Rajasthan News Live Updates: 2 medical students dead, one injured as motorbike rams into stationary truck in Jhalawar

Three people including a woman died in an explosion at a firecracker manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu's Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district on Thursday. Expressing anguish over the demise, Chief Minister M K Stalin ordered a solatium of Rs 3 lakh each to the victims' families. An unexpected blast at the firecracker making factory in Oorampatti village in Sivakasi led to the deaths of S Kumaresan, R Sundararaj and K Ayyammal, an official release said.

A 20-year-old worker died and nine others were injured when a building under construction collapsed in Bharatpur district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place near Jhantli village under the Sikri police station area late Wednesday night, they said. The building belongs to a madrassa. Ten labourers were working at the site when the building collapsed, police said, adding the incident might have been caused due to Wednesday evening's rainfall and hailstorm. (PTI)

Police on Thursday found remains of a cow in northwest Delhi's Aman Vihar area and launched an investigation into the animal's slaughter. Police collected the slaughtered cow's body parts, including its head, on a tip-off from bushes in the area. A crime team inspected the spot and sent the remains to veterinary hospital for post mortem, a senior police officer said. (PTI)

Haryana Police arrested 4 miscreants and seized 4 bulletproof jackets, 4 bulletproof helmets, 1 country-made pistol, 16 cartridges, a mobile phone and 1 WiFi dongle from their possession. The accused are linked to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, reports ANI quoting Haryana police.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday announced that Dwarka Expressway, India's first elevated urban expressway, being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 10,000 crore as part of the Delhi decongestion plan, will be completed in the next 3-4 months.

Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi on Thursday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Delhi for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the alleged land-for-jobs scam.

Five people were killed and over a dozen injured in a head-on collision between a sleeper passenger bus and a tractor-trolley on Maksi-Ujjain road in Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh early on Thursday morning.

Former Union minister and BJP MP from Ambala parliamentary constituency in Haryana, Rattan Lal Kataria breathed his last on Thursday. He was 72 and was admitted to PGIMER Chandigarh for the past few days for the treatment of pneumonia. His last rites would be performed at the Manimajra-based cremation ground.

A man was killed in an alleged firing incident near Ya-Rub-Chala De Hotel in Delhi's Jama Masjid on Wednesday late night, said the police.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone and dedicate railway projects worth over Rs 8,000 crore to the state on Thursday through video link.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Prasad Yadav are among the guests to be invited by the Congress to the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in Karnataka, party state president Akhilesh Prasad Singh said on Wednesday.

Zafaryab Jilani, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) secretary who represented the Muslim side in the protracted legal battle over the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, died at a Lucknow hospital on Wednesday after a prolonged illness.

After TOI reported last week that 35 acres of Aravali forest area had been cleared for construction of farmhouses off the Golf Course Extension Road, the forest department on Wednesday sent notices to more than a dozen people and said it will restore the area within a week. The area in Behrampur village comes under the Aravali plantation project, which gives it protection under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980.