The police and fire brigade were at the spot and the situation was under control.
Charred human remains were found on Saturday on the second floor of the building in outer Delhi's Mundka area where a massive fire broke out a day back, Delhi Fire Service officials said.
The blaze erupted at the furniture market situated on Relief Road in Jogeshwari, fire brigade sources said.
P S Rahangdale, the chief of the Mumbai fire brigade, said an alert call was received by the department around 2.22 pm and fire fighters reached the spot within five minutes.
Nobody was injured in the fire, which was reported at 7.54 pm, the official from Disaster Management Unit of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said.
The blaze erupted around 7 am in Kamla building located opposite Gandhi Hospital at Gowalia Tank, the official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
Fire brigade officials admitted that organisers of the event had not complied with nearly 10 fire safety measures.
Among the victims were five children, one of them was a 3-month-old infant, police said.
Nearly 86 lakh people in the state's 32 districts have been affected by heavy rain and subsequent floods this year, bringing life to a screeching halt in many parts.
Around 14 people injured in the collapse are undergoing treatment.
'Had it collapsed on the railway tracks a major disaster could have occurred if a train arrived at that time'
Mumbai Police has banned the use of flying lanterns during Diwali celebration in a bid to avert possible fire and security threats caused by them to high rise buildings.
Five people have received burn injuries and are admitted in Holy Spirit hospital.
The prisoners allegedly hurled stones at policemen and started a fire in the jail after hearing about the death of an inmate, identified as Sandeep Yadav, in Saifai Medical College due to dengue.
The blaze erupted around 11 am in the intensive care unit (ICU), where 20 COVID-19 patients were undergoing treatment.
While two persons died after a portion of a `chawl' (tenement) collapsed in suburban Malvani, two others were killed after part of an old building collapsed in south Mumbai's Fort area, civic officials said.
The possibility that the data storage unit of the cockpit voice recorder was damaged cannot be ruled out at present.
'We were sleeping when suddenly we heard the sounds of bombs exploding'
"Barring fire extinguishers, the other safety measures that we had suggested were not there," the official said.
The building did not have the mandatory Occupation Certificate granted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, but it was already occupied by around 58 flat owners, according to the civic body.
"I asked everyone to keep the purifiers on their mouth. This stopped them from suffocating due to smoke and they were able to breath well, preventing inhalation of carbon dioxide," she said.
A devastating fire at a multi-storeyed building in Kolkata that claimed nine lives turned into the epicentre of a political slugfest on Tuesday, with the Trinamool Congress government and the Bharatiya Janata Party pointing accusatory fingers at the Railways and the state administration respectively, even as the bereaved families grieved at the loss of their near ones.
At least 16 people were killed as the building near the J J Hospital in south Mumbai caved in.
On Tuesday, Rao said there was a possibility of the PM's visit to Pune, and if that happens, it would be aimed at reviewing the status of the vaccine candidate for coronavirus infection and to know about its launch, production and distribution mechanisms.
IMD issued red alerts for Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Ernakulam and Idukki districts.
A major fire broke out last night at the Deonar dumping yard, which had recently battled a massive blaze that led to smog in the area.
The incident took place around 2.20 pm when a part of Bohala Apartment, a residential complex near Khar Gymkhana, caved in.
A massive fire has broken out at a large building in London's Camden Lock Market. As many as 10 fire engines and 70 firefighters are on the spot trying to douse the flames.
Two days after a fire left nine persons dead at the Carlton Towers in Bengaluru, fire brigade officials on Thursday said that several rules related to safety standards were violated in the commercial complex, making rescue operations difficult. Some passages in the building, including emergency exits were blocked, making it difficult for people to escape and fire brigade personnel to rush in, a senior fire brigade official said.
At least 14 workers were injured after a girder of an under-construction flyover at MTNL junction in suburban Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumba collapsed early on Friday, civic officials said.
'Just as I pulled the bed away from the monitor, another attendant's PPE suit caught fire. Luckily, a doctor came upstairs with a bucket of water and poured it on the attendant and saved him'
Abhay Kale, Divisional Fire Officer, at Fire Brigade's headquarters in Mumbai offers basic safety and prevention tips people should take till fire brigade comes to their rescue
At least 20 other persons are feared trapped under the debris of the building in Navi Vasti locality.
A wing of the building, located in Kurla, collapsed around midnight, officials said, adding that its another wing was also likely to crash and was vacated.
The Bangalore police may have scotched the chances of a successful probe by failing to stick to the standard operating procedure while probing the recent blast outside the Bharatiya Janata Party's office in Bengaluru.
While an elderly couple was charred to death, their daughter and grandson were trapped for nearly two hours on the ledge outside the balcony after a fire broke out at a 12th floor flat in Samtanagar area in Thane on Sunday morning.
Thirteen teams of the National Disaster Response Force and three of the State Disaster Response Force were deployed in vulnerable districts of the state, a disaster management department report said.
A fire broke out at a building in Ballard Pier area of south Mumbai Wednesday morning, fire brigade sources said.
While Ekta Bhardwaj, 31, died Thursday night, the body of Sunita Srivastava was recovered on Friday, officials said, adding that operations by rescue personnel at the incident site are still on.
The fire broke out in a flat on the 20th floor.
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