Teams of National Disaster Response Force were trying to find out any person still trapped under the debris, officials said.
"The victim girl was a brave and courageous girl who fought till the very last minute for her dignity and her life. She is a true hero and symbolises the best in Indian youth and women. The nation should mourn the passing of this brave daughter of India," Satnam Singh Chahal president of North American Punjabi Association said.
This is a story of a law graduate who had come to Kerala seeking spiritual answers only to be killed brutally allegedly by the warden of a mental hospital.
A youth from Bihar, who was arrested in connection with an incident at Mata Amritanandamayi Ashram in Kollam on August 1, had died of torture at the mental asylum where he was admitted after the incident, the crime branch said in Thiruvananthapuram.
The power sector lender is mulling the coupon it would be offered in a falling interest rate scenario.
State-run Power Finance Corporation (PFC) on Thursday said it has appointed four merchant bankers - Goldman Sachs, JM Financial, DSP Merill Lynch and ICICI Securities - to manage the Rs 5,600 crore (Rs 56 billion) follow-on public offer.
Political asylum is the right to live in a foreign country, and is given by the government of that country to people who have to leave their own country because they are in danger of persecution.
These detainees, a significant number of whom are from Punjab, are seeking asylum, claiming that they 'experienced violence or persecution' in India.
The Special Investigation Team of the Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday arrested three police officers, including a former district police chief, on the charges of tampering with evidence in a sensational murder case in Jammu last month.
23 trains have been partially cancelled and five short terminated till September 26 as protesters blocked rail tracks at various places, including Amritsar, Ferozepur, Sangrur, Barnala, Mansa and Nabha.
India has taken up with Australia the incident of some unidentified people setting fire at an under-construction building on the premises of a gurdwara in Melbourne.
Milkha Singh, 92, best known as the 'Flying Sikh' and most remembered for finishing fourth in the 400m final in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, was bestowed with the lifetime achievement award.
The heavyweights among the ministers that make up the Central government have spent their time schmoozing at the right places, wearing the right attire and, of course, making the right noises without an iota of action.
Those in the fray include three Power Finance Corp officials believed to be among the front-runners for the post of the company's chairman and managing director, as the present chief V K Garg retires on July 31 next year.
Meet Vidisha Baliyan, the first-ever Indian to win the title of Miss Deaf World 2019.
Six policemen, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, were on Friday convicted by a Patiala court for kidnapping and murdering human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra in 1995.
The duo, who were arrested from their residences, were allegedly involved in the conspiracy of bomb blast and were actively helping Charanjit Singh, already in police custody, in preparation of IED and procurement of the explosive material.
The court asked the commissioner to furnish report regarding investigation against all the accused who have returned to India after serving jail terms in Pakistan.
'This initiative is not about finding more sponsors or marketing partners. It's about developing elite basketball prospects'
As thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, braved water cannons and teargas to camp at the national capital's borders to demand a rollback of the laws and their representatives held talks with the government, the songs flowed, speaking of pride of the land, strength in unity and the rights of the people fighting a mighty establishment.
Vinod Bansal blamed the lawyer of shoddy work.
In heart-wrenching scenes reminiscent of the aftermath of the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, coffins of soldiers arrived in several states for the last rites with full military honours.
While the plan had to be aborted the first time because Lal had arrived late for an election meeting in Hissar, the second attempt was to be made at a rally in Ambala in which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was also present.
Satnam Singh had been prepared by the militant group to be used as a human bomb.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has planned to launch NBA AcademyIndia, an elite basketball training centre in the National Capital Region (NCR), next April for the top men and women prospects from across the country.
Palpreet Singh, winner of the ACG-NBA Jump National Finals, India's first national basketball talent search program, was selected 11th in the fourth Round of the NBA D-League Draft held in New York.
Now, with an aim to make basketball the second-most followed sport in India, the NBA launched its customized NBA.com in Mumbai on Wednesday.
The Indian armyman broke a three-year-old record in the 800 metres in the Federation Cup Athletics Championships.
A defence lawyer said the Canadian police encouraged the key witness to obtain information from convicted Inderjit Singh Reyat and his wife.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim, head of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect, is no regular godman.
What a year Sania Mirza, Leander Paes, Saina Nehwal, Vijender Singh and Anirban Lahiri had!
India's rice exports have not been hurt because of the war in Iraq but could face a slowdown in shipments to Kuwait, traders and analysts said on Wednesday.\n\n\n\n
Top seed Sameer, who won the Swiss Open earlier this year, had to dig deep into his reservoir to outwit compatriot Pratul Joshi 16-21, 26-24, 21-7 in 55 minutes. In another quarter-final, Gurusaidutt, a former Commonwealth Games bronze medallist, recovered from a game down to beat Malaysia's Lim Chi Wing 13-21, 22-20, 21-11 in 59 minutes.
The United States is looking forward to welcoming the new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington, but refrained from making any announcement on the possible trip in September.
Security agencies were on their toes and a combing operation was on in and around Tibri military cantonment area in Gurdaspur, a day after some locals in a nearby village claimed sighting of two men in army fatigues moving in suspicious manner.
'The fatal mistake for the USSR was the invasion of Afghanistan.' 'Quite possibly the fatal mistake for the Chinese empire is the assault on Ladakh,' observes Rajeev Srinivasan.
A 67-year-old resident, Mangat Ram and a BSF jawan was injured in the firing.
According to a FOIA request in 2015, more than 900 Indians were in various federal prisons on charges of illegally staying in the country.
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