped overnight at the police station. (PTI)
The US has said that it has been following reports accusing India of conducting targeted killings in Pakistan and said it encourages the two countries to find a solution through talks.
"We have been following the media reports about this issue. We don't have any comment on the underlying allegations. But of course, while we're not going to get in the middle of this situation, we encourage both sides to avoid escalation and find a resolution through dialogue," he said.
India had last week rejected the targeted killing charges, made in a report in the UK daily The Guardian citing Pakistani evidence, as "false and malicious anti-India propaganda".
Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of BRS MLC K Kavitha till April 23 in connection with the excise policy money laundering case. She was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 15, 2024.
According to the Kerala Chief Minister's Office (CMO), CM Pinarayi Vijayan strongly condemned the telecast of the 'The Kerala Story' in dioceses, alleging that it aligns with the BJP and RSS agenda.
"He accused the RSS of categorizing individuals as Internal enemies in the country, a concept derived from Hitler's ideology. Vijayan emphasized that the RSS targets minorities, including Muslims and Christians, fostering discord among different sects. He warned against falling into the trap of division and asserted that such actions serve a political agenda. The Chief Minister deemed the film's broadcast as incompatible with Kerala's cultural ethos and criticized its politicization," according to the Kerala CMO.
The Kolkata police on Tuesday said the bomb threat email received by several schools in the city was a hoax as it registered a case and began a probe.
The police appealed to the parents of students to keep calm and not panic.
A 25-year-old Indian student from Hyderabad, missing since last month, was found dead in Cleveland, United States. The death of Mohammad Abdul Arfath is the second such incident within a week and the 11th in 2024. Read more
A team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted raids at various locations in Tamil Nadu as part of an investigation into drug-related money laundering involving former DMK member Jaffer Sadiq and others.
A team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) reached the Bhojshala complex in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, for the survey on Tuesday morning. ASI started the archaeological survey of the complex on March 22.
The man who shot the Dera Kar Seva chief of the Nanakmatta Sahib Gurdwara in Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar was killed by the Uttarakhand STF and Haridwar Police in an encounter, the state's top cop told ANI news agency on Tuesday.