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Officials said all the injured are from the same family who were inside the flat when the fire broke out. Eight people, including a senior citizen and three minors, sustained injuries in a fire incident that was reported in a residential building at Kandivali in the western suburbs of Mumbai Sunday. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) disaster management cell, the blaze erupted around 7.45 am and was extinguished within 30 minutes. Civic authorities said all eight victi
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out searches at 15 places in Mumbai and Kochi in connection with the Mithi River desilting scam that caused a wrongful loss of more than Rs 65 crore to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), official sources said. The massive crackdown is underway at the premises across Mumbai and Kochi linked to the accused and suspects as part of an ongoing probe into alleged financial irregularities. According to the sources, the searches are being carried out under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at locat ...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 >
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 >
Mumbai Monorail train stuck between two stations due to power failure (Image: Videograb/X) As continuous rains lash Mumbai leading to flooding, a monorail train got stuck on an elevated track in Mumbai's Vashi Gaon area on Tuesday due to a power supply issue. With several passengers stranded onboard, rescue operations started immediately. The fire brigade reached the spot in a bid to evacuate the passengers using crane. The Maha Mumbai Metro Operation Corporation said the monorail train had ex ...Read More >
Mumbai Monorail Train: The incident of the breakdown was reported at 7.15 am, officials said. Mumbai (Maharashtra): Monorail services were resumed after a nearly two-hour-long halt that occured on Monday morning due to technical glitches in Mumbai's Wadala area. Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) said all passengers onboard were safely evacuated from the monorail. "17 passengers were evacuated after a technical glitch happened in the monorail at Wadala. Passengers were e ...Read More >
Mumbai: A gas cylinder exploded in an private under construction building in Ghatkopar East on Tuesday night, severely injuring four workers, of which two are in critical condition. The injured are taken to Rajawadi hospital. The incident was reported at 9.11 pm. About The Incident As per the BMC disaster management report, the gas cylinder exploded in the temporary shades built for the workers of Neeldhara, a ground plus seven storey under construction building located on 60 feet road, near Vidyaniketan Collage, Opp Jain Mandir in Ghatkopar East. The officials from Mumbai Fire Brigade, N w ...Read More >
Mumbai: Two more victims of the Kandivali gas-leak fire succumbed to their injuries on Tuesday at the National Burns Centre (NBC), raising the death toll of the incident to 6, leaving only one surviving patient. Officials from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) confirmed that Janaki Gupta, 39, with 70% burns, and Durga Gupta, 30, with 85-90% burns, were declared dead on Tuesday afternoon. "Both the victims were undergoing treatment in Airoli and could not survive the extent of their injuries," said a BMC official, requesting anonymity. The fire had broken out on September 24 at Shi ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has started deactivating the Aadhaar card of the dead to prevent their misuse. UIDAI has deactivated more than 1.17 crore 12-digit Aadhaar numbers so far. This information was given in an official statement issued on Wednesday, July 16. Under this initiative, UIDAI has started a new service on My Aadhaar portal for registered deaths in 24 states and union territories, so that people can report the death of their family members. The statement said, "To maintain continuous accuracy of the Aadhaar database, UIDAI has taken steps to ...Read More >
Jaipur, Jul 19 (PTI) A gang, allegedly involved in the adulteration of coal imported from the US, was busted by the Rajasthan Police, leading to the arrest of an individual, a senior official said on Saturday. The gang was adulterating high-quality coal (petcoke) imported from the US, cheating cement and steel factories out of crores of rupees through this illegal operation, Additional Director General of Police (Crime) Dinesh MN said. A team from the Crime Investigation Branch had been gathering intelligence about the theft of petcoke for some time. They were told by informants about several ...Read More >
BMC's overall fixed deposit has come down from Rs 91,690 crore in 2021-22 to Rs 79,498 crore in 2024-25. For the first time, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to hold a housing lottery to sell 426 flats in Mumbai. The move aimed at generating additional revenue comes months ahead of the civic elections, which is expected to be held early next year. BMC is expected to raise revenue of Rs 305 crore through the sale of these flats. "We (BMC) have taken up several infrastructure p ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) A technical glitch caused a temporary suspension of the Mumbai Monorail service early Monday morning in the Wadala area, leaving several passengers stranded mid-journey, who were evacuated safely. The incident occurred between the Antophill Bus Depot and GTBN Monorail Station, around 07.16 a.m., according to an official update from the BMC. The affected monorail was carrying passengers at the time. Out of these, 17 passengers were stranded on the halted coach but were safely evacuated by 7.45 a.m. Authorities confirmed that no injuries were reported during ...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 >
Mumbai: Eight members of a family, including three children aged three to seven years, were rescued on Sunday morning after a fire broke out in their flat in a high-rise building in Kandivali West. The fire was likely caused by a short circuit and doused within 20 minutes while three family members had to be admitted to the hospital after suffering suffocation due to smoke inhalation, officials said. The blaze, reported around 7.45am, broke out in the living room of a three-bedroom flat on the second floor of Agarwal Residency, a 16-storey building on Shankar Lane. The Kotharis, who lived in ...Read More >
