Timekeeper office at bus terminus in Tiruvannamalai gutted in fire

6 days, 18 hours ago

Plucky security guard dies in Vidyavihar building fire

Mumbai: “I’d talked to him on the phone just a few hours earlier,” said a tearful Ujwala Gangan, wife of security guard Uday Gangan, 52, who died on Monday morning. “He had asked me to keep tea ready when came back from his night shift.” Plucky security guard dies in Vidyavihar building fire Uday, a security guard at the 13-storey …

Building Security Guard Floor Uday Gokani Vidyavihar

1 week, 4 days ago

Cotton godown near Walajah gutted

The Hindu

A 56-year-old owner of a cotton godown at Ammananthangal village near Walajah town in Ranipet on Chennai - Bengaluru Highway escaped unhurt after fire broke out in the unit on Thursday, resulting in thick smoke in the area. Police said that it was around 4 am when K. Sivagopal, owner, went to his unit as part of his routine patrol …

Cotton Unit Walajah

1 week, 4 days ago

Disgruntled bus driver started fire that claimed lives of four employees of Pune firm: Cops

The Hindu

The deadly fire in a minibus owned by a private firm that claimed the lives of four employees near Pune was allegedly an act of sabotage by a disgruntled driver, police said on Thursday. "Investigation revealed that the fire was not an accident but sabotage," said deputy commissioner of police Vishal Gaikwad of Pimpri Chinchwad Police at a press conference …

Pune Bus

1 week, 4 days ago

Employee disgruntled over pay cut caused Pune minibus fire that killed 4 employees

India Today

Four people died after a minibus owned by a Pune-based private company caught fire on Wednesday. A day later, police revealed that a bus driver, disgruntled over a pay cut and wanting to take revenge, was behind the fire and staged it as an accident. However, the accused driver, identified as Janardan Hambardekar, managed to jump out of the moving …

Bus Pay Cut

Pune: 4 office-goers charred to death, 5 suffer burns as minibus catches fire

Hindustan Times

A vehicle of a private firm caught fire near Pune on Wednesday, resulting in four of the company employees travelling in the vehicle being charred to death. Charred remains of a tempo traveller that caught fire while it was ferrying some employees of a company to their office, at Hinjewadi, near Pune, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. According to a police …

Employees Pune Vehicle Pti Read Hinjewadi Some Employees

Four people charred to death after mini bus catches fire in Pune’s Hinjewadi

Hindustan Times

Four persons were charred to death while five others sustained burn injuries after a mini bus caught fire at Pune’s Hinjewadi area, police said. Some of the employees couldn’t come out from the front door while another door on the rear side didn’t open, resulting in the deaths,” said Kanhaiya Thorat, senior police inspector at Hinjewadi police station. According to …

Hinjewadi Mini Bus

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Man is set on fire in Times Square as police hunt for arsonist on the loose

Daily Mail

Police in New York City are urgently searching for an arsonist after a man was brutally set on fire in Times Square early Sunday morning. A 45-year-old man was left with severe burns on his face and arms after a suspect set him on fire early Sunday morning in Times Square Police said they believe the man was set on …

Victim Man First Responders Set Nypd Times Square Kawam

2 weeks, 4 days ago

6 staffers injured as blaze erupts at restaurant in Connaught Place in Delhi

Hindustan Times

Six people were severely injured in a fire that broke out inside a restaurant in New Delhi’s Connaught Place on Thursday morning. Fire officials said a leak in an LPG cylinder in the restaurant’s kitchen triggered the blaze. When HT visited the spot on Thursday afternoon, the restaurant was shuttered with signs reading “Closed Due to Holi Festival.” Attempts to …

Delhi Restaurant Deepak

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Elderly woman rescued as fire spreads in four houses near Tirupattur

The Hindu

A 75-year-old woman was rescued safely after fire broke out in her house at Gajalnaickanpatti near Tirupattur town on Saturday, resulting in thick smoke in the area. Police said that it was around 1 p.m when B. NoorJahan, a native of Gajalnaickanpatti village, noticed thick smoke coming from the electrical switch board in the house. They also alerted the Kandali …

House Tirupattur Tirupattur Town

3 weeks, 6 days ago

Fire destroys incense sticks manufacturing unit near Katpadi

The Hindu

A 54-year-old owner of an incense sticks making unit at Rasalapakkam village near Katpadi in Vellore escaped unhurt after fire broke out in the unit on Tuesday, resulting in thick smoke in the area. Police said that it was around 5 am when V. Mahalingam, owner, went to his unit as part of his routine patrol of the facility, noticed …

