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A man was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the alleged gangrape of a 21-year-old woman in the nearby Issewal village, police said.

Than Myint from Myanmar suddenly woke up at around 4.30 am on Tuesday in her hotel room, struggling to breathe. With her sleepy eyes, all she could see was smoke.

The Income Tax Department has invoked a rarely used power and arrested a Karnataka-based businessman for alleged tax default of about Rs 12 crore, a senior official said on Tuesday.

An officer from the Indian Revenue Service (IRS), who hailed from Panchkula town in Haryana, Suresh Kumar, was among the 17 people who died in the fire that engulfed a five-storey hotel in Delhi's Karol Bagh area before dawn on Tuesday.

A police sub-inspector suffered partial burns Tuesday when he was trying to take away the effigy of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that was set on fire by Samajwadi Party workers, officials said.

Two Myanmarese Buddhist pilgrims were killed in a massive fire in a five-storey hotel in north Delhi's Karol Bagh on Tuesday, while a woman guide accompanying them escaped death by jumping off its second floor, Myanmar embassy official said in Delhi.

Wide-body aircraft can now start operating from Vijayawada airport as the extension and strengthening of the existing runway has been completed, according to the Airports Authority of India (AAI).

The inspector revived the passenger by administering Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).

The principal and the vice-principal of a college in Ahmedabad, who resigned in protest after its management cancelled the annual day function because its alumnus, Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani, was invited, was praised by the activist-politician.

The police took custody of the girls and presented them before a local court which ordered that the elder sibling be admitted to Mental Hospital for treatment and the younger one be admitted at an orphanage.

Five members of a family were killed when their car was hit by a tractor-trailer in Prayagraj early today, police said.

After doing sit-ups, one of the students experienced physical pains and developed high fever.

Early this morning, before dawn, a fire spread through the two top floors of a budget six-storey hotel in a congested central Delhi area, killing 17 occupants, including a child. As thick smoke and flames rose from the top floor of Arpit Palace Hotel in Karol Bagh, two died when they jumped off the building in a desperate attempt to save themselves. Officials said nearly all rooms of the 65-room hotel were occupied when the fire began at 4 am. The cause of the fire that started on the second floor is not known yet, though it is suspected to have originated from a short circuit.

Tragedy struck a Kerala family on Tuesday when three of its members died the fire in a Delhi hotel that killed 17 people. The family was a native of Kochi and was visiting the city to attend a wedding.

A 23-year-old man from Boisar in Maharashtra's Palghar district was arrested on Monday for allegedly holding his former lover captive in a lodge and raping her overnight, police said Tuesday.