Das also spoke about her involvement in the ‘Dark is Beautiful’ campaign, recalling how she was initially unsure about whether the issue deserved standalone attention, but realised its imp...

Two women and a man were killed when a firecracker factory in the Mohanpur-Sonaria area of South 24-Parganas’ Nodakhali caught fire on Wednesday morning. The fire at the factory near Budge Budg...

A bus carrying North Macedonian tourists crashed in flames on a highway in western Bulgaria before daybreak on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people, including 12 children, officials said.  The ca...

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday promised farmers to drop old cases of stubble burning against them but asked them not to set the paddy straw on fire in future. The chief min...

The Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT) on Monday urged a Delhi court not to suspend 7-year jail terms awarded to real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal for tampering with evidence in t...

  A massive fire broke out at a scrap godown in suburban Mankhurd in the wee hours of Friday, but no casualty was reported, a fire brigade official said. The blaze started in the godown, locate...

A 60-year-old man was killed after a fire broke out at his residence here, an official of the Himachal Pradesh disaster management department said on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Kishore B...

Forgotten lessons Sir — A survey commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany found that more than half of the respondents across the United Kingdom did not know tha...

A Delhi court Wednesday sought response from the government and Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT) on appeals challenging 7-year jail terms awarded to real estate barons Sushil and Gopal ...

The state government has decided to carry out fire audits at all hospitals, state-run and private, to check their preparedness in handling an emergency and whether fire fighting measures are in order....