Bedridden patients were forced to climb down stairs and some had to bank on relatives to carry them out to safety when a fire broke out at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday.Many alleg...

It’s simple, safe, strong and fire-proof. Coir rope-fastened bamboo pandals are passe. Welcome to the era of canopies, a new variety of pandals made of steel and iron rods and tarpaulins commonly se...

Additional chief secretary, home and political, Kumar Sanjay Krishna, inaugurated the new fire and emergency services building at Katlicherra in Hailakandi district on Thursday, as a part of the gover...

Metro coaches should have CCTV cameras and a communication system through which officials at the control room can speak to passengers, the commissioner of railway safety has said.The commissioner (eas...

A Bangladeshi housing official said Friday criminal charges would be filed against the owner of a building where a fire killed 25 people and which had four upper floors constructed illegally.Minister ...

Sir — The sale of poetry books has witnessed a surge of 66 per cent in the last five years — all because of Instagram! The social networking site is reported to be paving the way for poetry whose ...

Most commercial hubs in the city lack fire safety measures and lanes leading up to them do not have proper accessibility for fire tenders to reach quickly and douse flames, an audit has found.Rabindra...

The government-run fire station office at Golmuri is mulling contemporary firefighting measures in the wake of Friday’s Surat blaze at a four-storey building with a coaching centre that left at leas...

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...

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...