High drama was witnessed at the secretariat in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday after a minor fire broke out at the protocol department, with Opposition Congress and BJP alleging that important files relating to the gold smuggling case were destroyed, while the Kerala government suspected a 'conspiracy' by both parties. The incident happened on the second floor of the North Sandwich Block where certain sections of the General Administration and the tourism department are functioning.

The death toll in the building collapse incident in Maharashtra`s Raigad district rose to 14, it was reported on Wednesday, as the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) continues its search and rescue operation which has been going on for more than 36 hours now.

The five-storey residential building collapsed in Maharashtra's Raigad district on Monday evening. Following the incident, Maharashtra Minister Vijay Wadettiwar on Tuesday announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 5 lakh to the family of each person killed in the Raigad building collapse incident.

Amid the growing demand for postponement of NEET, JEE exams 2020, National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday confirmed that the exams will take place on the dates announced earlier.

JEE Mains exam 2020 will be held from September 1 to 6, while the NEET (UG) exam 2020 will be held on September 13.

The bidding process for the Private Player Train project will be extended for a month. The project will now invite bids from private players till October 7.

Previously, the bids were supposed to be handed over by September 8.

On August 12, The private companies involved in the bidding process had asked for more time and requested to extend the date of bidding from September 8.

Shares of Deepak Nitrite extended their winning run and gained 9 per cent to a fresh 52-week high of Rs 825 on the BSE on Tuesday. The stock had already risen 18.5 per cent in the last two sessions as compared to Sensex's 1.5 per cent gain during the same period.

At 11:46 AM, the stock had pared the day's gain and was trading 1.68 per cent lower at Rs 743.35. Around 58.13 lakh shares have changed hands on the NSE and BSE so far.

Shares of ICICI Bank extends its gains into fourth straight day, up 2.2 per cent to trade at Rs 388.85 on the BSE on Tuesday after Societe Generale on Monday offloaded shares of the bank worth nearly Rs 341 crore through an open market transaction.

"As per the block deal data on the BSE, 9 million scrips of the private lender were sold by Societe Generale at a price of Rs 378.6 per scrip. The total deal value stood at Rs 340.74 crore, said a PTI report.

Dr Reddys Laboratories Ltd tuesday announced its entry into the hospital nutrition segment with the launch of 'Celevida Maxx' in India.

It is a unique addition to Dr Reddys nutrition portfolio and is designed to help manage the nutritional needs of Cancer, Critical Care and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients in India, a press release from the company said.

On Tuesday morning, auditor of Vividrage Rhealityx (the company of Sushant Singh Rajput and Rhea Chakraborty) and late actor's chartered accountant Sandip Shridhar arrived at DRDO guest house in Santacruz, where the CBI team investigating the actor's death case, is staying. Sushant's roommate Siddharth Pithani and Neeraj Singh, who was the cook at his residence also reached DRDO guesthouse. The interrogation of three people will be starting in a while by the CBI team probing the death case of Sushant.

With more than 60,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Tuesday crossed the 31 lakh-mark, while the death toll has crossed the 58,000-mark as well.

At 9:30 AM on this day, the COVID-19 tally in the country has reached 31,67,324 cases, which include 7,04,348 active cases; 24,04,585 cured, discharged, or migrated patients, and 58,390 deaths.

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 23.5 million, while the deaths have increased to over 811,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

As of Tuesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 23,571,084 and the fatalities rose to 811,748, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

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