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Police in Meerut's Kankerkheda area have booked two women accused of burning alive five stray puppies by pouring petrol over them, officials said on Friday.

Two women devotees from West Bengal waiting in a queue for prasad outside an ashram in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura suffered serious burns after a person serving 'khichdi' slipped and the hot food fell on them, officials said on Saturday.

Delhi woke up to a thick layer of smog this morning, and the air quality index (AQI) remained in the "very poor" category despite officials taking various anti-pollution measures.

The police have registered cases against 192 farmers in Haryana for burning crop residue, an official said on Monday.

Toxic air in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, Noida, and Ghaziabad is the result of Pakistan burning stubble, or agricultural waste, a UP pollution board official declared this week.

The desert city of Phoenix, Arizona, suffered a record 113 straight days with temperatures over 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) this year, leading to hundreds of heat-related deaths and more acres burned by wildfire across the state, officials said.

A Ugandan Olympian is in intensive care in a Kenyan hospital after being doused with petrol and set on fire allegedly by her partner, officials said.

Authorities noted that the death occurred before the official start of the event, which festival organizers confirmed began at 6 p.m.

Police in Maharashtra's Thane district have registered a case against the director of a private 'ashram' (shelter) for allegedly inflicting burns on the body of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, an official said on Friday.

A man addicted to online gambling was arrested in Bhiwandi in Thane district for allegedly murdering a 74-year-old woman, stealing her gold jewellery and then setting the house on fire to destroy evidence, a police official said on Monday.

Three people, including a five-year-old boy, died and two suffered burn injuries after their motorcycle came in contact with a high-tension power cable in the Hyderabad area of this Uttar Pradesh district, an official said on Monday.

The death toll in the Puri firecracker explosion mounted to 13 on Sunday after four more people succumbed to their burn injuries, according to an official statement.

A 65-year-old woman on Sunday died in AIIMS Rishikesh where she was admitted after getting burn injuries while trying to douse a forest fire that had reached her farm in a village in Pauri tehsil, officials said.

Three labourers at a pine resin factory in Almora died of burn injuries they sustained while dousing a forest fire that had reached close to their factory, an official said on Friday.

Six people were killed after a fire broke out in a hotel in Bihar's capital Patna today. Thirty others suffered burns in the fire at the hotel near the crowded Patna railway station, officials said.

Police in Meerut's Kankerkheda area have booked two women accused of burning alive five stray puppies by pouring petrol over them, officials said on Friday.

Two women devotees from West Bengal waiting in a queue for prasad outside an ashram in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura suffered serious burns after a person serving 'khichdi' slipped and the hot food fell on them, officials said on Saturday.

Delhi woke up to a thick layer of smog this morning, and the air quality index (AQI) remained in the "very poor" category despite officials taking various anti-pollution measures.

The police have registered cases against 192 farmers in Haryana for burning crop residue, an official said on Monday.

Toxic air in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, Noida, and Ghaziabad is the result of Pakistan burning stubble, or agricultural waste, a UP pollution board official declared this week.

The desert city of Phoenix, Arizona, suffered a record 113 straight days with temperatures over 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) this year, leading to hundreds of heat-related deaths and more acres burned by wildfire across the state, officials said.

A Ugandan Olympian is in intensive care in a Kenyan hospital after being doused with petrol and set on fire allegedly by her partner, officials said.

Authorities noted that the death occurred before the official start of the event, which festival organizers confirmed began at 6 p.m.

Police in Maharashtra's Thane district have registered a case against the director of a private 'ashram' (shelter) for allegedly inflicting burns on the body of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, an official said on Friday.

A man addicted to online gambling was arrested in Bhiwandi in Thane district for allegedly murdering a 74-year-old woman, stealing her gold jewellery and then setting the house on fire to destroy evidence, a police official said on Monday.

Three people, including a five-year-old boy, died and two suffered burn injuries after their motorcycle came in contact with a high-tension power cable in the Hyderabad area of this Uttar Pradesh district, an official said on Monday.

The death toll in the Puri firecracker explosion mounted to 13 on Sunday after four more people succumbed to their burn injuries, according to an official statement.

A 65-year-old woman on Sunday died in AIIMS Rishikesh where she was admitted after getting burn injuries while trying to douse a forest fire that had reached her farm in a village in Pauri tehsil, officials said.

Three labourers at a pine resin factory in Almora died of burn injuries they sustained while dousing a forest fire that had reached close to their factory, an official said on Friday.

Six people were killed after a fire broke out in a hotel in Bihar's capital Patna today. Thirty others suffered burns in the fire at the hotel near the crowded Patna railway station, officials said.