Follow Us on Google News Hyderabad, May 19 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao has slammed Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for not visiting the site of Sunday’s fire accident near Charminar, which claimed 17 lives. Rama Rao, who visited the accident site on Monday and spoke to the family … Read more
Srinagar, May 19, KDC: A devastating fire broke out in the main market of Sumbal in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district during the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, reducing at least 12 shops and four residential houses to ashes, officials said. According to officials, the fire started around midnight, prompting an immediate response from fire … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Hyderabad, May 18 (IANS) Sunday’s fire accident in a building near iconic Charminar that claimed 17 lives is the worst fire disaster to hit Hyderabad in recent years. The tragedy once again brought into focus the lack of fire safety measures in multi-storey buildings and failure to ensure adherence to … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) As the death toll in the devastating fire at a six-story hotel building at Madan Mohan Burman Street in central Kolkata has reached 15, a senior official of the West Bengal government and a member of the state cabinet admitted severe lapses in fire safety management … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) Kolkata has a history of negligence-prompted major fire mishaps at important buildings in the city which took a toll on several lives, the latest being the one at a six-storeyed hotel building at Madan Mohan Burman Street in central Kolkata that broke out on Tuesday night … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Mumbai, April 26 (IANS) A woman was killed and six people, including a 10-day-old infant, were injured in a fire in an high-rise building in Mumbai’s Lokhandwala in Andheri (West), early on Saturday, said the Mumbai Fire Brigade. Abhina Kartik Sanjanvalia, 34, died on the way to Cooper Hospital. Her … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Shimla, April 20 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, said on Sunday that protecting life and property amid blaze “is not just a duty but a noble service” while he flagged off 13 fire-fighting vehicles to enhance the emergency response capabilities. Presiding over the closing ceremony of Fire … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Bhopal, April 10 (IANS) Two firemen were injured and a three-story building totally gutted in a massive fire that erupted in the wee hours of Thursday in Gwalior. The blaze was made worse by the bursting of five LPG cylinders kept in the factory. The fire began at around 2:30 … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Chennai, April 2 (IANS) Unit III of the Thoothukudi Thermal Power Station (TTPS) is expected to resume power generation on Wednesday following the fire that had forced the shutdown of three units on March 15. Each unit has a generation capacity of 210 MW. According to official sources, Units I … Read more