Unit Katpadi Incense Sticks

1 month, 1 week ago

15 years since Carlton Towers fire accident, the needle has moved a little, but not very far: Uday Vijayan

The Hindu

In the 15 years since he tragically lost his 22-year-old son Akhil Uday in the fire accident at Carlton Towers, Uday Vijayan, who took to activism campaigning for fire safety through the civic group Beyond Carlton, said the “needle had definitely moved a little, though not very far”. But we need to take a step ahead and make a holistic …

Safety Fire Safety Vijayan Carlton

1 month, 1 week ago

Noida: Fire breaks out at marriage tent warehouse, efforts to douse flame underway

India TV News

Noida: Fire breaks out at marriage tent warehouse, efforts to douse flame underway The visuals that emerged from the spot show the warehouse was completely gutted in the massive fire. Fire breaks out in two-storey building for labourers near a project site in Gurugram Meanwhile, an another fire incident took place in Gurugram in which a two-storey building caught flame …

Noida

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Shops gutted as fire breaks out at Jalakanya Exhibition in Vijayawada, no casualties reported

The Hindu

Several shops were gutted after a fire broke out at Kashmir Jalakanya Exhibition being organised near Sitara Centre on Wednesday. The exhibition has been organised without permission for the last seven days, said the fire services officials of the NTR district administration and Vijayawada Municipal Corporation. It took the fire services personnel one and a half hours to douse the …

Exhibition Ntr Vijayawada Vmc Jalakanya Jalakanya Exhibition

2 months ago

Fire in a warehouse in Tiruvottiyur destroys paper and cardboard products worth ₹3 crore

The Hindu

A huge fire in a warehouse in Tiruvottiyur resulted in paper and cardboard stocks worth more than ₹3 crore being destroyed on Sunday. A senior official of the City Police said a fire broke out in a warehouse belonging to Selvaprakash located in the Thulasiram locality of Tiruvottiyur on Sunday morning. Even as fire tenders rushed to the accident spot, …

Tiruvottiyur

2 months, 1 week ago

Bus catches fire in Himachal's Bilaspur, passengers safe

Deccan Chronicle

Bilaspur: The passengers, driver and conductor of an HRTC bus en route from Himachal's Shimla to Kangra had a narrow escape after the bus caught fire near Kandraur in Bilaspur on Thursday.As soon as the driver noticed smoke coming from the engine, he immediately stopped the bus and instructed all the passengers to get out, preventing a major accident, said …

Bus Bilaspur Passengers Safe

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Fire at garment store in Noida, woman dead

Deccan Chronicle

Noida: A 34-year-old woman died and her husband got severely burnt in a fire that broke out at a two-storey garment store in Noida on Tuesday, police said. At the time of the incident, the shop owner Rohit Sharma and his wife Vinita were sleeping on the first floor of the building and got severely burnt, a police spokesperson said. …

Sharma Store Garment Store Noida Woman

2 months, 3 weeks ago

10 two-wheelers gutted in fire at Ambegaon Khurd

Hindustan Times

10 two-wheelers were gutted in a fire that broke out at the parking lot of Madhurangan Apartment near Swami Narayan Temple in Ambegaon Khurd late on Friday. The incident was reported on Saturday at around 1 am, and the fire brigade received a distress call at around 1:16 am. Prabhakar Umratkar, fire officer at Sinhagad Road Fire Brigade Station said, …

3 months ago

UP Man Who Set Himself On Fire Near New Parliament Building Dies After Suffering 95% Burns

ABP News

The man who set himself on fire near the new Parliament building on Thursday died after suffering 95 per cent burns. The man in his early 30s was rushed to the hospital by security personnel deployed near Parliament and was undergoing treatment in the Intensive Care Unit of the burns department, a professor in the department of medicine at the …

Man Parliament Bagpat

3 months, 1 week ago

4 injured as fire breaks out at event management company in Delhi's Burari

India Today

Four people were injured after a fire broke out at a storage room used by an event management company in Delhi's Burari area on Sunday. Police and fire officials received a PCR call reporting the blaze at A-235 of Pradhan Enclave located in the Burari area of North East Delhi. The injured were identified as Anand Gupta, 24, Ravi Prakash …

Delhi Burari

3 months, 1 week ago

Fire breaks out at Sattava Lakes Building’s bar and restaurants in Telangana’s Rangareddy

