Harsh Vardhan Shringla appointed next foreign secretary | LIVE UPDATES

Senior diplomat and Indian Ambassador to US, Harsh Vardhan Shringla will be India's next foreign secretary. He will replace current foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale. 

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Counting of votes in Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2019 began at 8 am today. You can watch the Jharkhand Election Results 2019 LIVE with IndiaTvNews.com. 

Postal ballots are being counted as of now and early trends give Congress-JMM+ an early lead but BJP is emerging as the single largest party. Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das is leading from the Jamshedpur East constituency. BJP's Naveen Jaiswal is leading from Hatia constituency. JMM's Hemant Soren is leading from Dumka constituency. While BJP is trailing from Jharia constituency, a seat BJP has never lost. CPI (ML) is also leading from one constituency. BJP is leading from Chakradharpur. Lakshman Gilua is BJP candidate from Chankradharpur. Congress candidate from Bokaro, Shweta Singh has established an early lead. 

To follow Ranchi Constituencies Result LIVE you can click here. 

New Delhi: A deadly fire ripped through a three-storey residential-cum-commercial building in outer Delhi's Kirari area, killing at least nine people including three children, the Delhi Fire Service said. Rescue operations were on at the time of writing of this report. 

According to the Delhi Fire Service, eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot after a call of fire at a house was received at 12.30 AM.
The ground floor of the building housed a godown for clothes while the other three floors were residential in nature. 

(PTI reports)

Rahul Gandhi will hold a protest rally in Delhi's Raj Ghat today at 3 pm. The Congress MP took to his Twitter handle to announce about his rally against CAA and NRC.

The death toll rises to 9 in the fire which broke out in a cloth godown in Kirari late last night around 12:30. The fire has been doused and the injured have been admitted to hospital.

Telangana: Police arrested a manager of a bank for allegedly shooting his pet dog with an air-gun, in Bapu Nagar of Hyderabad, yesterday. E Srinivas Reddy, Circle Inspector, Saroornagar police station says, "A case has been registered and probe is on."

Madhya Pradesh: A 15-year-old rape victim committed suicide in Ashapur village of Khargone. ASP Khargone says, "We got info that a minor girl has committed suicide. We investigated and found out that the girl was raped because of which she took the step. A woman police officer had gone for investigation in connection with rape incident, the girl was asked to come to police station to report but she didn't come. We have registered a case&accused has been arrested. "