Deputy Commissioner of Police Mahinder Kumar said nine bodies have been recovered from the mill and the fire has been brought under control. However, several people were still feared trapped inside the mill. The police suspect that the fire was caused by a short circuit
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his convoy will spend the night on a farm in Bhadohi as the district administration has denied permission for his stay at a government college citing a police recruitment exam, a party member said on Thursday.
The actor reportedly died in his sleep.
Last week, Indiabulls Infratech, part of the Indiabulls group, bagged NTC's Bharath Mill land, spread over 8.3 acres, in Mumbai for Rs 1,505 crore (Rs 15.05 billion).
Workers of a jute mill allegedly beat to death the chief executive officer in the factory premises after he refused to agree to their demand on wages at Bhadreswar in West Bengal's Hooghly District.
A major fire has been reported at Gulmohar Mill situated on Dadasaheb Phalke Marg in the Dadar area of central Mumbai. At press time no serious casualty has been reported, nor has anyone been trapped in the fire, the Mumbai fire brigade said.
Oudh Sugar Mills Ltd named Chandresh Chakradhar Chhaya as company secretary.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that the sale of surplus lands by National Textile Corporation was legal.
Sukhwinder Singh scored a goal in the 84th minute for JCT Mills to equalise with Tollygunge.
In the backdrop of the scarcity of sugarcane this season, the sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh are keeping the farmers in good humour by collectively making advance payment of nearly Rs 770 crore.
From fantasy to football, OTT is beaming with all kinds of goodies this week.
The Lewiston, Maine Police Department have released a picture of the 'suspect' involved in the shooting.
The OceanGate Expeditions submersible went missing shortly after its voyage to explore the wreckage of the sunken Titanic began on Sunday.
New Zealand fast bowler Kyle Mills has been ruled out of action for at least four months following a shoulder and knee injury.
Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah on Friday said the government has installed 18,000 wind mills across the country with production capacity of 10,386 MW.
Currently, the company is in the process of demolishing the old buildings and is expected to start construction work on the mill land by the year-end, a top company official said. The company plans to build a hotel and a commercial complex for IT and ITeS (IT-enabled Services) companies on the 20-acre land.
Engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is preparing the ground to begin the commercial sale of electrolysers in September, which would be 50 per cent cheaper than its European counterparts, a senior company executive has said. An electrolyser is a key equipment required for the generation of green hydrogen. Last quarter, L&T manufactured its first electrolyser as a prototype.
The court asked the city's civic body to bring its house in order.
Harlequin Mills & Boon India (HMBI), the Indian subsidiary of publisher of Mills and Boon novels, is planning to launch their digital operations by the end of this year.
A sessions court in Mumbai on Thursday held guilty three convicts in the Shakti Mills photojournalist gang rape case under an amended IPC section, which entails death penalty, for committing repeated offence.
For someone who is such an indefatigable litigant, what is stopping Mr Saxena from using the law to depose Mr Kejriwal? Maybe we will get the answer after May 25, notes Aditi Phadnis.
They were present in the pub when the blaze occurred, but fled without helping the guests, the official said.
Presently director at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Sugarcane Breeding Centre in Coimbatore, Bakshi Ram's next target is to improve both cane yields and sucrose content in cane varieties cultivated beyond the Vindhyas in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, as also Maharashtra.
'We expect the bull-market phase to still persist, but now led by large-caps which offer better valuation and benefit from FII inflows.'
'We expect continued pressure on midcaps, but any sharp correction looks unlikely from here on.'
New Zealand's most experienced pacer Kyle Mills is "staggered" by the wealth of talent in the Indian batting order but remains optimistic that the Kiwis would be able to contain the rampaging visitors by bowling dot balls.
The home ministry also asked the state government to send details of the action taken following the attacks on the central probe agency teams, the sources said.
Reliance Industries, Tata Chemicals, Bharti Enterprises' Fieldfresh and Indian Oil are among several large companies that have evinced interest in leasing closed sugar mills that the Bihar government is offering, mainly to exploit opportunities to make ethanol to meet mandatory petrol blending norms that were introduced this year.
Police sources in N C Hills said the DHD (J) ultras, also known as 'Black Widow', arrived at the saw mills and fired indiscriminately killing eight on the spot.
Buckling under pressure from mill land developers, the Maharashtra government is considering reducing the value of textile mill lands in its Stamp Duty Ready Reckoner
Robert Card, the suspect in the Lewiston, Maine, shooting rampage, was found dead on Friday night, the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office confirmed on Facebook, CNN reported.
Demand payment of sugarcane arrears, company says there are no dues.
Groaning under the burden of huge arrears to sugarcane farmers and rising losses, leading sugar producers of Uttar Pradesh have begun filing cases against a December 2006 directive of the state government on sugarcane prices.
Mangesh Kasalkar, an MNS worker, and RTI activist Iyas Khan had repeatedly warned the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation about the illegal extensions and violations by 1 Above, a rooftop pub inside the labyrinthine Kamala Mills in Mumbai's Lower Parel, where 14 people where died in a fire on Thursday night, but nothing was done.
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As sugarcane farmers and large landowners do not form a part of her vote bank, Mayawati is expected not to raise further the minimum support price for sugarcane when mills go on stream in October 2007.
With domestic prices of cotton ruling high, importers have found good parity for buying cotton from abroad and the consignments are expected to land on Indian shores very soon.
The Minister said the department is yet to calculate the exact interest-free loans to be provided to the industry.
Formula One drivers expressed shock after the sport's governing body quadrupled the amount stewards can fine them to a maximum of one million euros ($1.06 million).
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