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Surat, March 11 – A massive fire broke out at a chemical warehouse in the Sachin industrial area of Surat on Wednesday, triggering a series of explosions and initiating a large emergency response, officials said.The blaze erupted at a warehouse belonging to Aether Industries, located in the...

Kolkata, March 9 A fire broke out at a confectionery firm's plant in the Anandpur area of Kolkata on Monday evening, officials said.Three fire tenders were able to extinguish the flames after over an hour, they said.The fire erupted around 8:15 pm, and employees present inside the facility...

Pratapgarh (UP), March 5 At least three girls are feared to have drowned while bathing in the Sharda canal in the Sangramgarh area here on Thursday. Search operations for the bodies are underway, police said.Additional Superintendent of Police (West) Brijnandan Rai said that Aanchal (14) and...

Thane, March 5 Six four-wheel vehicles, including two scrapped vehicles, were completely destroyed after a fire broke out at an auto garage complex in Thane city, Maharashtra, in the early hours of Thursday, an official said.No one was injured in the fire, which erupted around 1 am in the open...

Pune, March 4 A highly hazardous and flammable Mono-methylamine (MMA) gas leak was reported after a tanker got stuck in soft soil at a diversion along the Pune-Solapur Highway on Wednesday, causing panic among locals, officials said.No one was injured in the incident.Officials said the...

Surat, March 4 Seven people, including a 95-year-old man and children, were rescued after a fire broke out in a bungalow in the Surat district of Gujarat in the early hours of Wednesday, fire brigade officials said.No injuries were reported.Seven people were safely evacuated after a fire...

Kolkata, March 4 One person died after a fire broke out in a cluster of shops near the Madhyamgram railway station in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, officials said.The body of an employee from a sweetmeat shop was recovered from the damaged shop after fire service...

Kolkata, March 4 A fire broke out in a cluster of shops near the Madhyamgram railway station in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, officials said.There were no reports of any injuries or fatalities due to the fire, which erupted around 2 pm, they said."A total of eight to...

Thane, March 4 A car was completely destroyed, while a sports utility vehicle (SUV) parked nearby sustained partial damage after they caught fire on an open ground on Ghodbunder Road in Thane city, Maharashtra, on Wednesday, an official said.No one was injured in the incident that occurred...

Palghar, March 4 A 28-year-old driver from Punjab was killed after their tempo caught fire on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district, and a cleaner sustained serious injuries, police said on Wednesday.The incident, which disrupted traffic on the busy carriageway...

Palghar, March 3 Five workers were hospitalized after an ammonia gas leak at an Amul Milk plant in Virar, Maharashtra, on Tuesday morning, police said.The incident occurred at the plant located at Kaner Phata while workers were performing routine maintenance of the refrigeration system...

Jaipur, March 3 A fire broke out in an apartment on the sixth floor of a 10-story building in Jaipur's Shyam Nagar area on Tuesday morning, according to police.No casualties have been reported.Upon receiving information, Shyam Nagar police arrived at the scene and, with the help of...

Palghar, March 2 A major leak of hazardous oleum gas at a chemical plant in Palghar district, Maharashtra, on Monday led to the evacuation of over 2,600 people, including 1,600 school students, while three people reported minor eye irritation, officials said.The oleum (fuming sulfuric acid)...

Chandigarh, March 2 The regional passport office in Chandigarh received a bomb threat email on Monday, prompting authorities to conduct anti-sabotage checks after evacuating staff and applicants, police said.Nothing suspicious was found during the operation, they said.After receiving...

Jalandhar (Punjab), March 2 At least two schools in this city received bomb threat emails on Monday, prompting authorities to conduct anti-sabotage checks, officials said.Police, fire brigade officials, bomb squads, dog squads, and ambulances were rushed to the school premises.This latest...

Mumbai, March 1 A major fire broke out at a hotel in south Mumbai shortly after midnight on Sunday, officials said.No injuries were reported in the incident.The fire was reported at 12:57 am at Hotel Babel, located on Walchand Hirachand Road in the city's Fort area, fire brigade officials...

Pilibhit (UP), February 28 A man died after falling asleep inside a warehouse following a fire that broke out due to a short circuit in a village on Saturday, police said.It is suspected that the man died from suffocation as the warehouse in Kankor village was engulfed in flames and toxic...

Mumbai, February 28 A 55-year-old construction worker was killed and five others were injured on Saturday after they fell from an under-construction building in the Subhash Nagar area of Chembur, a Fire Brigade official said.Further details are pending.The deceased has been identified as...

Patna, February 28 A 65-year-old woman died in a fire at her house near the Karbigahiya railway station in Patna, according to police.The deceased has been identified as Malti Devi, a resident of Karbigahiya in the Jakkanpur police station area.According to a police statement, the fire broke...

Bhubaneswar, February 26 Some documents stored in the record room of the Odisha Lokayukta office were damaged in a minor fire that broke out on Thursday due to a suspected electrical short circuit, an official said.The fire broke out in one part of the record room of the office, located inside...