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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...

Mumbai, February 25 An SUV parked on LBS Road in the Vikhroli area of Mumbai caught fire on Wednesday evening, officials said.No one was injured in the incident. The car driver quickly exited the vehicle after noticing the flames. No other person was inside the car.The Fire Brigade received...

Jaunpur (UP), February 25 A major accident was narrowly avoided after a gas leak in an Indian Oil-Adani Gas Pvt Ltd (IOAGPL) pipeline triggered a fire in the Kotwali area of Jaunpur city on Wednesday, leaving two people injured, officials said.The incident occurred near the Phool Mandi area...

Large fire destroys house in DibrugarhA major fire broke out in the West Bashbari area of Dibrugarh late Tuesday night.The fire occurred at the home of Ajay Das, destroying the house along with two four-wheeled vehicles.Two gas cylinders also exploded during the incident, causing panic in...

Kolkata, February 24 A fire broke out on the fourth floor of a high-rise building in South Kolkata on Tuesday, officials said.The blaze, believed to have been caused by an explosion involving a cylinder on the fourth floor of the building on Southern Avenue, was noticed around noon, they said...

New Delhi, February 23 A massive fire that broke out in a cloth shop in the Old Seelampur area of northeast Delhi on Sunday evening is still raging after 22 hours, with multiple fire brigades deployed to control the flames, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said on Monday.No casualties...

Faridabad, February 23 A firefighter who was injured in a massive fire at a factory in Mujesar village here died on Monday morning, police said.With this, the death toll from the incident has risen to five.The deceased, identified as Ranveer Singh (48), was a resident of Atali village. Singh...

New Delhi, February 22 An LPG cylinder exploded while fire and police personnel were trying to extinguish a house fire in northwest Delhi's Majlis Park on Sunday, leaving 13 injured, officials said.The cylinder blast injured six police and fire personnel deployed at the house where a fire...

Faridabad, February 21 Two more people, including a sub-inspector and a fire personnel, died from burn injuries in a factory fire in the Mujesar area here, police said on Saturday.With this, the death toll in the fire that broke out on February 16 has risen to four, they said.Bhavichand...