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Thane, March 18 A major fire broke out on the seventh floor of a residential building in the Manpada area of Thane city on Wednesday evening, according to a civic official, who added that no one was reported injured in the incident.The fire started in the Snowdrop Building, located within the...

Ahmedabad, March 18 A fire broke out in a wholesale cloth market in Ahmedabad's Kalupur area on Wednesday afternoon, engulfing over 25 shops. However, no casualties were reported in the blaze, fire officials said.The fire was reported at 1:35 pm, and around 36 fire tenders were dispatched to...

Chandigarh, March 18 A fire broke out in a shop in Sector 22 here, one of the busiest commercial zones in the city, on Wednesday, officials said. No casualties have been reported so far.The fire started on the first floor of a shop and spread to the adjacent shops.An official said that more...

Palghar, March 17 A fire broke out at a pharmaceutical company in the Palghar district of Maharashtra on Tuesday morning, an official said.There were no reports of any casualties, Vivekanand Kadam, chief of the district disaster management cell, said.The fire erupted at the pharmaceutical...

Ballia (UP), March 16 A 22-year-old woman and her son died, while her husband sustained injuries after a fire broke out at a commercial establishment in a village in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday, a senior police official said.According to the police, the deceased were...

Islamabad, March 15 – Pakistan's judicial commission investigating the devastating January 17 fire at the Gul Plaza mall in Karachi was told that rescue services arrived late and failed to evacuate people trapped inside during the crucial early hours of the blaze, local media reported.The...

Chennai, March 15 – A tragic explosion involving a cooking gas cylinder at a house in Navalur, near Chennai, on Sunday resulted in the death of two children and left four others seriously injured, authorities said.The incident occurred at a residence on 2nd Street in Chamundeswarar Nagar, a...

Mumbai, March 14 Separate fire incidents were reported at a timber warehouse and a residential building in the suburbs of Govandi and Borivali in Mumbai on Saturday morning, officials said.No one was injured in these incidents.A civic official said a fire broke out in a timber warehouse on...

Palghar, March 13 The administration in Maharashtra's Palghar district conducted a high-intensity mock drill at the Tarapur MIDC in Boisar on Friday to test emergency response mechanisms in the event of a major industrial disaster, a senior official said.The drill, carried out in coordination...

Kolkata, March 10 – A fire broke out in the Anandapur area, on the southern outskirts of Kolkata, according to police on Tuesday.This time, the fire occurred in the factory of a well-known cake manufacturing company. However, there have been no reports of any injuries. An investigation into...

New Delhi, March 7 A fire broke out in a banquet hall in Moti Nagar, west Delhi, on Saturday, prompting authorities to dispatch five fire tenders, according to an official of the Delhi Fire Services.No injuries were reported in the incident, the official said.Upon receiving a call regarding...

Chandigarh, March 7 Four women workers were killed and at least 11 others were injured after a fire broke out at a 'gulal' (powdered colour) manufacturing unit in Jind district, Haryana, on Saturday, police said.The fire allegedly erupted at the entrance of the factory – located in a...

Ghaziabad, March 6. Panic spread in the area after a major fire broke out on Thursday night in a paint factory and a scrap warehouse in the Mainapur Industrial Area, located on Meerut Road in Ghaziabad. The fire was so intense that thick black smoke could be seen from a distance.As soon as the...

Kolkata, March 4 – One person was killed and several others sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out in Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district on the day of Holi, police said on Wednesday.The identity of the deceased has not yet been established, police sources said, adding that...

Hyderabad, March 4 As many as 22 temporary roadside sheds where furniture was manufactured and sold were completely destroyed after a fire broke out in one of them here, and no one was injured in the incident, police and fire department officials said on Wednesday.The massive fire occurred in...

Ghaziabad, March 4 – A massive fire broke out in the early hours of Wednesday on the ground floor of a multi-story building in Khoda Colony, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, injuring several people and causing panic among residents.According to preliminary information, the fire started on the ground...

Bokaro, March 3 A fire broke out at a tent house in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand on Tuesday evening, which triggered an explosion of LPG cylinders kept inside it, police said.So far, no casualties have been reported from the incident, they said.The incident occurred near Siwandih More...

New Delhi, March 2 At least three schools, including Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and Salwan Public School, in the city received bomb threat emails on Monday morning, prompting multiple security agencies to rush to the premises and conduct thorough checks, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said...

Kozhikode (Kerala), February 28 Four people died after a car collided with a parked truck here in the early hours of Saturday, police said.The deceased have been identified as Dhinil of Ramanattukara and Ajeesh, Vimal, and Shyamlal, all residents of Feroke.Police said another person...

Jaipur, February 27 – A major tragedy was narrowly averted in Jaipur on Friday after a bus belonging to the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation (RSRTC) caught fire near the Mansarovar RICO intersection.Approximately 60 passengers on board were able to evacuate in time and escaped...