23:38
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its allied bodies gave their feedback and suggestions to further improve the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government's economic policies to party chief Amit Shah and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, sources said today.The suggestions were shared during a two-day...
23:16
Opposition Congress and Nationalist Congress Party today slammed the Mumbai civic administration and the state government for the Kamala Mills fire that killed 14 people and injured several others.They demanded a high-level probe into the tragedy and said strict action should be taken against...
22:44
The government on Friday cautioned investors to be wary of virtual currencies like Bitcoin, saying they are like Ponzi schemes with no legal tender and protection.There is a real and heightened risk of investment bubble of the type seen in Ponzi schemes which can result in sudden and prolonged...
21:57
Suffocation and not burn injuries was the cause behind most of the deaths in the Kamala Mills compound fire, according to the survivors undergoing treatment at civic hospitals in Mumbai.When fire broke out at the '1 Above' pub, we rushed to exit the place but there was a stampede as the exit gate...
21:51
In a video gone viral, Congress MLA Asha Kumari is seen slapping a woman constable on duty during party chief Rahul Gandhi's visit to Himachal Pradesh, only to get two slaps in return from the police official.Former minister Dhani Ram Shandil had to intervene to quell the frayed tempers.The...
20:37
The recent Ockhi cyclone led to a piling up of tonnes of plastic debris along the coasts of Kerala, Goa, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and particularly along the major beaches of Mumbai, the government today said.Mahesh Sharma, the minister of state for environment, in a written reply in the...
19:43
Some patrons of '1 Above' casually took selfies of the massive flames that leapt metres into the sky, while a few others lay immobilised in drunken stupor, delaying evacuation from the pub that was devastated in the blaze that killed 14 people in Mumbai, eyewitnesses said today.Difficulty in...
19:27
Loan defaulters can participate in bidding under the insolvency proceedings after paying due interest and making their bad loan accounts operational, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today.The government cannot allow loan defaulters to merrily walk back by paying a fraction of the due amount,...
18:51
The Kamala Mills pub 1 Above, where 14 people were killed in a fire shortly after midnight, today said the blaze started from the adjoining property and claimed it had all the necessary approvals and safety norms in place.It also blamed Mojo's Bistro on the floor below for not having an emergency...
18:16
India's financial capital was rocked by three tragedies this year - a deluge, a stampede and a major blaze -- all on the 29th. The series of '29' began on August 29 when torrential rain brought Mumbai to its knees, disrupting rail, road and air services, uprooting trees and leaving hundreds of...
18:03
The pub was '1 Above', the music was loud and the cake was chocolate. The setting was perfect as Khushbu Bhansali rang in her 29th birthday with friends and family at the rooftop restaurant at Kamala Mills compound in central Mumbai.But Khushbu, who turned 29 on the 29th, did not live to see...
17:39
BJP MP Hema Malini today blamed Mumbai's high population for the deadly fire at a restaurant in Mumbai's Kamala Mills premises.Speaking to reporters outside Parliament today, she said, It's not that the police aren't doing their job. They do a great job. But the population is so high.Suggesting...
17:01
Siddharth Shroff, a survivor in the Kamala Mills fire said, Around 150 people were in the '1 Above' restaurant when the fire broke out at 12:30 pm. We rushed to the exit gate, but it was narrow. It was difficult to escape. Somebody dropped us at hospital. I received 20% burns.A fire that...
16:37
And we are back! @MirrorNow telecast has been restored from make shift studios in Noida, Mirror Now editor, Faye D'Souza tweets. The @MirrorNow studios in Kamala mills are not operational today. The team has been flown to Noida to start telecast from makeshift studios there.
16:20
For the next few days, drivers at cab-aggregator Ola, in the Delhi-NCR region, would periodically get a recorded message from the Gurgaon Police 'advising' them on how to behave with riders. The same kind of messages would be relayed to drivers in other states as well, reports Karan Choudhury in...
15:55
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis visits the site of the Kamala Mills fire in Mumbai and orders a high-level probe. He said action has been against five BMC officials. BMC officials and hotel owners are responsible for the horrifying incident. Action will be taken if negligence is proven. The...
15:38
BMC finds its first fall guys. Commissioner Ajoy Mehta suspends five BMC officials for negligence in connection with the fire at Kamala Mills. The fire that started at a rooftop pub hosting a birthday party spread rapidly through the building, killing 14 people, most of them women, shortly after...
15:26
Neelam Krishnamoorthy, President, Association of victims of Uphaar tragedy on the Kamala Mills fire: Human life is very cheap in India. There is corruption at every level and its the ordinary people who have to pay. Each time I see a fire taking place and people dying, it angers me a lot and I...
15:06
Mail from Times to its employees. The Mumbai office employees of Mirror Now, ET Now, Romedy Now, Movies Now and other channels are working from home due to the fire at Kamala Mills. All the offices are located at the mills. This is what the mail says:Dear All Kindly work from Home for today...
14:56
About 15 employees of the TV9 Marathi channel working the night shift had a providential escape when a fire broke out shortly after midnight in a pub above their ground floor office. The midnight blaze started in the '1 Above' pub on the terrace of the Trade House Building in the Kamala Mills...
14:32
Barring two, all the bodies of the Kamala Mills fire victims have been claimed from KEM hospital. Two victims, identified as Shefali and Promila, were from outside Mumbai and there are formalities involved for their relatives claiming their bodies, reports Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.The death toll...
14:29
TTV Dinakaran takes oath as MLA from the RK Nagar constituency of Chennai. The ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu on Sunday suffered a major setback with rival faction candidate TTV Dinakaran winning the prestigious RK Nagar assembly bypoll, bettering J Jayalalithaas...
