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
In an 85-page note to the Group of Ministers set up to look into the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister Kiran Reddy on Monday raised 36 crucial points why a separate state of Telangana is not desirable.
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There were some tense moments since the chamber is a few metres away from the prime minister's chamber.
"Barring fire extinguishers, the other safety measures that we had suggested were not there," the official said.
Anil Ambani group's Reliance Power on Monday made its debut on the bourses, listing at a premium of over 20 per cent, but slipped below the issue price in early morning trade.
Nearly a decade ago, the first fully electric vehicle (EV) caught fire on the road in the US. It was a model from Tesla, the world's most admired EV maker. A metal fragment punctured the underbelly of the vehicle, penetrating its battery pack, leading to a fire. Indian lawmakers and automakers have had nine years to study the incident (in fact, three Tesla Model Ss caught fire in two months in 2013) but seem to have learnt little.
The reason for the fire was not immediately known but Film City sources say it could be due to a short circuit.
Eight persons, including four of a family, were on Saturday injured when a cooking gas cylinder exploded at their residence in suburban Vikhroli in Mumbai.
Three Indians, including two women, died while one was injured in a fire that broke out in an apartment in Kuwait's city of Abu Halifa, fire officials said on Saturday.
The victims were choked to death in the fire that was sparked after a suspected short circuit in the early hours, police said.
Short-circuited by the lacklusture performance of electricity sector, the industry recorded a marginal slowdown in growth at 6.2 per cent in May this year compared to 6.4 per cent recorded in the comparable month of 2003.
Nearly 3,500 staffers were working in the building in the Mazagon area in South Mumbai when the fire broke out around 12.30 pm, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said. He assured a probe into the the fire, but clarified that no records were lost in the blaze due to digitisation of documents.
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Sixteen Indians, mostly from Tamil Nadu, were killed and seven others injured when a major fire broke out in a building housing over 200 workers in Bahrain early on Sunday.
A fire broke out in a four-storey commercial building in suburban Bandra in Mumbai on Saturday morning, but no casualties were reported.
As the hospital was sealed for investigation, some of them were still clueless about how their ailing relatives were doing after being shifted out.
Seven people, including two children, were killed and 17 injured in a devastating blaze at a hardware shop at Taktipur under Harihar Para Police station in the district Thursday night.
The incident occurred when people were trying to extinguish a fire that broke out in a house that had explosives.
The fire, described as 'minor', was due to a short-circuit in the antechamber next to Pranab Mukherjee's room, according to the fire department.
The Madras high court on Thursday ordered issuing notice to deposed All Indi Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Paneerselvam and his relatives on a criminal revision case initiated on its own, relating to their discharge in a disproportionate wealth case by a trial court in 2012.
Satwik and Chirag thus stood just one step away from their second Super 1000 title, having won the first one at the Indonesian Open in June last year.
The miners were trapped nearly a kilometer underground after a lake burst into their shaft October 23 in Novoshakhtinsk, near the Ukrainian border about 1000 km south of Moscow
Saibaba, an assistant professor of English, was suspended after his arrest by the Maharashtra Police in 2014. His wife and daughters were receiving half of his salary since the arrest.
People were still frantically searching for their loved ones as police said 19 people were still unaccounted for.
Shashank Singh played the innings of his life to power Punjab Kings to a famous win.
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'I was offered the role to begin with...what is important is that I have the opportunity to work with some of the best cricketers in the world and that excites me.'
According to the Nation newspaper, Kiptum was driving his Rwandan coach and a woman in a car near the Rift Valley village where he was born when the accident occurred.
At least three fires broke out in different locations of Delhi today. No casualties were, however, reported from any of the fires.
A consistent performer on the domestic circuit for Mumbai, Sarfaraz Khan has been in contention for national selection for the past few years.
