Subhankar Patra, who runs a Facebook birdwatching group called SundayWatch, said that although it was fascinating that birds were still coming in numbers to New Town, whose skyline adds several highri...

At least 16 people were injured in a fire incident that followed a gas cylinder blast at a four-storeyed building in Mumbai’s Lalbaug area on Sunday morning, officials said. According to a fire...

Just over a month following the death of a 19-year-old Uttam Kumar Sahu at the hands of his cousins at Daiguttu in Mango, some unidentified miscreants set a motorcycle on fire at his house during the ...

Police have arrested three senior officials of a company that operated a private Covid-19 hospital in Gujarat's Rajkot district where a fire killed five patients last week, a police official said ...

Three fires broke out at Jugsalai, Sonari and Mango localities on Diwali (Sunday) night, partially gutting two shops, and severely damaging a flat in a residential apartment. While a paint-cum-hardwa...

Around 23 mud and brick houses of marginal farmers were destroyed in a fire that started from a clay oven at Kailashpur village in East Burdwan’s Kalna on Saturday morning. A villager said Kach...

An NGO has reached out to 100-odd families to help them rebuild their lives after their homes got gutted in a fire on Tuesday. Many of these families have children and pregnant women who had to rush ...

A 70-year-old woman died of burns and a 40-year-old artisan was seriously injured after a fire broke out in a house in Kalighat’s Patuapara early on Thursday. Residents of the area saw thick fu...

A fire destroyed more than 50 shanties along GJ Khan Road in Tiljala on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Twenty-two fire engines were able to control the fire by 6pm. The fire broke out close to Forum...

A 28-year-old engineer of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC), who had tested positive for dengue, died at a city hospital on Wednesday morning. Raheed Zaman was in charge of the CMC’s sol...