Mumbai: A fire broke out in an industrial unit at Seepz Gate no. 2 in Andheri East on Wednesday morning. The officials of the Mumbai Fire brigade have extinguished the fire within half an hour. No injuries were reported in the incident, confirmed the fire officials. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) Disaster Management Cell, the incident was reported at around 10 am in Vijay Nagar, near Sun City Hotel, within the MIDC area. The fire was confined to an industrial unit. Firefighters from the Mumbai Fire Brigade rushed to the spot and immediately brought the blaze under ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 15 (ANI): Monorail services were resumed after a nearly two-hour-long halt that occured on Monday morning due to technical glitches in Mumbai's Wadala area. Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) said all passengers onboard were safely evacuated from the monorail. Also Read | Kolkata Fatafat Result Today, September 15, 2025: Kolkata FF Live Winning Numbers Released, Know When and Where To Check Result Chart of Satta Matka-Type Lottery Game. "17 passengers were evacuated after a technical glitch happened in the monorail at Wadala. Pas ...Read More >
MUMBAI: From Thursday onwards, the BMC will start selling 426 inclusive homes, meant for those who annually earn ₹9 lakh or less, who fall under the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Lower Income Groups (LIG). The homes, located in Kandivali, Bhandup, Jogeshwari, Goregaon, Byculla, Kanjurmarg, and other areas, have an area of 322 sq ft to 645 sq ft and will be priced from around ₹60 lakh to ₹1 crore. The BMC hopes to earn around ₹300 crore from these homes, while experts argue that, despite the "inclusive" moniker, the homes are out of the realm of affordability for most. HT was the firs ...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 (Maharashtra) [India], September 15 (ANI): Monorail services were resumed after a nearly two-hour-long halt that occured on Monday morning due to technical glitches in Mumbai's Wadala area. Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) said all passengers onboard were safely evacuated from the monorail. "17 passengers were evacuated after a technical glitch happened in the monorail at Wadala. Passengers were evacuated at 7:45 am," MMRDA PRO said in a statement. The incident of the breakdown was reported at 7.15 am, officials said. According to fire department officials, t ...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 >
Mumbai: A total of 15 people residing in a ground plus two-storey chawl in Bharat Nagar slum, Bandra East were injured after the top floor structure collapsed on Friday early morning. The injured include eight males, including a minor and seven females. Two victims suffered severe burn injuries and are in critical condition. The structure collapsed following cylinder blast, which resulted after a flash fire due to gas leakage. As per the preliminary information, the top two floor were temporary structures and now strong constructions build with cement concrete. The local BMC ward office and p ...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 >
Mumbai: A fire broke out on Wednesday night in a 25-storey high-rise building on Aarey Road in Goregaon East. Firefighting operations are currently underway, and authorities are working to contain the blaze. Fortunately, no injuries have been reported so far, and the cause of the fire is under investigation. According to the BMC Disaster Management Cell, the fire originated on the 9th and 10th floors of Emerald No. 1, Royal Palms Estate, Aarey Road, Unit No. 30 in Goregaon East. The Mumbai Fire Brigade declare it a Level-I (minor) fire at approximately 8:09 pm. Firefighting teams were immedia ...Read More >
Mumbai: A 20-year-old is feared to have drowned due to heavy currents at Silver Beach, Juhu, while a lifeguard on the beach managed to rescue his 22-year-old friend on Friday morning. Meanwhile, the Mumbai fire brigade carried out a search for the missing person, Vighnesh Devendram, until about 1.46pm and stopped the search due to high tide.Fire brigade personnel said Rajkumar Subba, 22, along with his friend Vighnesh Devendram, 20, ventured into the sea about 200 metres away from the shore, near ...Read More >
Bengaluru: At first, there were no visible flames inside the Mahabodhi Burns Centre at Victoria Hospital. But the lights went out, and slowly, the smoke began to blanket the corridors. It was this choking haze -- not the fire itself -- that triggered fear and forced an urgent evacuation in the early hours of Tuesday."The main concern wasn't just the fire, but the smoke. Burns patients are extremely vulnerable to respiratory distress, so evacuation had to be immediate," Dr Ramesh Krishna, dean and director of BMCRI, which oversees Victoria hospital, said. There were more than 100 people inside ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 17: Social media major Meta on Thursday apologised for inaccurate Kannada translation and claimed to have fixed the issue, after Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah raised concerns over faulty auto-translation of Kannada content on its platforms. Raising concerns over the faulty auto-translation of Kannada content on Meta platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, Siddaramaiah said that it was leading to the distortion of facts and misleading users. "We fixed an issue that briefly caused this inaccurate Kannada translation. We apologize that this happened," a Meta spokesperso ...Read More >
Mumbai, August 19: The commuters who were stuck inside the Mumbai Monorail near Mysore Colony station between Chembur and Bhakti Park on Tuesday, due to a power supply issue, are now being rescued by the Mumbai fire brigade. Moreover, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officer said that around 200 passengers are being rescued. According to BMC, the monorail service between Chembur and Bhakti Park was halted due to a technical glitch around 6:15 p.m. Passengers on the monorail contacted the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's helpline number 1916 for immediate assistance during this e ...Read More >
The incident, which occurred on LBS Marg around 6:30 am today, left three people seriously injured An accident occurred in Mumbai's Ghatkopar when a Kia Seltos broke through a barricade, crossed the footpath, and collided with the wall of a shop. The incident, which occurred on LBS Marg around 6:30 am today, left three people seriously injured. The video showed the vehicle in a damaged condition, with the surrounding area, including barricades, also damaged. The car was seen resting on the sta ...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 (Maharashtra) [India], October 23 (ANI): A massive fire broke out at the JMS Business Centre in the Jogeshwari West area of Mumbai on Thursday, officials said. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB), the incident has been declared a Level-II call. Also Read | Kerala Sabarimala Temple Gold Theft Case: Ex-Official Murari Babu Detained by SIT. Fire tenders have been rushed to the spot, and firefighting operations are underway. As per initial reports, several people are stranded on the top floor of the building. Rescue operations are curren ...Read More >