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New Delhi, March 5 An electric bus belonging to the Delhi Transport Corporation caught fire near a hospital on the Mehrauli-Badarpur road in south Delhi on Thursday afternoon, officials of the Delhi Fire Services said.All passengers were safely evacuated in time, with no injuries reported...

New Delhi, March 5 A massive fire swept through a cluster of slums in Delhi's Rithala area early on Thursday, killing a 17-year-old girl and destroying more than 100 huts, leaving dozens of migrant families homeless.Firefighters recovered the charred body of the girl, who had initially been...

New Delhi, March 5 A fire broke out at a warehouse located in the Rangpuri area of Delhi on Thursday, according to a Delhi Fire Services official.No casualties have been reported.The official said they received a call about the fire at 10:10 am."We immediately dispatched nine fire tenders...

Jaipur, March 5. Panic spread late Wednesday night after a tanker carrying chemicals overturned and caught fire on the Nagaur-Ladnun stretch of National Highway 458 in Rajasthan. The fire was so intense that flames and thick smoke were visible from almost two kilometers away.Authorities...

New Delhi, March 5 A massive fire broke out in a cluster of slums in Delhi's Rithala area early Thursday morning, destroying over 50 huts, an official said.The Delhi Fire Services (DFS) launched an operation and about 16 fire engines were deployed to control the rapidly spreading flames in the...

New Delhi, March 5 Two charred bodies were recovered from the fourth floor of a building after a fire broke out in central Delhi's Paharganj area, a Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official said on Thursday.A call regarding the blaze was received at 4:38 pm on Wednesday. The fire had broken out in a...

Jamshedpur, March 4 The partially-burnt body of a woman and the remains of an elderly woman with her throat slit were recovered from two locations in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on Wednesday, police said.The charred body of the woman, estimated to be around 22 years old, was...

Amaravati, March 4 – Five members of a family were killed when a car they were travelling in crashed into a truck in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district on Wednesday, police said.The accident occurred on the Bengaluru-Chennai national highway near Dundapalli cross in Gangavaram mandal...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kushinagar (UP), March 3 A man has been arrested for allegedly setting fire to two vehicles belonging to an Uttar Pradesh government official after he was apparently enraged over his girlfriend's employment as a cook at the official's residence here, police said on Tuesday.The accused...

New Delhi, March 3 At least seven people, including two children and three women, were injured after a small LPG cylinder exploded in a residential building in northern Delhi's Swaroop Nagar on Tuesday, an official said.The incident occurred in the morning at a house in Swaroop Nagar. Police...

New Delhi, March 2 A fire broke out in a warehouse in Delhi's Tikri area on Monday morning, prompting the Delhi Fire Service to dispatch eight fire engines, an official said.No casualties have been reported so far.The fire was reported at 7:49 am near the Netaji Subash Vihar area in Tikri...

Dubai, March 1 At least one person was killed and seven were injured after the United Arab Emirates intercepted several Iranian missiles on Saturday.Several waves of Iranian attacks targeting the airport and several other sites across the UAE kept people awake on Saturday night.One person...

Dubai, March 1 Several waves of Iranian attacks targeting the airport and several other sites across the UAE kept people awake on Saturday night.The airport in Dubai and the iconic Burj Al Arab were among the places hit, according to what UAE officials described as drone attacks.A statement...

In Vetlapalem (Andhra Pradesh), on February 28, Minister Kandula Durgesh stated that as many as 21 people were killed and 8 others were critically injured in the cracker unit explosion in Kakinada district on Saturday.Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is expected to visit the site, he said...

Surat, February 28 A fire broke out at a textile market complex in Surat district, Gujarat, on Saturday, causing damage and destroying goods and materials in six shops on the premises, officials said.There were no casualties in the fire that erupted around 10 am at the Millennium-1 Textile...

Thane, February 28 A fire broke out at a dyeing unit in an industrial area in Thane district, Maharashtra, and there were no casualties in the incident, civic officials said on Saturday.The fire erupted after midnight on the premises in the Khoka compound near Kalyan Naka in Bhiwandi town...