14:10
An eyewitness on Friday said loss of lives in the Kamala Mills fire could have been averted.A huge fire broke out at Kamla Mills compound in Lower Parel locality of Mumbai in the early hours of Friday in which 14 people were killed.Sharad Jadhav, who works with TV9...
13:15
Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan: I have been to Kamala Mills; it is like a bhool bhulaiaya, has narrow lanes. So obviously there has been negligence.
13:12
After speaking to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis over Kamala Mills fire that claimed 14 lives, Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir said strict action would be taken against the guilty. It is a very unfortunate incident, the state...
12:51
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Friday described the massive fire at the Kamala Mills in Mumbai that claimed 14 lives as an 'unfortunate incident'.Raut told ANI, The entire mishap is unfortunate which cannot be described with words. We can only express our...
12:36
Further corroboration that casualties could have been avoided. Dr Harish Pathak, Forensics department head at KEM Hospital said, Almost all the victims died to asphyxiation, none of them have died due to the flames but due to fumes. A proper evacuation plan could have avoided this.All the bodies...
12:12
The policy has been passed with a clause that no terrace restaurant will be allowed within 10 metres of a residential building. Read more
12:08
How the BMC simplified the process of getting licences to restaurants. Read the rules here.
12:06
Financial consultant Sandip Sabharwal who lives a few metres from Kamala Mills says this was a calamity waiting to happen. Most buildings in the compound are decades old and have been refurbished to house more restaurants and pubs The staircases are narrow and the kitchens have no fire-fighting...
11:59
King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital Dean Dr Avinash Supe said on Friday that the civic hospital has received 12 injured and 14 dead bodies from the Kamala Mills Compound, where the fire broke out in the early hours today. Addressing the media, Dr Supe said as per postmortem...
11:53
The names of the 14 killed in the '1 Above' fire. The list was released by the forensics department at KEM Hospital. A birthday bash at a pub in a central Mumbai building ended in a tragedy as 14 people, including 11 women, were killed after a blaze broke out shortly after midnight, an official...
11:25
The charred skeleton of the '1 Above' restaurant after the fire.
11:24
To give you the scale of devastation at the rooftop '1Above' restaurant, this is what it looked like.
11:08
Kamala Mills fire: A doctor who was at the restaurant last night tells India Today that she and her friend who were dining at '1 Above' were in the process of paying the bill when they noticed a small fire at one end of the restaurant and within seconds it had become an inferno. Everyone rushed...
10:48
BMC Commissioner Ajoy Mehta had visited Kamala Mills at midnight and has taken stock of the situation. Asked him to take strong action against erring officials immediately, tweets Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Of the 14 injured in the fire, 12 are out of danger now, the Dean of...
10:40
Reports say that the fire started at the '1-Above' restaurant from the rooftop, after its shed (made of bamboo and plastic) started to burn. Most of the guests tried to take shelter in the bathroom and got trapped there. They didn't find their way out and asphyxiated to death in the...
10:28
Pallavi @bombaywaali on the Kamala Mills restaurant fire: Ways to die in Bombay- stampede, open manholes, fire, tree falling on you.. oh the floods! Spirit of Bombay to die whenever, wherever! So not worth it. Will the authorities ever pay attention to Bombay's infracture? #KamalaMills...
10:20
Post mortem reports of those who died in the Kamala mill blaze in Mumbai has revealed that suffocation was the cause behind all deaths.Dr Rajesh Dere of King Edward Memorial hospital who performed the post-mortem confirmed the cause of deaths.The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in a press...
09:58
Prime Minister Narendtra Modi tweeted, Anguished by the fire in Mumbai. My thoughts are with the bereaved families in this hour of grief. I pray that those injured recover quickly: PM @narendramodi
09:34
Top angle view of the KamalaMills compound in Lower Parel, where a fire broke out last night & claimed 14 lives
09:20
A woman who managed to get out unharmed in the Mumbai blaze has recounted the horror of the fire on Twitter. Identified as Dr Sulbha KG Arora, she wrote on Twitter, The Kamala Mills fire started at 1 Above. I was there and barely made it out alive. Some were not so lucky. Praying for...
09:01
At least 12 people have been killed in a fire at an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York.New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said four other people were critically injured. The fire is now under control, he added.The building is located near Fordham University and the Bronx Zoo. The...
08:42
A 28-year-old woman celebrating her birthday was among those who died, her grandfather has said. Kamala Mills, a refurbished industrial compound, houses swanky restaurants and other commercial establishments.The fire in the building started on the top floor and engulfed the structure in less...
08:28
The list of the 14 people who are confirmed dead.
08:21
President Ram Nath Kovind took to Twitter to express his sorrow after 15 people were killed in a blaze that broke out at a roof-top pub in Mumbai. The President wrote, Disturbing news about the fire in Mumbai. Condolences to the bereaved families and wishing the injured an early recovery....
08:17
Fifteen people including 12 women, most of them in their twenties and early thirties, were killed in a massive fire that started from a restaurant in Mumbai's Kamala Mills compound late on Wednesday evening, and spread rapidly to nearly restaurants and offices as well.It is being reported that...
04:18
14 people have died in a fire that broke out in a pub in the Kamala Mills compound in central Mumbai at about 12.30 am.Most of the dead are reported to be young women. PTI reports that the fire broke out shortly after midnight on the third floor of the four-storeyed building.
00:35
United States President Donald Trump on Thursday criticised China for allowing oil to go into North Korea.'Caught RED HANDED - very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea. There will never be a friendly solution to the North...
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