The death toll in the collapse of a building at Virar in Maharashtra's Palghar district has gone up to 15 with the recovery of three more bodies overnight, officials said on Thursday.

The unauthorised four-storey building, housing nearly 50 flats, collapsed on an adjacent vacant tenement at Vijay Nagar in Virar area at 12.05 am on Wednesday, they said.

Robin Westman, the 23-year-old suspected shooter in the Minneapolis school attack, had "kill Donald Trump" and "nuke India" written on his guns, as shown in chilling videos allegedly posted on his now-deleted YouTube channel. The YouTube channel titled "Robin W" had two videos posted hours before the attack. The videos in question showed a cache of weapons, ammunition, and loaded magazines before it was taken down by site administrators.

India has invited Russian companies to invest in innovative space ventures in the country and tap its vast market, Ambassador Vinay Kumar said on Tuesday.

"The Government of India has offered lucrative schemes to create a conducive atmosphere in the space industry," Kumar said while addressing a function at the Indian Embassy here to mark the second National Space Day.

H-1B visa programme a scam? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and several other Republicans believe so. Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, DeSantis called H-1B a “total scam”, saying it enables companies to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labour, mainly from India.

White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro has intensified his criticism of India’s oil policy, accusing New Delhi of directly funding Moscow’s war in Ukraine and dubbing the conflict “Modi’s war”. Speaking to Bloomberg Television on Wednesday (local time), he claimed India is profiting from discounted Russian crude while hurting the US economy.

“I mean Modi’s war, because the road to peace runs, in part, through New Delhi,” Navarro said, escalating tensions between the US and India.

India is planning dedicated outreach programmes in 40 countries, including the UK, Japan, and South Korea, to push textiles exports amid a 50 per cent tariff imposed by the US on Indian products, an official said on Wednesday.

Other nations include Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Belgium, Turkiye, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia.

Eternal Ltd, formerly known as Zomato, has been served with three orders by the Goods and Services Tax (GST) department, raising a demand of more than ₹40 crore. The orders, issued by the Joint Commissioner (Appeals)-4, Bengaluru, cover the period between July 2017 and March 2020.

According to the company’s regulatory filing late on Monday, the confirmed demand comprises GST of ₹17.19 crore, interest of ₹21.42 crore, and a penalty of ₹1.71 crore.

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday searched the premises of former minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and others as part of a money laundering probe linked to an alleged scam in health infrastructure projects during the previous AAP government in Delhi, official sources said.

At least 13 locations, including those of some private contractors and commercial real estate developers, in the National Capital Region are being searched under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off 'e-VITARA', Suzuki's first global strategic Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV), at the Suzuki Motor plant in Hansalpur, Ahmedabad.

The Made-in-India BEVs will be exported to more than a hundred countries, including advanced markets such as Europe and Japan, making India a global manufacturing hub for Suzuki's electric vehicles.

US President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday (local time) outlined its plan to impose 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods. The Department of Homeland Security released a draft notice on Monday, signalling the White House’s intent to move forward with its plan of levying additional tariffs on India as Trump tries to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

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