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Delhi Fire: While the festival of Dhanteras is being celebrated with great pomp and show across the country on October 18, 2025, a fire broke out suddenly in Delhi's Brahmaputra Apartments on Friday, causing panic among the people. Six fire brigade vehicles have arrived at the scene to control the fire, and rescue operations are underway. The apartment is located on Dr. Bishambar Das Marg and also houses the residences of all Rajya Sabha MPs. The fire caused panic. According to eyewitnesses, panic immediately gripped the apartment complex upon the fire's outbreak. Many residents rushed out, while police and firefighters began evacuating people to safety. Videos from the scene show smoke rising from the building and people gathered outside the ground floor. The fire department stated that the fire has now been brought under control and rescue operations are currently underway. No one was trapped in the building, and no injuries have been reported. The cause of the fire remains unknown at the time of writing. ADO Bhupendra of the Delhi Fire Service reported that a fire was reported at the Brahmaputra Apartments near Pandit Pant Marg at around 1:22 p.m. He said, "Since it's a high-rise building, we immediately dispatched 14 fire engines, including a TTL, to the scene." According to ADO Bhupendra, the fire caused the most damage to the building's stilt floor. He added, "The fire has been brought under control, but firefighters are still working to restore normalcy."
New Delhi (July 3, 2025): A fire broke out following a blast in an electrical transformer near the Trauma Centre of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi on Thursday afternoon, officials said. No injuries were reported. According to Delhi Fire Services (DFS), the call was received at 3:34 p.m. and eight fire tenders were sent to the location. The fire was brought under control by 3:55 p.m. "We received a call regarding a fire at the AIIMS Trauma Centre at 3:34 pm. We rushed eight fire tenders to the spot. The fire that was in a transformer was doused. No one received a ...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 >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 17 (ANI): A comprehensive fire mock drill was conducted at the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate on Thursday in collaboration with the Telangana State Fire Department, aimed at enhancing emergency response systems and inter-departmental coordination during fire-related disasters. The drill featured a live demonstration by Madhapur Station Fire Officer Anjaneyulu Dodla, who briefed attendees on various fire safety tools, types of fire emergencies, and appropriate response methods. He also explained how to act during emergencies, the importance of remaining ca ...Read More >
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A massive fire broke out in a private factory in the Bairagarh around 8 pm on Monday night, causing panic in the area. The fire broke out in a factory named Sign Vishwas Industries located in village Bhainsakhedi, where disposable boxes are made from aluminium. No casualty was reported in the incident Bairagarh ACP Aditya Singh said that this factory is located behind the Campion School. As soon as the information about the fire was received, the fire department was alerted and four fire tenders were sent to the spot. Of these, three vehicles were continuously engage ...Read More >
Hyderabad: A devastating explosion at a chemical manufacturing unit in Pashamylaram industrial area in Sangareddy district, claimed 15 lives and left 34 workers injured. The tragic incident occurred on Monday at Sigachi Industries Pvt Ltd which manufactures microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) powder used in pharmaceutical, food and other industries. Eyewitnesses said there was a loud explosion, shaking nearby areas and sending thick black smoke into the sky. The factory was soon engulfed in flames, triggering panic among employees and nearby residents. The incident occurred around 9 am on Monday ...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 >
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): After prominent schools in the national capital received bomb threats, personnel from the Delhi Police and Fire Department were immediately deployed to the spots. According to officials, fire tenders and police teams were dispatched to the premises of St. Thomas School and Vasant Valley School after they received bomb threats via email. The Fire Department stated that nothing suspicious has been found so far, and the investigation is ongoing. Earlier, St. Stephen College at Delhi University also received a bomb threat. The email claimed that a bomb had been ...Read More >
New Delhi: A man died after a fire broke out at a commercial building on Padam Singh Road in the Karol Bagh area in the Central District of Delhi, police said on Saturday. According to Delhi Police, Kumar Dhirender Pratap Singh (25) was found "trapped" in the lift. He was declared dead on arrival at a hospital. The fire broke out at Vishal Mega Mart on Friday evening. According to the Delhi Fire Service, 15 fire tenders reached the spot to douse the blaze. After hours of effort, firefighters controlled the fire at the four-storey building. According to the Deputy Chief Fire Officer. MK Chatt ...Read More >
New Delhi: A man died after a three-storey shop building collapsed near Pul Mithai in North Delhi's Lohia Chowk area early on Friday, officials said. The shops were part of the Azad Market area. Manoj Sharma,46, an employee at one of the shops housed in the building, was trapped under the rubble of the collapsed structure. He was pulled out of the debris and taken to the Hindu Rao Hospital, where he was later declared dead, the official added. He said Sharma had been an employee of the shop for nearly three decades. Officials said that a truck parked in front of the building was also severel ...Read More >
