Mumbai Chief Fire Officer

Some 3,500 people adjacent to a mall in Mumbai were evacuated after a fire broke out at the shopping complex, officials said today. The fire broke out late on Thursday night and efforts to douse the flames went on till this morning.

Fourteen people including 11 women, most of them in their 20s and early 30s, died of suffocation and several others injured in a huge fire that started from a restaurant in Mumbai's Kamala Mills compound late on Thursday night, and spread rapidly to nearby restaurants and offices as well. The loss of lives has sparked a massive outrage. Chief Minis...

Mumbai's fire brigade is set to get its tallest ladder, which can reach as high as 30 floors, by the end of this month, thanks to the efforts of late Chief Fire Officer Sunil Nesarikar, who had visited Finland days before the Kalbadevi blaze to test the equipment

Mumbai's Fire Brigade Chief Sunil Nesrikar has died of multiple organ failure at the National Burns Centre in Airoli, Navi Mumbai.

Deputy chief fire officer Sudhir Amin, who had suffered 80 per cent burn injuries during last week's fire-fighting operation at a building in south Mumbai, on thursday died.

One worker was killed and two others injured in an accident at a shipbuilding centre in Visakhapatnam where India is building its first class of three nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. The incident took place when the pressure of the hydraulic tank of the Arihant class submarine was being tested and the tank's lid fell on the workers a...

Two officers who were missing since the fire on board submarine INS Sindhuratna on Wednesday have died, the navy today confirmed. Their bodies were found after the submarine was brought back to the Mumbai coast this morning. Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi resigned yesterday taking moral responsibility for accidents on his watch.

"There were 15 sailors, six married; three officers, two of them married; no one rescued so far", said the Navy's chief on Wednesday evening about the 18 men who were on board India's front line submarine, the INS Sindhurakshak, when it sank after an explosion and fire at dawn today.

The team of seven, who fought to save the national flag atop Mantralaya while the building burned on Thursday even as others rushed out, have suddenly become poster boys that political parties want to cash in on. The employees of Mantralaya - Rajendra Kanhade, Deepak Adsul, Ganesh Munj, Premji Rot, Suresh Baria, Vishal Rane and Prasad Kendre - who...

Some 3,500 people adjacent to a mall in Mumbai were evacuated after a fire broke out at the shopping complex, officials said today. The fire broke out late on Thursday night and efforts to douse the flames went on till this morning.

Fourteen people including 11 women, most of them in their 20s and early 30s, died of suffocation and several others injured in a huge fire that started from a restaurant in Mumbai's Kamala Mills compound late on Thursday night, and spread rapidly to nearby restaurants and offices as well. The loss of lives has sparked a massive outrage. Chief Minis...

Mumbai's fire brigade is set to get its tallest ladder, which can reach as high as 30 floors, by the end of this month, thanks to the efforts of late Chief Fire Officer Sunil Nesarikar, who had visited Finland days before the Kalbadevi blaze to test the equipment

Mumbai's Fire Brigade Chief Sunil Nesrikar has died of multiple organ failure at the National Burns Centre in Airoli, Navi Mumbai.

Deputy chief fire officer Sudhir Amin, who had suffered 80 per cent burn injuries during last week's fire-fighting operation at a building in south Mumbai, on thursday died.

One worker was killed and two others injured in an accident at a shipbuilding centre in Visakhapatnam where India is building its first class of three nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. The incident took place when the pressure of the hydraulic tank of the Arihant class submarine was being tested and the tank's lid fell on the workers a...

Two officers who were missing since the fire on board submarine INS Sindhuratna on Wednesday have died, the navy today confirmed. Their bodies were found after the submarine was brought back to the Mumbai coast this morning. Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi resigned yesterday taking moral responsibility for accidents on his watch.

"There were 15 sailors, six married; three officers, two of them married; no one rescued so far", said the Navy's chief on Wednesday evening about the 18 men who were on board India's front line submarine, the INS Sindhurakshak, when it sank after an explosion and fire at dawn today.

The team of seven, who fought to save the national flag atop Mantralaya while the building burned on Thursday even as others rushed out, have suddenly become poster boys that political parties want to cash in on. The employees of Mantralaya - Rajendra Kanhade, Deepak Adsul, Ganesh Munj, Premji Rot, Suresh Baria, Vishal Rane and Prasad Kendre - who...