Police have initiated an investigation to ascertain whether the fire in the new Assembly building at Kute in Ranchi on Wednesday was an accident or sabotage.A team from the forensic science laboratory...

At least 18 Indians were among the 23 people killed and over 130 injured in a horrific LPG tanker blast at a ceramic factory in Sudan, the Indian mission in Khartoum said on Wednesday.Sixteen Indians ...

Three of the victims of the hotel fire in Delhi belonged to a 13-member family that rose early and were getting ready to leave for Haridwar when disaster struck.The family from Ernakulam in Kerala had...

Sir — It was heartbreaking to read about all the animals that died when a fire tore through a monkey enclosure at the Krefeld Zoo in northwestern Germany at the dawn of the new year. Police suspect ...

A group of architects has suggested that stalls on the Gariahat footpaths be made of fire-retardant materials with a translucent shed that would allow sunlight to reach the sidewalks.Abin Chaudhuri, w...

It was pure luck that no one died in the midnight fire at Gurudas Mansion, except, pathetically, caged birds. As is now the established pattern in the fires of Calcutta, a combination of destructive c...

At least 13 people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday when the plane caught fire mid-air and made an emergency landing at a Moscow airport on Sunday, Russian news agenci...

A 14-year-old boy fell from the footboard of a bus while getting off on Bidhan Sarani on Thursday evening. Jeet Jana, a student of Hindu School, was taken to a government hospital with injuries on his...

Sir — It was amusing to learn that after Hans Raj Hans and Sunny Deol, the popular singer, Daler Mehndi, has also joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. While it is evident that the BJP is trying to bol...

As many as five vegetable, fruit and grocery shops were gutted a fire that possibly erupted after midnight on Sunday here at cramped Daily Market, close to Ranchi Main Road, where fire tenders could n...