Delhi schools faced repeated bomb threats, causing panic. Delhi Police are investigating, finding the emails hard to trace due to encryption. Senders used VPNs and the dark web for anonymity. Directorate of Education issued safety guidelines. Schools increased security measures. Police are exploring all possible angles, including terror links. Parents expressed fear and anxiety over the disruptions. A fresh wave of bomb threats targeting schools and colleges has kept Delhi Police on its toes as ...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: More than 20 schools in Delhi have received bomb threats via emails, officials said on Friday. According to the police, the Richmond Global School in Delhi's Paschim Vihar area has reported getting a bomb threat. The fire department and Delhi police rushed to the spot after receiving information about the bomb threats, the Department of Delhi Fire Services said. Further investigation is underway. This comes days after nearly ten schools and one college in the national capital received bomb threats via email over the last three days, prompting police action and temporary closures. ...Read More >
New Delhi: Six people, including a three-year-old child, were injured in five separate fire incidents reported across the city on Thursday.According to Delhi Fire Services (DFS), a fire was reported on Pankha Road in west Delhi's Janakpuri around 5.30am, in which two buses and a car were gutted. Two fire tenders were sent to the site. No casualties were reported. At 9.35am, a fire broke out in a house in southeast Delhi's New Friends Colony. According to police, a resident called workers to clean a sofa set in her home when a fire broke out. "It appears the thinner caught fire during the clean ...Read More >
Mumbai: Uddhav and Raj Thackeray will hold a joint protest march of their parties in the city on July 5 against what they allege is imposition of Hindi in the state's schools from Class 1 through the new three-language policy. This will be the first time they will come together on a political platform after Raj Thackeray's decision to quit Shiv Sena to form MNS nearly two decades ago.There has been speculation of a reunion of the estranged cousins for the coming civic polls, and the protest march is being seen as the first step in that direction, reports Chaitanya Marpakwar.Uddhav and Raj had ...Read More >
Pune, July 8 (PTI) A four-year-old girl who slipped out of a third-floor window grille and was left dangling precariously was rescued in the nick of time on Tuesday by her neighbour, a fire brigade personnel. A video of the heart-stopping incident which took place at around 9 am in Katraj area of the city went viral on social media. Bhavika Chandane, the girl, was alone in the flat at the time as her mother had locked her in and left to drop her elder sister at school, fire brigade officials said. While standing on the window grille, she slipped out but managed to grab the window sill. Yog ...Read More >
New Delhi: The death sentence of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who was sentenced to death in Yemen, has been postponed for the time being. She was to be executed by shooting today, July 16. According to media reports, activist groups and influential religious leaders intervened in the matter, after which the death sentence of Nimisha Priya was postponed. Earlier, many efforts were also made at the diplomatic level to save Nimisha from the death penalty. There is also news that the victim's family has not yet agreed to clemency or blood money. As a last-ditch effort to save her, Kanthapuram A. ...Read More >
Patna, Aug 1 (PTI) Healthcare services were affected at AIIMS-Patna on Friday as resident doctors went on an "indefinite strike" in protest against the alleged high-handedness of Sheohar MLA Chetan Anand. According to a press statement issued by the Resident Doctors' Association (RDA), AIIMS-Patna, on Friday, "The RDA expresses deep disappointment and anguish over the lack of action by the administration following the violent and traumatic incident that occurred on Wednesday, when MLA Chetan Anand, his wife and their armed guards breached hospital security, physically assaulted staff, and thr ...Read More >
A private school in Rohini, Delhi, received a bomb threat via email on Friday, just a day after a blast in Prashant Vihar. The school promptly alerted the police, and a team from the Delhi Fire Services, along with the bomb disposal and dog squads, conducted a thorough search of the premises. No suspicious items were found, and the threat was declared a hoax. Despite this, the police have registered the statement from the school authorities and are investigating the matter. The swift response ensured the safety of students and staff. ...Read More >
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A massive fire broke out at a paper roll manufacturing unit, Shri Ji Packaging Berol Laboratory, located in a industrial area near Ashoka Garden area of the capital city, around 7 PM on Sunday evening. Thick plumes of smoke were visible from over a kilometer away, triggering panic among nearby residents. According to Ashoka Garden Police, the administration has taken swift action to bring the blaze under control. A total of 15 to 20 police and fire brigade vehicles arrived at the scene, and efforts to extinguish the fire are ongoing. As of now, the fire has not been ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: Ravada A Chandrasekhar took charge as the new State Police Chief on Tuesday. He succeeds Shaik Darvesh Saheb, who retired on June 30. His tenure will run until July 1, 2027. A 1991-batch IPS officer currently serving as Special Director with the Intelligence Bureau, Chandrasekhar is on central deputation. He was selected over Nitin Agarwal, who topped the official list of probables. The appointment order, issued by Kerala Chief Secretary Dr A Jayathilak on behalf of the Governor, was released soon after a cabinet meeting held on Monday. Hailing from Andhra Pradesh's Godav ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 4 (ANI): Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday came down heavily on the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) over its pitch to reconsider the words 'secular and socialist' from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution while saying that it was 'all talk'. He dared and challenged RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale and top leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the centre to remove the words 'secular and socialist' from the Preamble. 