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Five persons, including four senior citizens, died and five others were injured after a major fire broke out in a 15-storey residential building in Tilak Nagar on Thursday. Four of the five deceased were women. Three of the victims seem to have died of smoke inhalation. The fire is suspected to have caused due to short circuit, a fire officer said. The building’s firefighting system wasn’t working, said a fire officer.

Five persons, including four senior citizens, died and five others were injured after a major fire broke out in a 15-storey residential building in Tilak Nagar on Thursday. Four of the five deceased were women. Three of the victims seem to have died of smoke inhalation. The fire is suspected to have caused due to short circuit, a fire officer said. The building’s firefighting system wasn’t working, said a fire officer.

The comments of Ramdev, who is considered close to BJP, come days after the party's defeat in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan assembly elections. Referring to the Ayodhya dispute, Ramdev claimed that BJP would lose trust if the Ram temple was not built in Ayodhya now.

However, while Zadaphia’s selection was interpreted as an indication that Hindutva themes such as Ram temple could be a significant part of the BJP campaign, he had fallen out with Narendra Modi when the latter was Gujarat CM and was billed to be a Hindutva strongman. He rebelled against Modi and floated ‘Maha Gujarat Janata Party’ for the 2009 Lok Sabha polls but lost to BJP’s Rajendra Singh Rana by 6,000 votes.

To create three or four-day weekends, employees will have to take more days off in 2019. As per some calculations, employees may have to take as many as 13 leaves during 2019. August and April 2019 will have the highest number of holidays, but employees still will have to take a few days off to create long weekends. The first long weekend of 2019 will start on January 12, a Saturday, and end with Makar Sankranti/Pongal on January 14, a Monday.

Both Gehlot and Pilot were in Delhi on Wednesday to hold talks with the party’s central leaders to iron out differences over portfolio allocation, sources said. Gehlot met senior Congress leaders Avinash Pande and KC Venugopal in the evening and subsequently all three of them met Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Pilot also reached Gandhi’s house when this meeting was on.

In response to a parliamentary question, the finance ministry said following amendments to the Banking Regulation Act, the Reserve Bank of India directed banks to initiate insolvency proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal in 41 cases, 12 of which had cumulative outstanding of Rs 1,97,769 crore as on March 31, 2017. The remaining 29 had an outstanding of Rs 1,35,846 crore as on June 30, 2017.

In response to a parliamentary question, the finance ministry said following amendments to the Banking Regulation Act, the Reserve Bank of India directed banks to initiate insolvency proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal in 41 cases, 12 of which had cumulative outstanding of Rs 1,97,769 crore as on March 31, 2017. The remaining 29 had an outstanding of Rs 1,35,846 crore as on June 30, 2017.

Jalan, who headed RBI during the tumultuous days after Pokhran II nuclear tests and subsequent US sanctions, has a reputation of being a pragmatic central banker. It was during his term that the Resurgent India Bond was floated to boost forex reserves. His term was marked with diplomacy when differences with the government were never allowed to boil over and come out in public.

The revised policy unveiled by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) on Wednesday also puts curbs on these players from selling products of companies where they have a stake. The changes in the policy have come against the backdrop of several domestic sellers complaining about deep discounting and alleged discrimination by e-commerce giants.

Health ministry’s apex panel — Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) — has cleared formation of the sub-committee to amend Medical Devices Rules, 2017, to include provisions for compensation on the grounds of a malfunction in the device, or it being unsafe or non-compliant.

Manchester City's bid to retain the Premier League title suffered a major blow as the champions crashed to a shock 2-1 defeat at Leicester on Wednesday. Just days after their surprise home loss to Crystal Palace, Pep Guardiola's side took the lead through Bernardo Silva's early goal.

The mixed doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and N Sikki Reddy and Malaysian Daren Liew defeated their more experienced opponents to help Ahmedabad Smash Masters beat Delhi Dashers in the Premier Badminton League here on Wednesday.

Cristiano Ronaldo came off the bench to score a late equaliser as 10-man Juventus salvaged a 2-2 draw at Atalanta on Wednesday to move nine points clear of Napoli at the top of Serie A.

Gujarat Fortunuegiants saw off a spirited fight from defending champions Patna Pirates to secure a 37-29 win in an Inter-Zone Wildcard Pro-Kabaddi League fixture here on Wednesday.

Dale Steyn became South Africa's leading Test wicket-taker and Duanne Olivier took career-best figures as Pakistan were bowled out for 181 on the opening day of the first Test on Wednesday.

The mechanical branch of Central Railway's Nagpur division has developed the robot named USTAAD (Undergear Surveillance Through Artificial Intelligence Assisted Droid), which examines parts of the coach in real time with an HD camera and transmits them over WiFi.

Former world number one Heena Sidhu equalled the women's 10m air pistol qualification world record at the national selection trials 1 and 2 while Youth Olympics champion Manu Bhaker finished second here on Wednesday.

A police official made this remark on Wednesday after security forces busted an underground hideout of terrorists in Awantipora area of Pulwama district where some of the top Hizbul Mujahideen commanders were believed to be hiding.