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Thane, Oct 17 (PTI) A fire broke out in a factory manufacturing candles and glass items in Navi Mumbai in the early hours of Friday, an official said. Nobody was injured in the fire that started around 2.15 am in the unit in the Raable MIDC area After being alerted, the fire services of the Navi Mumbai civic body rushed six fire engines to the spot, and the blaze was brought under control around 10 am, he said. The cooling operations are underway, the official said, adding that the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. PTI COR NR
Pune, Jun 27 (PTI) Three Bangladeshi nationals were held in a joint operation of the Military Intelligence and Ahilyanagar police for illegally staying in the country, an official said on Friday. Jahangir Shaikh (34), Hanif Khalid (40) and Mushrif Shaikh (40) were working at a construction site in Pokhardi village in Ahilyanagar district, some 120 kilometres from here. "They were held on Thursday following a tip off. A probe has found they entered India without a valid visa or other requisite documents. We found forged Aadhaar cards and other bogus documents with them," the MIDC police stati ...Read More >
Kochi: Edison Babu's neighbours in Muvattupuzha knew him as the quiet engineer who had returned home during the pandemic. The 35-year-old former auto industry professional seemed to lead an unremarkable life in this sleepy Kerala suburb, occasionally visiting the local post office with packages: nothing unusual for someone running what appeared to be a small online business. What they didn't know was that their mild-mannered neighbour had built India's most sophisticated darknet drug empire, one that relied heavily on the very government postal service that was meant to serve the community. ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) St Stephen's College and St Thomas School here received bomb threats through email on Tuesday, prompting authorities to launch a thorough search operation, with officials saying nothing suspicious has been found so far. Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Raja Banthia said St Stephen's College reported that they received the bomb threat at 7:15 am. "The mail claimed that four IEDs and two RDX bombs have been planted on the premises and in the library of the college. It further claimed that those would explode by 2 pm," the police officer was quoted as saying in a st ...Read More >
Mumbai: A three-storey chawl in Mumbai's Bandra East collapsed early Friday morning, leaving at least 10 people feared trapped under the debris, civic officials confirmed. The incident occurred around 5:56 am in the Bharat Nagar area near the Namaj Committee Masjid, close to the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). The structure, identified as Chawl No. 37, was a ground-plus-three-storey residential building, PTI reported. The collapse triggered an immediate response from multiple agencies. A large-scale rescue operation is currently underway, with eight fire engines, rescue vans and ambulances deploy ...Read More >
Delhi Mall Fire Tragedy: A disturbing voice message from Kumar Dhirender Pratap, who was 25 years old and an aspirant for UPSC, has generated outrage as he passed away in a raging fire at Vishal Mega Mart, Karol Bagh. Stranded in a smoke-filled elevator, Pratap had left his last messages for his older brother at 6:51 pm, "Bhaiya ab saans phool raha. Kuch karo" (Brother, I am short of breath now. Do something). Pratap, a resident of Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, had come back to Delhi only 48 hours ago to resume his preparation for civil services. A fire, reportedly due to a short circuit on the f ...Read More >
Around 300 shops were gutted after a major fire broke out early Saturday on Kolkata's Ezra Street. Fire officials said there were no casualties as residents living in adjoining buildings had been evacuated in time. "We had evacuated all the buildings. So no casualties," Indira Mukherjee, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kolkata Central, told reporters, reported the Indian Express. Twenty fire engines have been deployed to control the blaze, which officials believe was triggered by a short circuit. ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) Two people died and four others were injured after a fire broke out at a house in east Delhi's Old Govindpura area on Tuesday evening, an official said. Police have identified the deceased as Tanveer (28) and Nusrat. A call was received at Jagatpuri police station at 8.46 pm regarding a fire incident at Band Gali, Old Govindpura, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) Prashant Gautam said. When a police team reached the spot, it found that 10 people were trapped inside a residential building that caught fire, the DCP said. With the help of police personnel and fir ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 18 (PTI) A massive fire broke out at an apartment complex, housing residences of several Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs, opposite Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Saturday afternoon, an official said. No casualties have been reported so far, a Delhi Fire Services official said. However, some residents have claimed that a few children were injured in the incident and taken to RML Hospital. A call regarding the fire at Brahmaputra Apartments on Baba Kharag Singh Marg was received at 1.22 pm, he said, adding that 14 fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the blaze was brou ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jun 28 (PTI) Police have arrested seven Bangladeshi nationals, six of them women, from different localities in Mumbai and Pune for staying in the country illegally, an official said on Saturday. Earlier this week, a team from the MIDC police apprehended Bayajid Khan (24), who had entered India through Guwahati, Assam and was living in Palghar, the official said. He said Khan, who was employed in the western suburb of Andheri, informed the police that he had facilitated accommodation and employment for six Bangladeshi women in Pune and Mumbai. Based on the information, police nabbed ...Read More >