Live Mint

A fire broke out at the Sattava Lakes Building's bar and restaurants in the Rangareddy district in Telangana early Saturday morning. The fire erupted on the fifth floor of a building at Sattva Knowledge City located in the Madhapur area here, a Telangana Fire Department official said on Saturday. Shaik Khaja Karimulla, the District Fire Officer of Rangareddy, told news …

Telangana Sattva Knowledge City

3 months, 1 week ago

Two fire incidents reported; firefighter injured while extinguishing blaze

Hindustan Times

Two separate fire incidents were reported in the city during the early hours of Wednesday, leading to panic and property damage. In the first case, a major fire occurred at a warehouse storing mandap materials in Warje, Dangtat Patil Nagar, while another blaze erupted near Katraj, involving plywood materials. On Wednesday at around 3:53 am, the fire brigade department received …

Warje Plywood Materials Reported Firefighter

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Fire breaks out at shopping mart in Lucknow; none hurt

Hindustan Times

Fire broke out in a shopping mart located in Telibagh market area, under the PGI police station area of Lucknow, creating panic among locals on Monday morning. Firemen trying to quench the flames in Lucnkow on Monday However, no one was hurt in the fire as the store was closed when the fire broke out on the second and the …

Lucknow Pgi

3 months, 4 weeks ago

‘Fire safety norms have been blatantly violated’

New Indian Express

KOCHI: It was in 2019 that a massive fire broke out at the office-cum godown of a well-known stationery dealer shop at Kalathiparampu near Ernakulam South railway station. An inspection by a special fire force squad had then found ‘serious lapses’ on the part of the owner in adhering to mandatory fire safety norms. Five years down the lane, another …

Railway Station Fire Safety Norms

4 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: 30 Students Escape Unhurt as Private College Bus Gutted in Fire

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: A private college bus belonging to India Rural Evangelical Fellowship Nursing College in Repalle was destroyed in a fire caused by a suspected short circuit at Gudavalli village in Cherukupalli mandal of Bapatla district on Saturday. Approximately 30 nursing students were travelling in the bus to attend their semester examinations at an examination hall in Guntur when the incident …

Fire

4 months ago

Nursing college bus catches fire in A.P.’s Bapatla district, students safe

The Hindu

A private nursing college bus caught fire in Bapatla district on Saturday, when the vehicle was transporting the students to the college. The bus was completely burnt in flames after the students jumped out from the vehicle, said the villagers. The bus belonging to a private nursing college of Repalle, caught fire when it reached Gudavalli village in Cherukupalli mandal …

Students Bus Bapatla District

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Delhi: Massive fire breaks out at house in Nangia Park area near Shakti Nagar | VIDEO

India TV News

A fire broke out at a house in the Nangia Park area near Shakti Nagar, Delhi on Sunday. Fire breaks out in food van in Delhi Earlier in the day, a fire broke out in a food van outside the Vishwavidyalaya metro station here on Sunday morning. "We received a call at 10.55 am that a fire had broken out …

Station Delhi Massive Vishwavidyalaya

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Two fire accidents in Attapur

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad:Firefighters in Rajendranagar division brought two fire accidents under control in Attapur on Monday. The first fire broke out in the morning at a private bus scrap godown on MM Pahadi Road causing `3 lakh-property damage. Rajendranagar fire division reached the spot and doused it with two extinguishers. Regional fire officer Harinath Reddy and director general of the Telangana State …

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Fire Breaks Out at Bhubaneswar's Unit-1 Underground Market

New Indian Express

A fire broke out at a garments shop in Unit-1 underground market in Bhubaneswar on Thursday night. The fire was quickly extinguished by firefighters using breathing apparatus sets and a tower light. However, the market was engulfed in smoke, and it took over four hours to disperse the smoke. No one was injured in the incident, but goods worth lakhs …

Business Law Crime Fire Bhubaneswar

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Fire at Tirumala DE Office, Partial Damage to Records

Deccan Chronicle

Anantapur: A fire broke out in the deputy engineer's office in Annexe Building of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams administrative complex on Saturday. The affected office houses records of TTD engineering works undertaken in temples across South India. The TTD engineering department operates with an e-office system, ensuring that all files and records related to engineering works are stored online and …

Records Office Ttd Engineering Works

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Rapid progress in probe into Madanapalle Sub-Collector’s office fire case, says Revenue Minister

