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New Delhi, Apr 19 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 5.15 pm: NATION DEL15 DL-BUILDING-2NDLD COLLAPSE **** 4 dead, several trapped in multi-storey building collapse in northeast Delhi, rescue ops underway New Delhi: A multi-storey residential building collapsed in northeast Delhi’s Shakti Vihar area in the early hours of Saturday, killing four people and trapping several others under the debris, officials said. **** DEL11 NTA-JEE MAIN-LD RESULT **** JEE (Main) second edition: 24 candidates secure 100 NTA score; 110 cases of unfair means detected New Delhi: Twenty-four candidates secured a perfect 100 in the engineering entrance JEE (Main), the results of which were announced by the National Testing Agency on Saturday. **** DEL14 MEA-BANGLADESH-MINORITIES **** India condemns killing of Hindu minority leader in Bangladesh New Delhi: India on Saturday condemned the alleged abduction and killing of a Hindu minority leader in Bangladesh and called on the interim government in Dhaka to live up to its responsibility of protecting the minorities. **** DEL22 RAHUL-NEHRU **** Inherited truth, courage from Nehru: Rahul Gandhi New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru’s greatest legacy was giving Indians the courage to resist oppression and claim freedom, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday and added he inherited “truth and courage” from his great-grandfather — the country’s first prime minister. **** DEL7 NUCLEAR-PFBR **** India’s first prototype fast-breeder reactor to be commissioned by September 2026 New Delhi: India’s first prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tamil Nadu’s Kalpakkam is expected to be commissioned next year, nearly two years after it got the go-ahead from the nuclear regulator, officials have said. **** CAL8 OD-BJD-LD PATNAIK **** Patnaik becomes BJD president for 9th time, asks party workers to expose BJP”s ”false” narrative Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, who was chosen as the BJD president for the ninth time in a row, on Saturday called upon party workers to expose the alleged false narrative of the ruling BJP. **** BOM11 MH-LD UDDHAV **** Will not allow compulsion of Hindi in Maharashtra: Uddhav Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday asserted that his party will not allow making Hindi compulsory in Maharashtra after the state government decided to make Hindi a mandatory third language for students of classes 1 to 5. **** MDS10 KL-ACTOR ARREST-DRUG CASE **** Actor Shine Tom Chacko arrested in drug case Kochi: The police on Saturday arrested Malayalam film actor Shine Tom Chacko in connection with a drug case. **** MDS12 TN-MDMK-2ND LD DURAI VAIKO **** MDMK leader Durai Vaiko quits party post over internal squabbles Chennai: MDMK leader and its founder Vaiko’s son, Durai Vaiko on Saturday quit as the party’s principal secretary, in an apparent fallout of internal squabbles. **** LEGAL LGB3 GJ-COURT-EX-COLLECTOR **** Gujarat court sentences ex-IAS officer Pradeep Sharma, 3 others to 5 years RI in land allotment case Bhuj (Guj): A court in Gujarat’s Kutch district on Saturday sentenced former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma to five years of rigorous imprisonment in a 2011 case on irregularities in the allotment of government land to a private company that caused loss to the public exchequer when he was the then district collector. **** LGD2 SC-HATE CRIME-COMPENSATION **** SC to hear on Apr 23 plea for grant of uniform compensation to victims of hate crime New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on April 23 a plea seeking uniformity in granting compensation to the victims of hate crime and mob lynching. **** FOREIGN FES8 CANADA-INDIAN-SHOT **** Indian student killed by stray bullet in Canada’s Ontario New York: A 21-year old Indian student was killed in Canada after she was struck by a stray bullet as she was waiting at a bus stop on her way to work and shots were fired by a car occupant. **** FGN32 UK-US-TALKS-STARMER **** Keir Starmer holds ‘productive’ talks with Trump on UK-US trade deal London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he and President Donald Trump held “productive” talks on the ongoing discussions towards a trade agreement with the US to address the hefty import tariffs imposed by the American administration on countries around the world. By Aditi Khanna **** PTI RUK RUK RUK