The five passengers in the car -- two men, two women and a 3-year-old girl -- were among the dead Eight people have died and multiple others have been injured after a truck lost control and plowed into other vehicles on a busy highway in India, according to local media reports. The incident occurred on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 13, at around 5:45 p.m. local time, after a Mumbai-bound trailer truck hit at least 13 vehicles on the Bhumkar Bridge-Navale Bridge stretch of the busy Pune-Bengalur ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) A five-year-old and nine others were rescued after a major fire broke out on the first floor of a residential building in southeast Delhi's New Friends Colony area on Tuesday, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said. A call regarding the fire was received at 5.14 pm from a house in Taimoor Nagar, near a gurdwara on Mathura Road, he said. "All 10 residents trapped on the first floor -- six men, three women and a five-year-old child -- were safely rescued by the fire personnel," the officer said, adding that no injuries were reported. He further said six fire tende ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Several oil tankers in Jammu caught fire on Wednesday. Emergency services responded quickly to the scene, averting a bigger tragedy involving people.No individuals people have been reported to be harmed, according to news agency PTI. However, two tankers with relatively less quantity of oil burst into flames and were complete gutted. The cause of the fire, that started with one tanker near the RTO office at Transport Nagar and spread to 4-5 other tankers, is not known.The area, home to numerous tankers and jhuggies, is considered highly vulnerable.Officials said that fire service pe ...Read More >
Noida, Jun 27 (PTI) A massive fire broke out at a chemical factory in Noida's Sector 2 on Friday morning, a fire department official said. Thick smoke and flames coming out of the factory were visible from a distance. Gautam Buddha Nagar's Chief Fire Officer Pradeep Kumar Chaubey said information regarding the fire was received at 5:30 am. Seeing the intensity of the blaze, fire tenders Ghaziabad, Hapur and Meerut were roped in along with private firefighting teams, he said. No injury or casualty has been reported in the incident and the blaze has been doused, the CFO said. "The fire was ...Read More >
Gorakhpur, Nov 16 (PTI) A massive fire erupted at the Waterways Restaurant & Banquet near the Taramandal Buddhist Museum here on Sunday, leaving one staff member dead and causing extensive property damage, officials said. The blaze, which started around 5 am, quickly spread through the entire three-storey building, with thick smoke engulfing the area and triggering panic among locals. Chief Fire Officer Santosh Kumar said the fire control room received an alert at 5:16 am, following which four fire tenders were dispatched. "After three hours of intensive operations, the fire was brought und ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 18 (PTI) A three-storey chawl collapsed in the western suburb of Bandra here in the early hours of Friday, with at least 10 people feared trapped in the debris, civic officials said. As many as seven people have been rescued from the debris so far and admitted to the civic-run Bhabha Hospital, they said. According to preliminary information, chawl number 37 in the Bharat Nagar area of Bandra East collapsed around 5.56 am. Eight fire engines are at the spot along with teams from the Mumbai police and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's local ward machinery, an official from ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 18 (PTI) Residents of a Delhi apartment complex that saw a massive fire Saturday afternoon said despite being a high-security building complex where several MPs and their staff lived, it lacked basic fire preparedness and was poorly maintained. They claimed that a few children were injured and taken to a hospital, and several families suffered heavy losses due to the fire at Brahmaputra Apartments in Baba Kharak Singh Marg area. The fire began on the ground floor, which was a parking space but filled with furniture, polishing materials and other inflammable items, residents sa ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) "Bhaiya ab saans phool raha. Kuch karo...(Brother I am short of breath now. Do something)," that was the last message Kumar Dhirender Pratap managed to sent his elder brother -- a desperate cry for help from inside a smoke-filled elevator. Barely 48-hours after returning to Delhi to restart his UPSC preparations, the 25-year-old aspirant from Banaras found himself trapped in a lift at Vishal Mega Mart in Karol Bagh, as fire raged through the building. He had come back with hopes of a fresh start but instead, he died gasping for breath, waiting for help that came too la ...Read More >
According to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS), a call was received about a fire near KD Campus, behind the Batra Cinema building. Locals said the blaze started on the first floor and spread to the upper floors where the family was present. At the time of the incident, apart from Singh's family, one staff member was inside the building, DFS officials said. "As the fire started on the first floor, everyone rushed to the third floor. On being alerted, we rushed six fire tenders and police teams to th ...Read More >
Sangareddy (Telangana), Jun 30 (PTI) At least two persons were killed and about 14 others suffered injuries in a suspected explosion in a pharma plant in this district on Monday, police said. Several workers are feared trapped at the accident site in the Sigachi pharma company at the Pashamylaram industrial estate and efforts were on to rescue them, official sources said. The injured people were shifted to hospitals and their condition was not known immediately, as the rescue operation was still in progress. Fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the fire. Asked if it was an explo ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) A blast followed by a fire in a transformer located near the Trauma Centre of the AIIMS here was reported on Thursday afternoon, a Delhi Fire Services (DFS) official said. He added that no one was injured in the incident. "We received a call regarding a blast and a fire in an electric transformer at the AIIMS Trauma Centre at 3:34 pm. We rushed eight fire tenders to the spot. The fire was doused by 3:55 pm. No one was injured," DFS chief Atul Garg said in a statement. A fire officer told PTI that when their teams reached the spot, the staff of the AIIMS fire unit was ...Read More >
