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Hanoi witnessed a massive building fire which has killed over 50 people. The fire that broke out in a nine-story apartment building in Vietnam's capital killed at least 56 people, including at least four children, while 37 more are being treated, state media reported citing the police. Of the 56 people confirmed dead, the police have identified 39 victims, the state-owned Viet Nam News said Wednesday evening.

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Americans have been on a shopping spree for properties in Scotland.

New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notice to the resolution professional of Go First and the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on a plea filed by the airline's aircraft lessor BOC Aviation (Ireland) Ltd. The lessor sought further direction from the court on the inspection report submitted by them in the court. The court also noted that assets are valuable and “can't go like that".

‘Layover’, the solo debut album of BTS member Kim Taehyung has made history. It has sold over 2 million albums, thereby making V, the first Korean soloist in 23 years, with this distinction. He is also currently the best-selling soloist of all time on Hanteo. Fans were ecstatic, celebrating the idol’s milestone. Several diehard V stans had a field day, gushing about this landmark achievement on X (formerly Twitter). “Layover is now officially the first album by a soloist to sell over 2 million copies in its first week in Hanteo history! DOUBLE MILLION SELLER V CONGRATULATIONS TAEHYUNG,” wrote an overjoyed fan. Another gushed, “It's insane that Taehyung is the first K-pop artist to have a DEBUT album with 2 million first-week sales!!”

Narendra Modi will visit Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on Thursday to launch a slew of projects in the two states. His office said in a statement that he will lay the foundation stone of projects worth over ₹50,700 crore in Madhya Pradesh from an event in Bina in the state. The projects include a petrochemical complex at Bina refinery and 10 new industrial projects across the state.

MotoGP Bharat Grand Prix is all set to take place from September 22 to 24, 2023, at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. This three-day motorsports extravaganza promises high-speed action and adrenaline-pumping excitement for racing enthusiasts.

Dozens of people died in a fire at an apartment block in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, state media said Wednesday, with witnesses reporting screams from inside and a small child was thrown from the building. The fire started just before midnight on Tuesday (1700 GMT) in the parking floor of the 10-storey building, witnesses said, an area packed with residents' motorbikes. "Authorities have rescued about 70 people, rushing to hospital 54 people, including dozens of dead," the official Vietnam News Agency said.

iPhone 15 series on Tuesday. The Tim Cook-led company had unveiled four new iPhones - iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max - during the Wonderlust event at Apple Park in Cupertino. Apple had launched the iPhone 14 and iPhone Plus in September last year at a starting price of ₹79,900 and ₹89,900 respectively.

van Gogh painting snatched from a Dutch museum during the Covid-19 lockdown, AFP looks back at some other heists involving works by the Dutch master: On August 21, 2010, Van Gogh's "Poppy Flowers", worth $55 million at the time, was cut out of its frame in broad daylight at the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum outside Cairo. An investigation revealed that the museum's alarm system did not work and that 30 out of 47 surveillance cameras were out of order. It was the second time the small painting from 1887, which is still missing, had been stolen — the first was in 1997, when it was taken from the same museum and was found only 10 years later, in Kuwait. Van Gogh's «Blossoming Chestnut Branches» (1890), among four Impressionist masterpieces valued at more than 112 million euros, was stolen from a Zurich museum on February 10, 2008, in one of Europe's biggest-ever art heists.

Apple introduced an impressive line-up of iPhone 15 series, Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 at the highly-anticipated Apple Event. From achieving a significant environmental milestone to unveiling the most efficient chipsets, the company put up quite an impressive show at the corporate headquarters of Apple Park in Cupertino, California. The iPhone-maker expanded its smartwatches line-up with impressive offerings.

New Delhi: On Tuesday, Apple unveiled its latest generation smartphone, the iPhone 15 lineup, at its Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California. While the smartphones in the lineup were largely in line with Apple’s incremental upgrades offered every year, this year marked the first time that Apple began assembling its latest generation iPhones in time for the first batch of the smartphones to be sold—in India and around the world. The iPhone 15, launched with a higher resolution OLED display, a higher resolution 48MP camera, the A16 Bionic custom processor designed in-house for the iPhone 14 Pro last year, and the pill-shaped 'Dynamic Island' notch that was also introduced in the latter, will be available in India starting 22 September, and is priced onward of ₹79900.

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Amazon.com on Tuesday will unveil its new Manhattan office at the former Lord & Taylor flagship department store, a transformation that highlights how complex office conversions can be. Turning a Fifth Avenue department store that is more than a century old into a modern office came with plenty of challenges. Amazon had to add bathrooms, kitchens, new elevators and stairs wide enough for a rush of office workers.

Lieutenant Colonel posted in Dehradun has been arrested by the city police for his alleged involvement in the murder of a 25-year-old woman from Siliguri. The accused, identified as Lt Col Ramendu Upadhyay, is facing grave charges of smashing the victim's head with a hammer and leaving her lifeless body next to a road in Dehradun. This incident has sent shockwaves through the city. According to a TOI report, Lt Col Upadhyay initially met the young woman while stationed in West Bengal, where she was employed at a dance bar.

G20 Summit, where India flagged the presence of Khalistani extremists in Canada, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was given an open death threat by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun at an event in Canada just as Canadian PM Justin Trudeau left for his country. The chief of the banned US-based Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) outfit, Pannun, was speaking at a referendum organised in Surrey, Vancouver at the Guru Nanak Singh Gurudwara on September 10. In his address, he openly threatened of ‘political death’ of PM Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and EAM S Jaishankar in India.

North Korea, Russia, and China on one side against South Korea, Japan, and the United States. In case North Korea chooses to supply arms to Russia, the already heavy Western sanctions against the country can intensify. The experts claim that Russia has everything, the troubled North Korean economy demands.

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Nifty, Sensex and Bank Nifty are still trading around record highs. In such a situation when stock market is witnessing participatory rally for long, mutual fund managers find it difficult to find stocks that may yield in sync with majority of indices are stocks also soar to record high. In fact, they outperform indices generating alpha returns.

AR Rahman's recent concert sent shockwaves through Chennai as it brought East Coast Road (ECR) to a standstill, prompting an urgent inquiry into the mayhem by DGP Shankar Jiwal. Notably, even Chief Minister M K Stalin's convoy was ensnared in the traffic snarl, adding to the urgency of the situation.

Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia on Tuesday for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin that is likely to focus on Russia's desire to buy ammunition to refill reserves drained by its war in Ukraine. The meeting will also underscore deepening cooperation as the two isolated leaders are locked in separate confrontations with the U.S. In return for providing ammunition, North Korea will likely want shipments of food and energy and transfers of sophisticated weapons technologies. A meeting with Putin would be Kim's first with a foreign leader since North Korea closed its borders in January 2020. They met for the first time in April 2019, two months after Kim's high-stakes nuclear diplomacy with then-U.S.