From this year, Durga Puja committees will have to submit a written undertaking to the administration before Sashthi that their pandals are fireproof.Dhalbhum SDO Chandan Kumar on Thursday issued a di...

A man who carried his grandfather out of the building in his arms said he didn’t see any trolley or wheelchair. The cleaners at the hospital and the security personnel helped.Critical patients were ...

 The devastating fire at the 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro that gutted almost 90 per cent of its 20 million artefacts sparks concern about the vulnerability of Indian Museum, a s...

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A fire broke at the maternity unit of the Cooch Behar Government Medical College and Hospital on Thursday, forcing patients and relatives to scurry with newborns for safety.There were 111 newborns in...

Large windows, high ceilings, doors opposite windows and wide corridors — all features of British architecture — acted as saviours during the fire at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital on W...

 None of the state-run hospitals in the city has a valid fire safety certificate, health department officials said on Thursday to rip off what remains of the farce of safety seared by the blaze a...

In New Town, the stretch behind Nazrul Tirtha that leads to the Rail Vihar Complex in AF Block has more than 150 stalls encroaching on pavements. It is the same behind the New Town bus stop and in fro...

Sir — A recently published report says that jobs that are most susceptible to automation include those of cooks, waiters and truck drivers. Yet in each of these jobs, human acumen is key. Take, for ...

A long-standing dispute between the owners and tenants had turned the five-storey building at the Gariahat crossing, where a fire broke out early on Sunday, into a tinderbox.The two owners of the buil...