New Delhi: A heart-touching moment has come to light from Delhi, a brave firefighter rushed into the burning Brahmaputra Apartments on BD road, not just to battle the flames, but to save a pet dog trapped inside. With smoke billowing and time running out, he emerged carrying the frightened dog to safety. The dog's owner, overcome with emotion and gratitude, watched as their beloved pet was brought back from the brink. A fire broke out at Brahmaputra Apartments near Parliament in New Delhi on Saturday, October 18. Several flats of members of parliament was reportedly engulfed in the blaze. A ...Read More >
Ghaziabad: A residential building in Indirapuram with 20 flats caught fire on Wednesday night after a skyshot firework exploded in the balcony of a second-floor house and started a blaze that reached the fifth floor within minutes.Crackers were being burst on the street at Friends Avenue - part of extended Diwali celebrations that NCR has been seeing, with Supreme Court's orders restricting cracker-bursting to a two-hour evening window largely ignored, and not enforced either.Six fire tenders too ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Jun 30 (PTI) In a crackdown against autorickshaws overcharging and plying illegally, Karnataka transport department authorities on Monday registered 260 cases and seized 98 vehicles. The action came days after state Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy directed the transport commissioner to take strict action against app-based and other autorickshaws in Bengaluru that charge fares above the government-fixed rates, calling the practice a "daylight robbery". In a letter dated June 28, the minister said the permits of such autorickshaws should be cancelled and cases registered against ...Read More >
A four-storey building collapsed in Delhi's Welcome area, resulting in the tragic deaths of six people, including a two-year-old child. Eight others sustained injuries and were hospitalized. Rescue operations, involving multiple agencies like the NDRF, are underway to find anyone still trapped in the rubble. The building owner and his family were among the deceased. Six people, including a two-year-old girl, died and eight sustained injuries when a four-storey building collapsed in the Welcome a ...Read More >
According to the news agency PTI, the incident took place around 10 am on the road linking Kasheli to Thane West, according to officials. "A car was found parked on the Kasheli Bridge, and preliminary information suggests that its driver, Anurag Kesari, jumped into the creek. Teams from the disaster management cell, fire brigade, and Thane disaster response force are coordinating rescue efforts," said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the Disaster Management Cell, Thane Municipal Corporation. Rescue teams ...Read More >
The incident was reported around 2.30 am from a house in F block in the Chand Bagh area near Bhajanpura when the building was engulfed in heavy smoke after two scooters and a motorcycle parked on the ground floor caught fire, the Delhi Fire Services said. Eight other residents, including children, who were trapped on the second, third and fourth floors, also managed to save their lives when the firefighters reached the spot and rescued them. An official said that by the time the firefighters re ...Read More >
Gurugram, Apr 6 (PTI) A fire broke out in four adjacent furniture warehouses in Sector 89 here on Monday, officials said. Preliminary investigation suggested the welding spark as the cause of the fire. No casualties were reported so far, they said. "A warehouse was being constructed nearby, where work was underway to erect a tin shed. It is being said that this spark ignited the fire," police said. They said after receiving information at around 12.15 pm, seven fire tenders were rushed to the spot. A petrol and CNG pump was located right next to the warehouses where the fire broke out. Fea ...Read More >
The car had a Maharashtra number plate. Luggage was tied to the roof of the vehicle, which made officials believe that a family had come from Maharashtra to visit Agra. A shocking and heartbreaking incident has come to light from the Taj Mahal complex in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. An elderly man was found unconscious and tied inside a locked car parked near the western gate. The incident has raised serious questions about human sensitivity and responsibility. According to Aaj Tak, the man had been locked inside the car for several hours. The extreme heat and humidity had made his condition critic ...Read More >
Balasore (Odisha) Oct 15 (PTI) A fire in a four-storey supermarket in Odisha's Balasore town on Wednesday damaged the structure, officials said. However, no casualty was reported in the fire at the building along the F M College Road, they said Ten fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze, first spotted around 3 am, a fire brigade official said. "It took nearly six hours to bring the situation under control. Fire brigade personnel had difficulties reaching the building through the narrow approach road," another official said. An electric short-circuit was suspected to have ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Jan 27 (PTI) A fire broke out at an electric vehicle showroom in Rajajinagar here on Monday afternoon and 10 vehicles were gutted and 20 were partially damaged, fire officials said. The incident was reported to the fire department at 2.06 pm, after which two fire tenders were rushed to the spot, they said. According to the department, the fire occurred in the basement and ground floor of the showroom where two-wheeler electric vehicles were kept. Following the fire, 10 vehicles were burnt completely, while another 20 vehicles were partially burnt. However, since the fire was con ...Read More >