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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...

New Delhi, March 16 Vice President C P Radhakrishnan expressed his sorrow on Monday at the death of 10 patients in a fire at a hospital in Cuttack, Odisha.In a social media post, the vice president said he was deeply saddened by the tragic fire incident."My heartfelt condolences to the...

Bhubaneswar, March 16 Ten people were killed after a major fire broke out in an ICU at the Odisha government-run SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack in the early hours of Monday, officials said.Around 11 hospital staff members suffered burn injuries while evacuating patients to safety...

New Delhi, March 15 A 65-year-old woman was found dead after a fire broke out in the bathroom on the roof of a house in the Badarpur area of southeast Delhi. Police suspect that the fire may have been caused when she lit a match to smoke a bidi. An officer said this on Sunday.The incident took...

New Delhi, March 15 A major fire broke out at Nature Bazaar in south Delhi's Andheria Mor area on Sunday morning, destroying around 50 shops and triggering a massive firefighting operation, an official of the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said.According to the DFS, a call regarding the blaze was...

New Delhi, March 15 A major fire broke out at Nature Bazaar in south Delhi's Andheria Mor area on Sunday morning, causing extensive damage to around 50 shops and triggering a massive firefighting operation, an official of the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said.According to the DFS, a call...

New Delhi, March 15 A major fire broke out at Nature Bazaar in south Delhi's Andheria Mor area on Sunday morning, completely destroying around 50 shops and prompting a massive firefighting operation, an official of the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said.According to the DFS, a call regarding the...

Ahmedabad, March 13 A passenger was killed and six others were injured after a private luxury sleeper bus caught fire in the Banaskantha district of Gujarat in the early hours of Friday, police said.Some of the injured are reportedly in critical condition.The bus was traveling from Nachna in...

Bhubaneswar, March 12 A fire broke out at a railway workshop in Bhubaneswar on Thursday evening, officials said.The blaze erupted in the scrap deposit area of the coaching depot at the Mancheswar railway workshop around 8:30 pm, they said.The fire was promptly controlled using the internal...

WRAPMarch 13, New Delhi – Six people were killed after a man set himself on fire on a bus in Kerzers, about 20 kilometers west of Bern, officials said.Raphael Bourquin, the public prosecutor of the Fribourg canton, said the 65-year-old Swiss man boarded the bus with two bags before standing...

Alappuzha (Kerala), March 12 Two houseboats were completely destroyed after an LPG cylinder exploded and caused a fire here on Thursday, officials said.The houseboats – Anahitha and Catherine – were docked at Palathuruthy, and one of them had tourists onboard when the explosion occurred around...

The government has refuted claims circulating on social media about a major fire at a joint India-Israel defense facility in Delhi, which resulted in the deaths of several workers from both countries. The Fact Check Unit of the Ministry of External Affairs has debunked these posts and urged...

Bhuj, March 12 – A fire broke out at a plastic scrap yard near the Chopadva village in the Bhachau taluka of Gujarat's Kutch district on Thursday, triggering a large-scale firefighting operation and causing panic in the surrounding area, officials said.Thick plumes of smoke were seen rising...

Noida, March 12 A fire broke out at an electric meter manufacturing factory in Sector 4 here on Thursday morning, leaving 26 people injured, police said.The injured were among nearly 240 workers who were trapped inside the factory, Capital Power System Limited, in the Phase 1 police station...

New Delhi, March 12 A fire broke out in a cluster of slums and waste material warehouses near the fish market in Matiala village here, a Delhi Fire Service officer said on Thursday.There were no immediate reports of casualties or injuries in the incident, he said.A call regarding the blaze...

New Delhi, March 11 A fire broke out at a warehouse in southwest Delhi's Najafgarh on Wednesday evening, prompting authorities to dispatch eight fire engines to the scene, a Delhi Fire Services official said.The fire was reported at 5:49 pm from the warehouse located near a government...

Amaravati, March 11 A fire broke out at a construction company camp here on Wednesday, damaging High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) pipes, a police official said.The fire is believed to have started from dry grass and spread to the pipes stored at the site, the official said."A fire broke out...

Baripada (Odisha), March 11 Officers from the Odisha forest department arrested a man on Wednesday for allegedly setting fire inside the Similipal Wildlife Sanctuary in the Mayurbhanj district, officials said.While patrolling the Nedam forest on Tuesday evening, staff from the Pithabata North...

Surat, March 11 A fire broke out at a chemical manufacturing company in Surat on Wednesday afternoon and quickly spread to two nearby industrial units, fire officials said.No casualties were reported in the blaze, which started around 1 pm at the company located in an industrial area of the...

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...