Ahmedabad: A fire broke out in a main gas pipeline near Kudasan on the Por road in Gandhinagar on Thursday after it was damaged during sewer line excavation, triggering panic among residents and shopkeepers, who rushed to safer places. Firefighters brought the blaze under control after the gas supply was cut off. No casualties were…
Nidhi.Bhardwaj@timesofindia.comTimes News NetworkLudhiana: Despite receiving advanced equipment under the Smart City Mission, Ludhiana’s fire brigade continues to battle flames and smoke in largely traditional ways.Firemen are often seen covering their faces with wet handkerchiefs or working without any protection, spending hours inside thick smoke, which poses a serious risk.The situation was starkly visible during Thursday’s…
Kolkata: Five people were killed and 20 others injured after a 32,000 sq ft under-construction warehouse at Taratala came crashing down around 11.30 am on Wednesday, burying around 40 labourers under tonnes of concrete slabs, mangled iron beams, steel and corrugated tin sheets.Nearly 400 personnel drawn from the Army, National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster…
Rourkela: Body of a 21-year-old woman, who went missing from her village in Deogarh district on Tuesday, was recovered from a pond in the village on Wednesday. Deogarh police, after registering an unnatural death case, are probing the case.The deceased has been identified as Dipali Pradhan, 21, a resident of Kalkat village under Deogarh police…
Jaipur: A truck carrying 359 LPG cylinders caught fire on Jaipur’s Ring Road Sunday afternoon, triggering panic and prompting police to temporarily halt traffic in both directions as a precautionary measure. Fortunately, firefighters reached the spot and extinguished the blaze within 10 minutes using a single fire tender.The driver of the truck escaped unhurt after…
Ahmedabad: Two major industrial fires struck the city between Friday night and Saturday, leaving one worker dead at a plastic-waste unit in Odhav. A second blaze at a chemical godown in Narol caused heavy smoke but resulted in no casualties.The fatal blaze broke out at approximately 11.50pm on Friday at Ambika Plastic, located behind the…
Ahmedabad: An engaged couple, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old youth, died by suicide after jumping into the Narmada Canal, police said. Though the body of the boy, identified as Himesh Bharatadi, has been found, Adalaj police said the body of the girl, Abha Bharatadi, was not found till late evening. Eyewitnesses told police that…
Times News NetworkKanpur: Deputy commissioner of police (South) Deependra Nath Chaudhary on Saturday convened a meeting with community members at Juhi police station in view of the forthcoming Moharram festival.The key points discussed during the meeting included the condition that the procession should follow only the pre-approved routes designated by the district administration, the procession…
Margao: A 40-year-old woman from Sasnamoddi, Cacora, who had fallen into a well, was rescued by locals and fire brigade personnel on Thursday. She was taken to the Cacora primary health centre, where she is learnt to be out of danger.Station fire officer Damodar Zambaulikar said that by the time the fire brigade reached the…
Navi Mumbai: A resident of a Kharghar building and three of her colleagues working at a BPO were trapped in a lift between the third and the fourth floors for about 50 minutes after a power outage early on Friday.Assuming it was only power tripping and someone would attend to it soon, they waited for…
