Correspondent

An artisan gives finishing touches to an idol of Lord Ganesh ahead of the 'Ganeshotsav' in Nadia, West Bengal, on Tuesday. A man holds a child during a celebration to mark the annual feast of the birth of the Virgin Mary, also known as the Feast of the Nativity, at a church in Hyderabad on Tuesday. An Indian Air Force Chinook helicopter airlifts an Ultra Light Howitzer (ULH) during underslung operational preparedness training under the aegis of the Eastern Command at the Panagarh Military...

Children use makeshift boats to move on an inundated area following the rise in the water level of Ganga River in Patna on Monday. Artists perform during the foundation stone-laying ceremony of development projects at Gauhati University in Guwahati on Monday. A man collects water lilies from a pond in Nadia on Monday. A man arranges Lord Ganesh idols on a roadside shop ahead of the Ganeshotsav in Rishikesh on Monday. Women from Dogra community perform rituals during the 'Bacch Dua' festival...

The collapse of the Delhi hostel which has left six people dead and several more injured brings into sharp relief the dangerous disconnect between what is sanctioned and what is actually built in Indian cities. The structure was reportedly sanctioned only up to ground-plus-one, yet had grown to five storeys and was being used as a densely occupied student hostel. While the investigation will establish whether the basement alterations, weakened pillars, waterlogging or some other structural...