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Ketan Jorawadia said, "I took the ladder and first helped the children to get out of the place. I managed to save 8-10 students from the back side of the building."

After serving Sikkim as chief minister for over 24 years, Pawan Kumar Chamling on Saturday said he respects the mandate of the people and is ready to discharge the role of an opposition leader.

Former Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal and his wife were stopped by Mumbai immigration from travelling abroad, news agency PTI reported on Saturday.

In an unusual move underlining the gravity of the situation, West Bengal Director General of Police Virendra on Friday visited the Jaggatdal police station area - 40 km from Kolkata - for a first-hand assessment of post-poll tensions bordering on the communal in the area.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been formally elected as leader of the National Democratic Alliance or NDA at a meet of the victorious BJP-led alliance in the central hall of parliament today. Leaders of the NDA one by one spoke in the central hall and supported the move to elect PM Modi. The PM was also elected as the leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party.

Rahul Gandhi, speaking at a meeting of the Congress's top decision-making body today, insisted that he did not want to continue as party president after its debacle in the national election. He remained firm on his decision to quit even after the party unanimously rejected it.

The US ambassador to China has called on Beijing to open a "substantive dialogue" with the Dalai Lama in remarks made this week during a rare visit to Tibet, his embassy said Saturday.

Incidents of violence were reported from across West Bengal on Saturday in which one person died and many were injured, officials said, as a face-off brewed between the ruling Trinamool Congress and a surging BJP after the Lok Sabha results were declared.

Three of the 20 students who died in a massive fire at a commercial complex in Gujarat's Surat on Friday had appeared for the Class 12th Board exams and cleared them comfortably, as per results that were declared today.

Mamata Banerjee, speaking to the media for the first time since the results of the national election, has said that she "does not want to continue as the chief minister" of West Bengal. "The party (Trinamool Congress) has not accepted my decision," she said.

Naveen Patnaik has continued his grip over Odisha with his party, BJD, winning 112 Assembly seats in the 147-member House.

YSR Congress President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Saturday met the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governor ESL Narasimhan and staked claim to form government in Andhra Pradesh.

The woman who accused Karan Oberoi of raping her was attacked with a sharp object by the two men at around 6:30 am this morning and has been injured, her advocate said.

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan's Makkal Needhi Maiam may have drawn a blank in the Lok Sabha polls, but its electoral performance hints at a potential threat to the AIADMK and the DMK in the 2021 assembly elections. The MNM secured 3.72 per cent votes in the 35 constituencies it contested in, which is no mean feat for a party that was launched just over a year ago.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump have agreed to meet at the G-20 Summit in Japan next month as both the leaders pledged to further strengthen the US-India strategic partnership and build on the achievements of the last two years.