A fire tore through a martial arts training centre in China on Friday killing 18 people, with one state media outlet saying most of the victims were children who were staying there. The blaze broke o...

At least 18 workers, mostly women, were charred to death in a devastating fire that broke out at a chemical unit in an industrial area in Pune district on Monday afternoon, officials said. According ...

Firefighters on Saturday morning recovered charred bodies of four unidentified persons from a building in North 24 Parganas, where a devastating fire broke out a day ago, reducing to ashes a vest manu...

A 50-year-old headmaster of a government middle school in Pakur district was charred to death on Wednesday when a sudden blaze erupted in the building. The deceased, identified as Nakul Pandey, was i...

A woman who had suffered burns from a candle while performing puja at her home a fortnight ago died in hospital on Tuesday. Police said Sima Dhar, 52, a resident of CR Colony in Jadavpur, lived with ...

A 64-year-old woman died of burn injuries on Sunday, days after her apparel had caught fire from a candle while performing the last rites of her husband. This was the fourth reported case in Calcutta...

An elderly woman who suffered burns while cooking at her daughter’s home in Radha Madhab Dutta Garden Lane, in the Beleghata area, on Sunday evening died on Monday. Police suspect a leak in an L...

The police seized around 122kg of cannabis, valued at Rs 50 lakh, from a car, and arrested two persons in Birbhum’s Dubrajpur on early Tuesday morning. Police sources said that preliminary inve...

A temple priest died after being set on fire by five people over a land dispute in Rajasthan's Karauli district, police said on Friday. The five accused allegedly poured petrol on Babu Lal Vaishn...

Cops reached a rented flat in Azadgarh after receiving a call on 100 to find a woman with burns all over her and her friend with burns on his hand after midnight on Tuesday, police said. She had appa...