The Hindu

The investigation into the fire incident at the Sub-Collector’s office at Madanapalle, in which crucial land records were gutted, is progressing rapidly, Andhra Pradesh Revenue Minister Anagani Satya Prasad has said. Addressing the media in Tirupati on August 12, Mr. Satya Prasad said that YSRCP leader and former Minister Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy and his family members were facing allegations related …

Cid Satya Prasad Madanapalle Revenue Minister Gutted Office

8 months ago

Delhi: Fire breaks out at two restaurants in INA market, 6 injured

Hindustan Times

A fire broke out at two adjacent fast-food restaurants in Delhi's INA market early Monday morning. Delhi: Fire breaks out at restaurants INA market, 6 injured The fire broke out at Kerala Restaurant, located in shop number 211 near INA Metro Station’s gate 2, at 3:18 am. Seven fire trucks were sent to the scene and took about two hours …

Delhi Restaurant Ias Ina Market

8 months, 1 week ago

Key files, furniture gutted in major fire at new Sub-Collector’s office building at Madanapalle in Andhra Pradesh

The Hindu

Important files, computers and furniture were gutted in a major fire that broke out at the newly constructed building of the Sub-Collector’s office at Madanapalle in Annamayya district at around 11.30 p.m. on July 21 According to revenue officials, a village revenue assistant on night duty observed smoke emanating from the office building and alerted the Deputy Tehsildar of Nimmanapalle …

Office Land Building Cid Madanapalle

8 months, 1 week ago

30 hospitalised after gas leak in Thoothukudi seafood unit

New Indian Express

THOOTHUKUDI: Thirty female workers of a private seafood exporting unit at Pudurpandiapuram in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district and a fire and rescue services officer were admitted to hospitals after they fainted due to a suspected ammonia gas leak at the plant on Friday night. According to sources, the employees working in night shift were on a break on Friday night …

Smoke Thoothukudi Unit Friday Night Electrical Issues

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Fire at Mayur Vihar building burns down three shops

The Hindu

A fire that broke out on the ground floor of a building in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar gutted several shops on its upper floors, a Delhi Fire Service official said on Monday. “We received a call regarding a fire at a cafe and a school uniform store in Phase 2 and Pocket B of Mayur Vihar at 11.40 p.m. on …

Dfs Mayur Vihar

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Bar owner dies, wife suffers burns as fire engulfs house in Udupi

The Hindu

A 52-year-old bar owner died, while his wife suffered serious burns following a fire in a house in Ambalpady in Udupi on Monday morning. His wife Ashwini, 47, is undergoing treatment in a private hospital in Manipal for serious burns she sustained. According to Udupi Town Police, the fire broke out around 5.30 a.m. following a malfunction of the centralised …

Udupi House His Wife

9 months, 4 weeks ago

Shopkeeper charred to death in Lucknow’s BKT grocery shop fire

Hindustan Times

A shopkeeper was charred to death, while consumer utility items worth several thousand rupees were gutted as a fire broke out in a grocery shop in the Bakshi Ka Talab area of Lucknow on Saturday morning. “Today at 8:36 am, a caller reported a fire in a shop in village Kotwa police station BKT under fire station Bakshi Ka Talab. …

Lucknow Shop Bkt Bakshi Ka Talab

10 months ago

Two fire incidents in Noida on Sunday; no casualties

Hindustan Times

Noida: Two fire incidents were reported at separate places of Noida on Sunday, however, none of them led to any casualty or caused injuries to anyone, Gautam Budh Nagar fire officers said on Sunday. One of the incidents was reported at a clothes manufacturing unit located in Noida’s Sector 65, and the other one was massive engulfing several kilometres of …

Noida Sector Sector 65

10 months ago

MP: Fire Breaks Out in Lokayukta Office

Deccan Chronicle

Bhopal: A fire broke out in the state Lokayukta office here on Sunday. Fire officials suspect that the waste materials dumped in a corner of the premises of the Lokayukta office might have caught fire due to the short circuit in a nearby electrical installation. Only garbage and some old furniture caught fire”, Lokayukta superintendent of police Manu Vyas told …

Madhya Pradesh Mahakal Lokayukta Office

10 months, 2 weeks ago

One staffer dead, seven injured as fire breaks out at Income Tax office

The Hindu

A 46-year-old office superintendent died and seven other staff members received injuries on Tuesday after a massive fire broke out on the third floor of the Income Tax Department building in Delhi’s ITO, the police said. An eyewitness said the fire started a little after 2 p.m. “We saw some women standing on the ledge of the windows of the …