'Days before, I heard that some RSS person said that we should remove Secular and Socialist words from ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 5: A massive fire that erupted at a Vishal Mega Mart outlet in Delhi's Karol Bagh area on Saturday, claimed the lives of two men, according to police sources. The incident occurred at a four-storey commercial building located on Padam Singh Road, with the blaze primarily concentrated on the second floor. The fire was first reported at approximately 6:44 P.M. on Friday, prompting a swift response from emergency services. At least 15 fire tenders were deployed to the site to control the flames and carry out rescue operations. Despite their efforts, two fatalities were confirmed d ...Read More >
Mumbai: Panic gripped residents of a 19-storey residential tower in Kanjurmarg (East) after a fire broke out on Sunday morning in the electric duct of the building, leaving several people stranded on upper floors and the terrace.Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) received the call at 11:40am and classified the blaze at N G Royal Park as a Level I fire by 12:10pm. The blaze was confined to electrical wiring and installations inside the vertical duct stretching from the first to the 19th floor, with the most intense fire activity concentrated between the 16th and 18th floors.Three fire engines, one fire ...Read More >
New Delhi: Two people, a 25-year-old civil services aspirant and a 30-year-old lab technician, were killed in the massive fire at Vishal Mega Mart in central Delhi's Karol Bagh on Friday. According to the fire service, the building lacked a valid fire certificate and a case of negligence has been registered by police.The deceased were identified as Kumar Dhirender Pratap Singh and Pawan Gautam. Singh, originally from Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh, was found dead inside the elevator, where he is believed to have suffocated after getting trapped, while Gautam, an ITI graduate from Aligarh who worke ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): A man died after a three-storey shop building collapsed near Pul Mithai in North Delhi's Lohia Chowk area early on early hours of Friday. The collapsed building, located at Tokri Walan in Pul Mithai near Bara Hindu Rao, had three shops on the ground floor and godowns on the first floor. The shops were part of the Azad Market area and dealt in bags and canvas cloth. The deceased has been identified as Manoj Sharma, also known as Pappu, aged 45. He was an employee at shop number 7A, owned by Gulshan Mahajan, and had been working there for the past 30 years. T ...Read More >
New Delhi: A firefighter was injured after a massive fire broke out at a building in North Delhi's Sadar Bazar on Saturday afternoon.According to officials, the incident was reported at 3:49 pm. A total of 27 fire tenders and over 100 firefighters rushed to the spot, located in the Main Market of Sadar Bazar.The fire reportedly started on the first floor of the building and quickly spread to three upper floors. The area, known for its dense crowds and congested lanes, posed additional challenges for firefighting efforts.The injured firefighter is identified as Yogender, who is posted at the Sa ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 10 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Tuesday raised concerns about the Rajouri Garden based Jungle Jamboree restaurant's safety record after a fire broke out on Monday spreading to the coaching centre above it. The Delhi CM visited the fire incident site of Rajouri Garden and took stock of the situation saying that the fire NOC of the restaurant had been cancelled by the Fire Department, and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had also ordered its closure. Despite this, the restaurant was still operating, prompting an investigation by the Delhi Police. Pr ...Read More >
New Delhi: A minor fire broke out in Room No. 238 of the Revenue Building at ITO on Friday morning. The Delhi Fire Service received a call at 9:57 am and promptly dispatched six fire tenders to the spot. Firefighters managed to douse the flames within 10 minutes and prevented a major mishap. "The fire is under control" , confirmed an official from the Delhi Fire Service. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. Further investigation is underway to discover the exact reason behind the incident. ...Read More >
New Delhi: A minor fire broke out at the Revenue Building in central Delhi's ITO area on Friday morning.According to Delhi Fire Services (DFS), the call was received at 9.57 am, after which a team of 36 firefighters and seven fire tenders were immediately sent. The fire was located on the second floor, in room number 238, and was brought under control swiftly."The fire started in an air conditioning unit, likely due to a short circuit, and spread to some nearby wiring. It was initially doused by staff using extinguishers, and our team handled the remaining fire and cooling operations," said a ...Read More >