Fire broke out aboard two naval ships in Mumbai late on Tuesday night, fire brigade sources said. "We received a call shortly after midnight that fire broke out aboard two naval ships at the naval dockyard in South Mumbai," the sources told PTI.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust handles over 50 per cent of the country's container traffic.
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The avalanche hit the BRO camp between Mana and Badrinath between 5:30 am and 6 am on Friday, burying the workers inside eight containers and a shed, according to the Army.
Expressing displeasure at the non-compliance of fire safety norms at the revamped Wankhede stadium, venue of the 2011 World Cup final, the city fire brigade department on Friday said it will seek a reply from the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) in this regard.
Four industrial workers were killed when a fire broke out at a textile mill in Dombivali in Mumbai's adjoining Thane district in the wee hours on Thursday.
A fire on Saturday broke out at Mantralaya, the Maharashtra state secretariat complex, which was soon brought under control, fire brigade sources said.
Eight more bodies were recovered from the 150-year-old heritage building in upscale Park Street, raising the toll in the devastating fire that swept the building on Tuesday to 24, fire brigade sources said on Wednesday.
The fire, suspected to have originated in the electrical department in the basement of the AMRI hospital, swiftly spread to the first and second floors, trapping patients, with the fire brigade called in at 4:00 am, the sources said.
The massive blaze in a high rise in Mumbai that killed seven people and injured 18 others was caused apparently by a blast in an air-conditioner.
A major fire broke out at Pune's Koregaon Park Plaza in Pune on Thursday evening.
Seven bodies have been recovered in the operation that continued through the night, Sachin GIDC police station inspector Jignesh Chaudhari said.
Over 245 people have been killed in a devastating fire at a nightclub in Brazil, according to media reports. The fire started at 2 am local time at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria in southern Brazil, said authorities.
Learning a lesson from the fire that destroyed top four floors of the state secretariat last week, the authorities at the Maharashtra Legislature have imposed a ban on plywood in its vicinity.
Four persons were killed and nine others injured in a fire in an industrial area in suburban Mumbai, fire brigade officials said on Friday.
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Fire broke out in a residential building at Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai early on Sunday, fire brigade officials said.
The fire broke out around 7:30 pm, a local fire department official said, adding that an estimated 700 to 800 houses had been gutted.
Am assive fire engulfed the slum enclave of Behrampada in Bandra East, north west Mumbai, abutting the Bandra railway station.
Due to the tyre burst, the aircraft got stranded on the taxiway, prompting authorities to shut the airport's runway till 4 pm, affecting the services of passenger flights, officials said.
As many as 18 fire tenders were rushed to the spot.
A Guwahati-bound plane carrying 46 on-board landed under emergency conditions at the Kolkata airport here early morning after one of its engines caught fire.
A fire broke out on Tuesday in the first floor of the Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan in New Delhi, which houses office of the Union civil aviation ministry, but no one was injured and no files or records were damaged.
Three persons were killed on Wednesday and another injured after a major fire broke out at the Bombay House building, housing the Tata Group offices in South Mumbai.
Lieutenant General Hitesh Bhalla, General Officer Commanding, Fire and Fury Corps visited forward posts of the Siachen Brigade in eastern Ladakh near Demchok to review operational preparedness on Wednesday, July 31, 2024.
A large number of shops at the Hatibagan market in north Kolkata, one of the oldest in the metropolis, were reduced to ashes in a devastating blaze that broke out in the early hours on Thursday, official sources said.
Locals said there was a "chemical-like" smell at the site and thick white smoke everywhere as panic gripped the Paschim Vihar area after the blast happened near a CRPF school.
Two students were injured on Monday morning when a fire broke out in an MCD school in south-west Delhi, fire brigade officials said.
The blaze erupted around 11 am in the intensive care unit (ICU), where 20 COVID-19 patients were undergoing treatment.
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.
The blaze engulfed the Organic Technical branch of NCL. Leaping flames and plumes of billowing smoke could be seen from a distance.
The fire department said they received a call around 4.23 am about a fire in the factory at Udoh Nagar area after which seven fire tenders were rushed to the spot, the official said.
The fire broke out at the Balaji Estate in the Narol industrial area on the outskirts of the city.
The blaze started around 6:30 pm on Monday in an open plot near an IT Park along the General Arun Kumar Vaidya Marg in the western suburb, located adjacent to the Colony.
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Another airport official said on condition of anonymity that a spark flew out of from the rear of the plane and ignited the grass. "Thank god it happened only after the passengers alighted from the plane," the official said.
A devastating fire in the Maharashtra government secretariat, including offices of the chief minister and the deputy chief minister, on Thursday left two persons dead and 16 injured and destroyed large number of files, raising questions on whether any sabotage was the cause.
Many parents whose newborn babies were among those dead in the Bhandara hospital fire have blamed the staff there for dereliction of duty. They claimed that no doctor or nurse was present in the unit when fire broke out.
External agencies were digging and struck the pipeline on a road in Andheri, leading to a leakage. Some source of ignition led to the fire.
According to IAF, the pilots were on a routine training sortie when the incident occurred.
