Kolkata Fire Tragedy

It's an anniversary no one wants to observe. But there is no escaping the memories of December 9, 2011 when 93 patients at the AMRI hospital in south Kolkata were virtually gassed to death in their hospital beds. A fire in the basement sent noxious smoke surging through the air conditioning ducts. The building was centrally air conditioned and ther...

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted bail to AMRI Hospital director SK Todi, who was booked with 15 others in connection with the fire tragedy at the medical centre that claimed 94 lives last December.

Police today submitted the chargesheet under various penal laws, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder, against 16 people, accused of involvement in the AMRI Hospital fire tragedy which claimed 94 lives last year.

Two top Kolkata doctors have been arrested in connection with the fire tragedy at the AMRI hospital in the city. A pre-dawn blaze at the hospital on December 9 last year had left over 90 people dead. Most of them were patients who choked to death due to toxic smoke.

As West Bengal grapples with the hooch tragedy, the second major incident in less than a week after a major fire killed 91 in Kolkata, the police are now on the hunt for the alleged kingpin who supplied the spurious liquor that has now claimed the lives of over 150 people in the state's South 24 Parganas district.

Even as Visakhapatnam has emerged as the health hub of the north coastal Andhra and neighbouring Odisha and Chhattisgarh, fire safety arrangements continue to be poor at a majority of the hospitals in the city, ringing alarm bells for the patients and their families.

Middle-order batsman Manoj Tiwary, who guided India to a 34-run victory over the West Indies in the fifth and final one-dayer here today, dedicated his match-winning century to those who died in a Kolkata hospital fire on Friday.

The devastating fire at Kolkata's AMRI Hospital early Friday morning was one of the worst tragedies to have hit the city in recent times. But in those dark hours, there were a few heroes who gave a new lease of life to many people.

In a welcome surprise, industrialist Ratan Tata seems to have left behind his Singur face-off with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by backing her in wake of the fire tragedy at Kolkata's AMRI Hospital.

After the Stephen Court tragedy, residents of buildings around it are a worried lot as they suddenly realized they too lived in a death trap.

Sonali Singh and Mili Acharya have been roaming on the streets for long, photograph in hand. In the hope that someone can give them details about their missing brother Bidyut Acharya.

It's an anniversary no one wants to observe. But there is no escaping the memories of December 9, 2011 when 93 patients at the AMRI hospital in south Kolkata were virtually gassed to death in their hospital beds. A fire in the basement sent noxious smoke surging through the air conditioning ducts. The building was centrally air conditioned and ther...

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted bail to AMRI Hospital director SK Todi, who was booked with 15 others in connection with the fire tragedy at the medical centre that claimed 94 lives last December.

Police today submitted the chargesheet under various penal laws, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder, against 16 people, accused of involvement in the AMRI Hospital fire tragedy which claimed 94 lives last year.

Two top Kolkata doctors have been arrested in connection with the fire tragedy at the AMRI hospital in the city. A pre-dawn blaze at the hospital on December 9 last year had left over 90 people dead. Most of them were patients who choked to death due to toxic smoke.

As West Bengal grapples with the hooch tragedy, the second major incident in less than a week after a major fire killed 91 in Kolkata, the police are now on the hunt for the alleged kingpin who supplied the spurious liquor that has now claimed the lives of over 150 people in the state's South 24 Parganas district.

Even as Visakhapatnam has emerged as the health hub of the north coastal Andhra and neighbouring Odisha and Chhattisgarh, fire safety arrangements continue to be poor at a majority of the hospitals in the city, ringing alarm bells for the patients and their families.

Middle-order batsman Manoj Tiwary, who guided India to a 34-run victory over the West Indies in the fifth and final one-dayer here today, dedicated his match-winning century to those who died in a Kolkata hospital fire on Friday.

The devastating fire at Kolkata's AMRI Hospital early Friday morning was one of the worst tragedies to have hit the city in recent times. But in those dark hours, there were a few heroes who gave a new lease of life to many people.

In a welcome surprise, industrialist Ratan Tata seems to have left behind his Singur face-off with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by backing her in wake of the fire tragedy at Kolkata's AMRI Hospital.

After the Stephen Court tragedy, residents of buildings around it are a worried lot as they suddenly realized they too lived in a death trap.

Sonali Singh and Mili Acharya have been roaming on the streets for long, photograph in hand. In the hope that someone can give them details about their missing brother Bidyut Acharya.