A major fire broke out in the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday in the slums at the Tughlakabad area of Delhi. Around 1,000 to 2,000 shanties were reportedly caught ablaze in the fire.

According to the most recent updates, the situation is now fully under control and no casualty has been reported so far. As many as 30 fire tenders had been rushed to the spot.

A Pakistani-origin man has been arrested by the police in England's Derby for allegedly vandalising the Guru Arjan Dev Ji Gurudwara in the area on Monday. According to sources, the man had posted a message seeking support for Pakistan on the Kashmir issue before going on to vandalise the gurudwara.

Sources added that the officials have identified the apprehended individual as a man of Pakistani origin and that he is being held for the attack on the Guru Arjan Dev Ji Gurudwara that took place on Monday morning in Derby.

The headquarters on Indian Railways in Delhi, Rail Bhavan, will be closed for two days starting May 26 as one more employee tested positive for coronavirus on Monday. This is the second time in a fortnight that the Bhavan will be closed for sanitisation.

Reports have said that while the office in the building will remain shut for two days, the entire fourth floor will be closed till May 29. The entire building will be sanitised. During this period employees will work from home, an order said.

The police in Warangal district of Telangana on Monday arrested a man accused of killing 10 people, three days after nine bodies were found in an abandoned well in the area.

The accused has been identified as 26-year-old Sanjay Kumar Yadav, who originally hails from Bihar and was living in Warangal for six years.

The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) state government in West Bengal has on Saturday written to the Indian Railways, urging the latter to make provisions to stop sending 'Shramik Special' trains to the state till May 26 in view of the recent destruction left behind by Cyclone 'Amphan'.

In the letter that West Bengal Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha addressed to the Railway Board chairman VK Yadav, the former said that the state has been severely impacted by Super Cyclone Amphan on May 20-21 which caused extensive damage to the infrastructure.

All domestic flights are set to resume in India from May 25, i.e. Monday, the central government has informed as part of its graudal reboot of air travel services in the wake of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak.

According to sources, the very first domestic flight will be at 4:30 AM on Monday. It will take off from the Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. In the first phase, 28 domestic flights will take off from Delhi towards various destinations across India.

Chennai police on Saturday arrested DMK leader and Rajya Sabha MP RS Bharathi from his residence for his alleged 'derogatory remarks' against judges and people belonging to the scheduled castes (SC) community in a speech made in February this year. He was picked up by the polce2 from his residence.

The DMK leader was later in the day granted interim bail by Egmore court in Chennai.

The top intelligence agencies in the United States last week mulled over whether to conduct its first nuclear test since 1992, according to top news daily in the country.

The Washington Post revealed that a meeting took place between senior officials of national security agencies to discuss conducting a nuclear test following intelligence reports claiming that Russia and China are conducting low-yield nuclear tests.

After an official at the National Green Tribunal (NGT) tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection a day prior, the environmental organisation's New Delhi office was sealed late last night. All staff members who came in contact with the person have been asked to self-quarantine for 14 days.

At least 97 people have died while two survived after an aircraft belonging to the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) crashed in a densely populated residential area near the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi yesterday.

According to Pakistani media reports, it has now been confirmed by Sindh health officials that 97 out of the 99 people on-board died in the crash, while two passengers survived. The 99 people aboard the flight PK8303, which was en route from Lahore to Karachi, included 91 passengers and eight crew members.

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