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Mumbai: Several people are feared stranded after a fire broke out at JNS Business Centre near Gandhi School in Mumbai's Jogeshwari on Thursday morning, officials said. No report of any injury to anyone has been received yet, and a rescue operation has been launched, they added. According to a civic official, about 10-15 people are likely to be stranded in another wing of the building. "They are safe. The rescue operation is underway," he added. A Mumbai Fire Brigade official said at least 12 fire tenders are at the spot engaged in dousing the blaze, and various agencies have been mobilised at the spot, he said.
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 >
A Level-III fire broke out on Thursday morning (October 23, 2025) at the JNS Business Center, a ground-plus-13-storey glass façade commercial building located on S.V. Road near Gandhi School in Behrampada, Jogeshwari (West), Mumbai. The incident was first reported at around 10:51 a.m. and was initially classified as a Level-II fire. According to officials from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB), the incident was first reported at 10:51 a.m., and within minu ...Read More >
Mumbai: On the morning of October 26, a fire broke at Kandivali West's Agarwal Residency, where eight people were rescued. The fire broke out on the second floor of the sixteen-storey residential building in the Shankar Lane area of Kandivali West. As the information about the fire was received, the firefighters reached the spot quickly and doused the fire within 20 minutes times. Eight residents were rescued from the incident of which two were men, three women, and three children, including a 3 ...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 >
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 >
Mumbai(Maharashtra) [India], June 21 : A fire broke out at a college in Mumbai's Kandivali area on Wednesday morning. Three fire tenders are at the spot and there is no report of any causality yet, according to Mumbai's Fire Brigade authorities. The fire incident reportedly happened at Kandivali's KES College. There is no information yet as to the number of people inside the building at the time of the fire breaking out and what was the cause of the fire. Earlier, a massive fire broke out at a furniture godown near Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district headquarters on Tuesday night, officials ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Delhi government will soon begin clearing pending electric vehicle (EV) subsidy dues amounting to about ₹140 crore, officials said on Monday as per PTI. Transport Minister Pankaj Singh confirmed that the department will verify all subsidy applications to resolve the backlog, which has piled up over the past two years. "The process of identifying eligible beneficiaries has already started," an official said. A dedicated portal for clearing dues is also being prepared. The development follows a September 3 Delhi High Court directive asking the government to take immediate steps ...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 >
MUMBAI: Shivani Gandhi, the owner of Shivani Catering Services, who was among the seven inside her workplace at Kandivali East when it caught fire due to a gas leak last week, succumbed to her injuries on Monday. Having sustained 90% burns, Gandhi, 51, who was swinging between life and death for over a week at the National Burns Centre (NBC) in Airoli, is the fifth casualty. Gandhi had been running her catering services for more than 12 years. Her business was doing well enough that she foresaw ...Read More >
According to residents and eyewitnesses, the cloud kitchen had seven employees -- six women who were ancillary workers and a man who was the head cook. A fire broke out at a cloud kitchen in the densely populated Akurli area at Mumbai's Kandivali (east) on Wednesday morning, grievously injuring seven people. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) disaster management cell, the fire broke out around 9.05am at a shop located on the ground floor of a two-storey structure. Acco ...Read More >
Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) [India], October 27 (ANI): A massive fire broke out in a scrap warehouse in Pawansur Colony under the Bhaodapur police station area of Gwalior. The situation was controlled by the fire department, and there were no casualties. Additional Superintendent of Police, Anu Beniwal, says, "We had received information about a fire breaking out in a warehouse. The fire has been brought under control... The police force and the SDRF team are present at the incident site. More than 5 fire tenders are at the spot... There is no report of any casualties..." Also Read | Delhi Shoc ...Read More >
BMC officials said the blaze was controlled before it spread across the colony with the fire extinguished by 4.35 am. A teenager died while three others were injured after a fire broke out at a chawl in south Mumbai in the early hours of Monday. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the fire was reported around 4.15 am in a chawl at Macchimaar Nagar along the Captain Prakash Pethe Marg. The fire, locals said, broke out much earlier inside a one-plus-one storey chawl structu ...Read More >
Mumbai, Oct 23 (PTI) As many as 17 persons suffered from suffocation after a fire broke out at a 13-storey commercial building in Mumbai's Jogeshwari suburb on Thursday morning, officials said. Nine of those who complained of suffocation were being treated at the nearby civic-run HBT Hospital, a civic official said, adding that eight others opted to be discharged against medical advice. Thick black smoke billowed across the glass facade as the fire started at JNS Business Center near Gandhi School around 10.50 am, he said. The blaze has been covered from all sides and dousing operations wer ...Read More >
