New building standard makes fire safety advisory, raises height threshold to 24m

New Delhi: Residential buildings under 24 metres in height — a category that includes a large number multi-storey homes, such as the ill-fated one in Delhi’s Vivek Vihar — will fall outside the scope of “fire and life safety” provisions under the newly notified National Building Construction Standards (NBCS), which replaced the National Building Code…

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Rohit Sharma: MI vs LSG IPL 2026: Will Rohit Sharma play today for Mumbai Indians vs Lucknow Super Giants? | Cricket News

Rohit Sharma (Image credit: Mumbai Indians) NEW DELHI: The two bottom-placed teams – Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants – will face off in an IPL 2026 clash at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday. With their playoff hopes hanging by a thread, both sides are desperate to turn things around and shift into top gear.Mumbai…

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IPL 2026: ‘Fifth over for a bowler if…’- Sunil Gavaskar proposes drastic T20 rule change | Cricket News

Sunil Gavaskar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Agency Image) Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar has proposed a major tweak to IPL playing conditions, suggesting that bowlers who take a certain number of wickets in their spell should be rewarded with an additional over.Writing in his column for Mid Day, Gavaskar argued that modern T20 cricket, especially the…

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Farm groups and civil societies urge govt not to agree imports of GM farm products amid fresh round of India-US trade talks | India News

NEW DELHI: With a fresh round of trade negotiations between India and the US beginning in Washington, the Coalition for a GM-Free India — a network of farmers and civil society organisations — on Monday wrote to the central govt, urging it not to allow imports of genetically modified (GM) cotton seed oil, animal feed…

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