A major fire broke out on Saturday afternoon in a prominent hotel in Delhi, fire brigade officials said.
Four fire tenders have been sent to put out the fire, the reason of which is still not known, police said adding there was no report of casualty or injuries to anyone so far.
Rescue operations continued through the night at the site of the incident which claimed 11 lives and left more than 200 people injured, they said.
A major fire broke out in the Military Canteen Stores Department building in Bangalore on Tuesday.
A Pharmaceutical company was on Sunday gutted in a fire in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Fire Brigade sources said 30 fire tenders have been pressed into service to control the blaze.
ISRO's vendor policy and quality control processes are under scanner.
Thick smoke was seen billowing out of the windows of the building, housing several government offices.
Some of the protesters claimed that the police baton charged them when they were holding a peaceful agitation.
Six persons, including four women, died of asphyxiation following a major fire in a multi-storey commercial complex in Secunderabad, officials said Friday.
Seven people, including three children, were killed in a blaze that ravaged through the shanties in northeast Delhi in the early hours of Saturday.
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.
Amidst rumblings within the state Bharatiya Janata Party seeking a change of leadership in strife-torn Manipur, Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday tendered his resignation to Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla at the Raj Bhavan in Imphal.
A major fire broke out in a multi-storey building housing offices of banks, around 300 metres from Parliament House, in New Delhi on Wednesday evening, fire brigade officials said.
Even as Karnataka returns to normalcy, a fire at a Church on the outskirts of Bangalore has raised quite a storm. While the police maintain that the fire at the St Anthony's Church at Yadavanahalli under Attibele police station was just an accident, the Church authorities take an opposing stance.
A fire broke out in a museum inside the City Palace on Sunday. No one was injured in the incident.
A major fire today broke out in the 24-floor Chatterjee International building, trapping several people on the top floor of the high rise, which houses many commercial establishments on the Jawaharlal Nehru Road on Tuesday.
Pakistan's former cricket captain Wasim Akram has received an unconditional apology from the retired military man who fired on his car during a road rage incident in Karachi earlier this month.
A fire broke out on the 20th and 21st floor of the new wing of Hotel Taj Palace in Mumbai on Tuesday morning. The police described it as an accidental fire, and assured that it was not due to any blasts in the hotel.Currently, there are no guests in the hotel, which had witnessed a nearly 60-hour siege during the terror attack in Mumbai on November 26.
Over 20 fire tenders fought the flames for over two hours, sources said.
Three children admitted in government-run Kamla Nehru Children's Hospital in Bhopal died in a fire that broke out on Monday night, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.
A fire on Saturday broke out at Mantralaya, the Maharashtra state secretariat complex, which was soon brought under control, fire brigade sources said.
A major fire broke out at Pune's Koregaon Park Plaza in Pune on Thursday evening.
The Bahujan Samaj Party office in Ghaziabad caught fire late on Thursday night in a suspected attack in the wake of the arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi, who had made derogatory remarks about Chief Minister Mayawati, but the police attributed the blaze to short circuit.
A fire broke out in the Andhra Pradesh high court building in the wee hours of Monday. According to sources, the fire started around 4 am on the second floor of the building, which houses a library and lockers of the advocates.
Fire tenders fought for two hours to douse the flame
A terrible fire engulfed the prestigious Stephen's House building near Park Street in the heart of Kolkata on Tuesday afternoon.
Fire broke out in a residential building at Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai early on Sunday, fire brigade officials said.
Four persons were killed and nine others injured in a fire in an industrial area in suburban Mumbai, fire brigade officials said on Friday.
Eight fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the fire which engulfed the entire sixth floor of the building.
The fire broke out in the ninth floor of 'Himalaya House' on Kasturba Gandhi Marg at around 10:45 am, fire department said.
As many as 18 fire tenders were rushed to the spot.
A major fire broke out in an abandoned oil well of Oil India Ltd at Kuhibari near Dikon in Assam's Dibrugarh district on Thursday causing more than 500 families and hundreds of tea workers to be evacuated to safer places.
Engineers have been rushed in a special flight, which is expected to land at the airport on Monday afternoon to repair the damage and make it airworthy.
Forty fire tenders have been battling the blaze since 1:18 IST, sources said.
A major fire broke out on Saturday at a petrol storage tank of state-owned Indian Oil Corp's Hazira terminal in Gujarat.
Nearly 100 people have been killed and 50 others injured, some of them who jumped out of windows to save their lives, in a deadly fire in a three-storey garment factory in Pakistan's financial hub Karachi.
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
Nearly 2500 shops and several buildings were gutted in a major fire that broke in Kolkata's biggest wholesale market early Sunday, fire brigade sources said.
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