A massive fire broke out in two adjoining buildings at Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar in north-west Delhi during the early hours of Tuesday, prompting a large-scale response from the Delhi Fire Services (DFS). Officials said over 40 fire tenders were deployed to control the blaze. According to DFS officials, a distress call was received at around 1:25 am, reporting a fire that had engulfed two adjacent godowns spread across nearly 1,000 square metres. Firefighters quickly mobilised to the locatio ...Read More >
A fire broke out in a commercial high-rise in Mumbai's Jogeshwari on Thursday morning, with no injuries reported. While 10-15 individuals are safely stranded in another section of the JNS Business Center, rescue operations are in progress. Firefighters are actively working to control the blaze with multiple engines and equipment. A fire erupted in a commercial high-rise in Mumbai's western suburb of Jogeshwari on Thursday morning, officials said. There has been no report of any injury to anyone ...Read More >
In a meticulously planned murder, a woman, her ex-boyfriend, and his friend allegedly killed her live-in partner, a UPSC aspirant, and set his body ablaze to conceal the crime. The trio attempted to stage the scene as a domestic accident, but CCTV footage and a subsequent investigation led to their arrests. In one of Delhi's most macabre crimes this year, police have arrested a 21-year-old woman, her ex-boyfriend, and his friend for allegedly killing her live-in partner -- a UPSC aspirant -- and ...Read More >
Mumbai: A fire broke out on Monday near a skywalk adjacent to the railway tracks at Thane railway station, sparking panic among commuters in the vicinity. Thick smoke and flames were seen dangerously close to passing trains, prompting immediate attention from the fire brigade and emergency services. Video Of Blaze Surfaces On The Internet Videos of the incident quickly went viral, showing black smoke billowing from the spot while trains continued to move along the tracks. The fire, which caused a brief scare, was swiftly brought under control, according to the Regional Disaster Management Ce ...Read More >
Based on eyewitness accounts, Mumbai Fire Brigade officials suspect that a cylinder blast could have triggered the collapse. At least seven people were injured and several others are feared trapped under the debris after a portion of a ground-plus-three-storey structure in Mumbai's Bandra (East) collapsed early on Friday. According to the police, the chawl collapsed around 6 am in the Bharat Nagar area. Officials from the disaster cell said that rescue operations are currently underway. "Based ...Read More >
Thane, Aug 14 (PTI) A fire broke out at a cafe located in a multi-storey residential building in Maharashtra's Thane city early Thursday morning, following which 35 persons were evacuated from the structure, officials said. No casualty has been reported as of now, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said. The blaze erupted in the Parsik Cafe located on the ground floor of the six-storey building at Kharegaon in Kalwa (West), he said. The disaster management cell received information about the incident at 4.58 am from the owner of the cafe, a 1,000 sq ft ...Read More >
VISAKHAPATNAM: The depression over northwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal and north Andhra Pradesh - south Odisha coasts moved north-north-westwards and crossed South Odisha coast close to Gopalpur during early morning of Tuesday and lay cantered over south coastal Odisha. Weatherman said it was likely to move north-westwards across south Odisha and south Chhattisgarh and weaken into a well-marked low-pressure area during next few hours. Under its influence, thunderstorms accompanied by lightning, are likely over north and south coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam and Rayalaseema. Stro ...Read More >
MUMBAI: A day after seven people sustained severe burns in a fire that broke out in a small catering unit at Akurli in Kandivali east, the Mumbai Fire Brigade is set to inspect another unit of the same catering service, Shivani Catering Services, in Ashok Nagar, also in Kandivali. The move follows an LPG cylinder leak that triggered an explosion at the Ram Kisan Mestri Chawl, where the all-women catering service operated. "We don't give a fire NOC to operate commercially in chawls, so we have asked for documents. After investigating the matter, we will take action. The shop in Akurli has been ...Read More >
Kolkata: A day after DGCA ordered checks on fuel control switches of Boeing aircraft based on a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) NM-18-33 issued by US regulator Federal Aviation Authority in Dec 17, 2018, an Airworthiness Directive (AD) issued by FAA on Sept 19, 2015, on fuel shutoff valves has come to light.This AD, which required mandatory compliance, was flagged again a month later by UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which issued a safety notice requiring airlines to check fuel shutoff valves on Boeing aircraft. It mentioned that while fuel shutoff valves on aircraft, inc ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 8 (PTI) A fire broke out in a 20-storey residential building in the Goregaon (East) area of Mumbai on Wednesday evening, officials said, adding that nobody was injured. The blaze was confined to part of the eighth floor of Emerald No. 1, Royal Palms Estate, on Aarey Road, officials stated. Five people were rescued safely, and over 20 others were moved to a refuge area after the blaze erupted, according to officials. The incident was reported at around 7:43 PM, and at least four fire engines of the Mumbai Fire Brigade, along with other vehicles, rushed to the spot, where firefigh ...Read More >