Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief and condoled the loss of lives in a massive fire at a game zone in Gujarat's Rajkot in which 20 people, including children, were charred to death on Saturday.
Speaking to ANI, Rajkot Commissioner of Police, Raju Bhargava said, "The fire is under control, and the rescue operations are ongoing. Around 20 bodies have been recovered and sent to the hospital for post-mortem examination. A probe will be taken up after the rescue and dousing operation
According to the Delhi Fire Services officials, the fire call was received from the Mundka area at 4:30 pm. The fire broke out at a factory at Gali No 11 near Metro Pillar No 610 in the Mundka industrial area.
Atleast three people have lost their lives and four were injured after a blast in the furnace at a scrap factory under Harduaganj Police Station in Aligarh on Friday night.
Three more bodies were recovered on Friday morning from the site of a boiler blast in Dombivli area of Thane district in Maharashtra, bringing the death toll to 10, said officials. The blast occurred at a chemical plant on May 23, causing a massive fire that continues to necessitate cooling
Eight naxalites were killed in an ongoing encounter with security personnel, which started yesterday in the border area of Narayanpur and Bijapur districts in Chhattisgarh.
Jammu & Kashmir Rural Livelihoods Mission and women of Self Help Groups from Chenani in Udhampur district have come up with an innovative method to combat forest fires.
Two FIRs were filed after posters will slogans to boycott the Lok Sabha elections in the national capital were found on the walls at multiple points of the sprawling Delhi University campus on Thursday, police said.