News brief: Big stories of the day

Three people were dead after a six-storey building collapsed and fell on an adjoining four-storey building in Greater Noida near Delhi on Tuesday night. 

A day after US President Donald Trump refused to blame Russia for meddling in the 2016 US elections, Trump on Tuesday said he accepts US intelligence agencies' reports claiming Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

The 12 Thai boys who were rescued from a cave in northern Thailand will be discharged from hospital on Wednesday and meet their families for the first time, reports said. 

President Donald Trump said Tuesday there is no hurry to denuclearise North Korea under his accord with Kim Jong Un -- a shift in tone from when the US leader said the process would start very soon.  

With the Monsoon Session of the Parliament kick-starting on Wednesday, the Centre and Opposition would be looking forward to debates over a long pending list of bills and a slew of relevant issues.