As large as an eight to 10-storey building, the bat weighs 950 kg and is nearly 32 times longer than a standard bat.
Red Bull FMX athletes Robbie Maddison, Alexey Kolesnikov and Tom Pages turned into Superman in front of the Gateway of India in Mumbai.
At least 16 people were killed as the building near the J J Hospital in south Mumbai caved in.
'... their love was jinxed.' 'His celluloid path to his partner's heart was seldom smooth; it had to contend with greedy relatives and indecisive sweethearts, who were more ready to sacrifice than woo and wed.'
A solitary patch of violet stands out in what are walls blackened high with soot, a reminder of a room that was once coloured with shades of content and is now littered with the detritus of a riot -- except for a bed on which sits Nazar Mohammad. His three-storey home in northeast Delhi's Shiv Vihar Phase 7, one of the worst-hit areas in the recent riots, tells the story of not just three days of clashes but also of hope rising from the ashes of violence.
Among the deceased were a woman and her four sons.
The world's most expensive billionaire home is in Mumbai.
'We were scared about what would happen if these terrorists managed to enter the building.'
When it was operational, Jet Airways had over 22,000 employees of them over 16,000 were on the rolls.
Perhaps no other skyscraper is as infamous as Venezuela's 'Tower of David', a 45-storey unfinished building that has housed approximately 5,000 squatters since 2007.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The incident that claimed 43 live and left 16 injured brought back tragic memories of the Uphaar cinema hall blaze in 1997.
"The blaze started on the 10th floor of the building, Sargam Society (G+16), located near Ganesh Garden in Tilak Nagar.
The curtains have come down on the organisation that, for 64 years, was responsible for the country's planned development.
BJP leader Vinay Katiyar said like a Shiva temple, water drips from the ceiling in the Taj Mahal.
Sixteen fire engines were deployed to douse the flames.
Bodies of 2 fireman were retrieved from the debris of a collapsed four-storey building in the wee hours, even as firefighting continued today after a major a fire broke out in it last night, in the Sector 17 area of the city, officials said.
Fire brigade, Mumbai Police and civic officials rushed to the site to carry out the rescue operation.
An encounter with movie veteran Chandrashekhar.
The family of the fire-fighter who was killed in the massive fire that engulfed a 22-storeyed commercial building in Mumbai on Friday has refused to take his body, CNN IBN reported.
The 'Rashtriya Sahara' office in the New Delhi House building on Barakhamba Road in Connaught Place, received a call that the structure would be blown up. Police was immediately informed and bomb disposal squads were rushed to the spot and a search conducted for about two hours.
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The fire broke out at 2.15 pm on the terrace of the six-storeyed building, which is located in the high security India Gate-Parliament House area, the Delhi fire department said.
Hundreds of artisans every Dussehra would earn enough this season to see them through the entire year. Not this time though with COVID-19 continuing its spread and fear of contracting the disease keeping most people away from festivities.
A father-son duo was killed while another man was injured when a three-storey building collapsed in North Delhi's Bara Hindu Rao area on Wednesday morning.
Thirty fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the fire in the building that houses over 400 business establishments at the wholesale market.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed real estate giant Supretech to give back money to flat owners who had sought refund of their investments within a month after its 40-storey residential twin towers Apex and Ceyane in Noida were directed to be demolished by Allahabad High Court.
A 22-year-old woman tried to kill herself by jumping out of a seven-storey residential building in Changchun, Jilin province of China on Tuesday.
'The foundation is grateful to both central and state government for establishment of these sports facilities after many years of struggle since its inception in 2006'
India has been arguing that tax cannot be levied as the diplomatic staff, who occupy the apartments, are exempted from tax, but US District Court Judge Jed S Rakoff ruled Monday that under Vienna conventions, only the residence of head of the mission is exempted. The Indian Ambassador to the United Nations has a residence in a nearby building in Manhattan and the residential apartments in the Mission building are occupied by the junior diplomatic staff.
Move over T-rex, scientists have discovered the bones of the world's biggest dinosaur, as heavy as 14 African elephants and equal to a seven-storey building, in Argentina
'It is possible that these terrorists took advantage of the chaos and escaped in the melee.'
The enormous dump -- estimated to be as high as a 15-storey building -- looms like a dark mountain on the side of NH24, a busy highway that connects Delhi to Uttar Pradesh.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaur gave five days to the investigating agencies to inspect the premises before it is handed over to Saad's family. The court was hearing an application filed by Saad's mother Khalida seeking unlocking of the premises where they resided.
A 28-year-old labourer from Odisha's Kendrapara district had a providential escape from the claws of death in the Chennai building collapse, which claimed 61 lives.
Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Sunday, a day after Egypt called for an open-ended ceasefire to enable fresh truce negotiations to end the 48-day war which has left over 2,100 people dead in the coastal strip.
It isn't everyday that Donald Trump comes to Mumbai. Today is that day.
The border guarding force has the maximum confirmed cases of the disease among the Central Armed Police Forces, also known as paramilitary forces.
Standing 309.6 metres (1,016 ft) high, the Shard is the second-tallest building in Europe, and the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom.
The 60-metre high 19-storey building, known as "Holy Faith H20, was levelled in seconds in a spectacular implosion.
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