Brazen disregard for mandatory firefighting measures in certain commercial establishments and persisting lacunae from authorities concerned in maintaining the necessary safety checks seems to have led ...

"It was a major fire incident... such incidents keep happening there again and again. Especially the Burra Bazar area has been turned into 'Laksha Griha'," he said, referring to the combustible house ...

A massive fire that tore through a budget hotel in Kolkata on Tuesday night claimed at least 14 lives and left 13 injured.