The death toll in the Bhiwandi building collapse site which took place here on Monday rose to 33 on Wednesday, National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) informed.

The deceased include Jhuber Khureshi, Faija Khureshi, Ayesha Khureshi, Siraj Abdul Sheikh, Fatma Jubera, Siraj Ahmed Sheikh among others.

Russia said it is ready to offer its 'Sputnik V' COVID-19 vaccine free of charge for voluntary vaccination of the staff of the United Nations (UN) and its offices.

The country will soon hold a virtual conference for those nations keen in cooperation in the development of anti-coronavirus vaccines, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 31.2 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 963,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

As of Tuesday, total number of cases stood at 31,201,975 and the fatalities rose to 963,068, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

Made-in-India short-video sharing platform, Chingari, has announced that it has crossed more than 30 million downloads.

The social app said in a statement it achieved the feat in a matter of three months, with content creators making a beeline to join it.

Gold prices today fell to Rs 54,760 from Rs 54,870 per 10 gm, while silver was trending at Rs 67,000 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery prices vary across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making charges.

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea are busy dialing their legal teams to interpret what the Supreme Court meant when it said 10 per cent of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues must be paid by March 31, 2021, even as the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) believes there's no ambiguity in the order.

While these telcos maintain they have already paid more than the 10 per cent of their AGR dues, the DoT view — that the companies will have to pay 10 per cent of the total dues by March 31, 2021, irrespective of what one has already paid — has turned the industry calculation topsy turvy.

In an under-4 minute video message, India`s Prime Minister Narendra Modi showed United Nations the mirror and urged it to take a long, hard look at its crisis of confidence while ratcheting up the call for a new template of multilateralism that reflects today`s realities on Day One of the United Nations high-level week being live-streamed to the world from the UN headquarters in New York City.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) probe in a drug case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death has led to several new twists and on Monday names of many Bollywood celebs were taken in connection with the case and some of them were also said to be summoned soon.

Meanwhile, new WhatsApp chats of some other B-Town stars have yet again hinted at the prevalence of drug nexus in the film industry. The chats surfaced during the NCB probe.

India has recorded very high single-day COVID-19 recoveries successively during the last three days with over 90,000 recovered each day for the last three days, said Union Health Ministry on Tuesday. The recoveries account for more than 19% of the world total. The country achieved a record high of 1,01,468 COVID19 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

The death toll in the three-storey building collapse incident in Maharashtra's Bhiwandi rose to 20, said the Thane Municipal Corporation.

Death toll rises to 20 in the Bhiwandi building collapse, which took place in Thane district of Maharashtra on Monday, according to the Thane Municipal Corporation.

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