Fire Mishap

Following the fire mishap in Kuwait which took away over 40 lives and left over 50 injured, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that it was "truly tragic" and hoped that the Kuwait government takes action against those responsible.

After visiting the accident site on Sunday, D K Shivakumar told reporters that the government has announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh for the next of kin of each victim.

A military chopper accident left 22 US soldiers injured in Syria late on Monday. The cause behind the "mishap" is being probed, they said, clarifying that the helicopter didn't come under attack.

A fire broke out in a state-run hospital block here on Wednesday and over 100 patients were swiftly shifted by officials averting a major mishap and the blaze was doused in a 3-hour battle by firefighters, authorities said.

After four children were killed in a fire mishap at Kamla Nehru Hospital in Bhopal on Monday, the hospital's Pediatrics Department head, Dr Jyotsna Srivastava, today said that eight more infants had died within 36 hours of the accident.

Three officials of a private hospital were arrested on Monday in connection with the August 9 fire mishap which killed 10 patients at a star hotel converted to a Covid-19 care facility.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reviewed the situation arising out of the oil well blow out in Assam's Tinsukia district and pressed for capacity development of organisations to prevent such mishaps in the future.

An Indian couple settled in the US is believed to among those who have died in a boat mishap that took place off Santa Cruz island in California on Monday morning.

As Apple takes the Siri ‘grading’ process in-house over privacy concerns, the company has reportedly laid off 300 contractors in Cork, Ireland.

As many as 50 vehicles were gutted in a major fire mishap at a dumping ground in Delhi on Saturday.

A NASA safety panel said on Thursday that Saturday's accident on a SpaceX astronaut capsule happened after eight engines were test fired.

Toyota Kirloskar Motor is reaching out to its customers whose cars were damaged in the Bangalore Airshow parking lot fire accident which happened on February 23. Toyota customers can call Toyota Assistance Centre at 180042500001 or 08066293001 and get on-site assistance through their insurance arm which will be there at the incident site from 8:30 ...

A 50-year-old man was burnedto death in a fire mishap in Ved Vihar Colony of Loni town, the officials said on Sunday.

Mumbai witnessed more than 84,000 fire incidents in the last 10 years leading to death of over 600 people, the Shiv Sena claimed Wednesday and questioned the state administration's preparedness to handle such mishaps.

There have been over 49,000 incidents of fire in Mumbai in the last one decade, killing more than 600 people, the Maharashtra government said today. Minister of State for Urban Development Ranjit Patil said in the state Assembly that a total of 49,391 fire mishaps were reported in the megapolis between 2008 and 2018.

Following the fire mishap in Kuwait which took away over 40 lives and left over 50 injured, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that it was "truly tragic" and hoped that the Kuwait government takes action against those responsible.

After visiting the accident site on Sunday, D K Shivakumar told reporters that the government has announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh for the next of kin of each victim.

A military chopper accident left 22 US soldiers injured in Syria late on Monday. The cause behind the "mishap" is being probed, they said, clarifying that the helicopter didn't come under attack.

A fire broke out in a state-run hospital block here on Wednesday and over 100 patients were swiftly shifted by officials averting a major mishap and the blaze was doused in a 3-hour battle by firefighters, authorities said.

After four children were killed in a fire mishap at Kamla Nehru Hospital in Bhopal on Monday, the hospital's Pediatrics Department head, Dr Jyotsna Srivastava, today said that eight more infants had died within 36 hours of the accident.

Three officials of a private hospital were arrested on Monday in connection with the August 9 fire mishap which killed 10 patients at a star hotel converted to a Covid-19 care facility.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reviewed the situation arising out of the oil well blow out in Assam's Tinsukia district and pressed for capacity development of organisations to prevent such mishaps in the future.

An Indian couple settled in the US is believed to among those who have died in a boat mishap that took place off Santa Cruz island in California on Monday morning.

As Apple takes the Siri ‘grading’ process in-house over privacy concerns, the company has reportedly laid off 300 contractors in Cork, Ireland.

As many as 50 vehicles were gutted in a major fire mishap at a dumping ground in Delhi on Saturday.

A NASA safety panel said on Thursday that Saturday's accident on a SpaceX astronaut capsule happened after eight engines were test fired.

Toyota Kirloskar Motor is reaching out to its customers whose cars were damaged in the Bangalore Airshow parking lot fire accident which happened on February 23. Toyota customers can call Toyota Assistance Centre at 180042500001 or 08066293001 and get on-site assistance through their insurance arm which will be there at the incident site from 8:30 ...

A 50-year-old man was burnedto death in a fire mishap in Ved Vihar Colony of Loni town, the officials said on Sunday.

Mumbai witnessed more than 84,000 fire incidents in the last 10 years leading to death of over 600 people, the Shiv Sena claimed Wednesday and questioned the state administration's preparedness to handle such mishaps.

There have been over 49,000 incidents of fire in Mumbai in the last one decade, killing more than 600 people, the Maharashtra government said today. Minister of State for Urban Development Ranjit Patil said in the state Assembly that a total of 49,391 fire mishaps were reported in the megapolis between 2008 and 2018.