Delhi Fir Seven Injured

10 months, 2 weeks ago

One killed in fire at Income Tax Office in Delhi

Hindustan Times

A 46-year-old man was found dead on the third floor of the Income Tax Office in the Central Revenue building in IP Estate, central Delhi, where a major fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon. Employees were on lunch break According to a fire department official, the fire broke out in room number 325, which was closed from the inside because …

Delhi Tax Office Official Room Income Tax Office

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Man sets government bus ablaze in Tamil Nadu after tiff with driver, held

New Indian Express

COIMBATORE: Coimbatore Rural Police arrested a 27-year-old man for setting a government bus on fire on Tuesday night over an argument with the driver. As per police, Vigneshkumar was en route to his native Thondamuthur to see his wife and newborn child, when he got into an argument with the driver of a government bus, plying from Narasipuram to Ukkadam, …

Government Bus Vigneshkumar Bus Ablaze

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Fire breaks out at Islamic Research Institute in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag

India TV News

A fire broke out in the Islamic Research Institute in Anantnag town, Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday evening. Fire breaks out in BSNL office store in Ranchi In another fire incident, a store room on the premises of a BSNL office in Jharkahnd's Ranchi caught flames on Sunday. Around eight fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the …

1 year ago

Tamil Nadu: Rs 5 crore worth jewels saved as guard spots burglar, informs police

New Indian Express

Speaking to TNIE, Singaravel said, "When I was guarding the bank, I saw sparks of fire coming from a jewellery shop which is just a few metres away from the bank at around 12.35 am. When I went and checked what was causing the fire, I found a masked man trying to weld the shop shutter by covering it with …

Guard Spots

1 year, 1 month ago

Blaze at drug controller’s office in Gurugram destroys all documents and samples

Hindustan Times

A massive blaze destroyed all the documents and samples stored in the office of the drug controller located in the dispensary at Gurugram’s Sector 45 on Tuesday night. Hundreds of files and samples kept in the office that dealt with hookah bars, medicines, drugs, liquor samples and documents related to raids were burnt when the fire broke out, officials said. …

Gurugram Dispensary Control Office

1 year, 2 months ago

Fire at TS Printing Press, Property Gutted

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: A massive fire broke out at the Telangana state government printing press warehouse at Mint Compound in Khairatabad in the early hours of Wednesday. By the time, I reached the spot, the firefighters and DRF teams along with police officials were at the scene,” director of the government textbooks printing press S. Srinivasa Chary told Deccan Chronicle. “The firefighters …

Press

1 year, 2 months ago

Delhi: Fire breaks out at garment store in Shahdara

India TV News

A fire broke out at a garment store in north-east Delhi's Shahdara area on Sunday evening, officials said. No casualties have been reported so far, officials of Delhi Fire Services said. The officials said they received a call at 9.05 pm about the blaze at the shop in Shahdara's Gandhi Nagar area, following which eight fire engines were pressed into …

Delhi Shahdara Garment Store

1 year, 4 months ago

Cigarette Butt Triggered Fire At Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour, Two Arrested: Andhra Police

ABP News

New Delhi: A cigarette butt thrown carelessly on a boat triggered a massive fire which gutted 30 fishing vessels in Visakhapatnam jetty earlier this week, police said on Saturday. In an inebriated state, Nani casually flicked a cigarette butt which led to the fire. “We have been able to solve the fire incident which had taken place in Visakhapatnam fishing …

Boat Visakhapatnam Butt Nani Cigarette Cigarette Butt

1 year, 4 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Over 30 fishing boats gutted in massive fire at Visakhapatnam harbour

Hindustan Times

A massive fire broke out at Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam fishing harbour and gutted around 35 fishing boats on Sunday night. Deputy Commissioner of Police Anand Reddy said the fire first broke out on a boat and then spread to nearly 35 fibre-mechanised boats at midnight. The fire first broke out on a boat and then spread to nearly 35 fibre-mechanised …

Visakhapatnam Boats Fishing Boats

1 year, 4 months ago

Man sets wine shop on fire after being denied alcohol in Visakhapatnam, arrested

India TV News

Crime news: A man set a wine shop on fire allegedly after he was denied alcohol in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam, following which he was arrested, the police said on Sunday. The incident took place in the Madurwada police station area of the city in which the man named Madhu reached the wine shop but due to the closing time, the …

Shop Wine Shop

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