The death toll in Wednesday's fire tragedy in Kolkata has risen to 20. One of the injured admitted at the NRS medical college died on Friday morning. ...
03:23 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Friday after condoling the death of sitting member Mukesh Gadhvi. Gadhvi, a first term Congress member from Banaskantha in Gujarat, breathed his last in Ahmedabad this morning. He was 50. ...
02:20 PM, Mar 01, 2013
The recent deadly blaze at the Surya Sen market with 19 casualties is not the first fire tragedy in Kolkata. But no lessons seem to have been learnt. ...
08:39 AM, Mar 01, 2013
At least 20 people died in the Kolkata fire tragedy on Wednesday and a political blame game between the Trinamool Congress and the Left ensued. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata banerjee said people should be responsible for their own safety. ...
08:59 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Screams of people on fire broke the silence of the night in the congested Surya Sen Market complex in the city where a fire left labourers and shopkeepers dead. Locals said they were alerted to the fire by shouts of the victims sleeping inside the complex. ...
03:35 PM, Feb 27, 2013
A fire broke out early on Wednesday morning in a tightly packed market place in Kolkata. The death toll stands at 18 and the injured have been admitted to the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital. ...
12:31 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Thirteen months after the deadly AMRI hospital fire tragedy in Kolkata that killed more than 90 people, the trial of the case has still not begun. Victims' families are demanding the case be fast-tracked and have also written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for justice. ...
07:19 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Kolkata: A major fire broke out at the Hatibagan hardware market in Kolkata early on Thursday morning. Thirty fire engines have been rushed to the spot and efforts are on to douse the flames. No injuries have been reported so far but several shops have been gutted. Shops selling meat, fish, fruits and ghee in the sprawling market have been affected, fire brigade officials said. Fire Minister Javed Khan claims...
07:57 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Calcutta High Court is expected to give its verdict on the bail plea of 5 directors of the AMRI hospital on Friday. A total of 9 directors and four employees were arrested in connection with the fire that claimed over 90 lives. Up until now, only one of them - Dr Moni Chetri, in whose name the hospital's licence was given - has been granted bail, on...
09:19 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Kolkata: At least 70 shanties were gutted in a major fire at Kaliakapur on the EM Bypass in the eastern part of the city this evening, creating panic among the locals. Fifteen fire tenders are fighting the blaze at present which is spreading fast fanned by strong wind, fire brigade officials said. The state's disaster management minister, Javed Khan, said that there was no report of any casualty or injury...
08:09 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: A fire broke out at Apeejay House at Park Street in Kolkata on Sunday. Sources said that ten fire engines were brought to the spot to control the blaze. However, the cause of the fire is not yet known. The incident took place on the 9th floor of the Apeejay House. One person is reported to be injured in the incident while trying to break the glass window....
01:20 PM, Jan 01, 2012
New Delhi: The police custody of six directors of Kolkata's AMRI hospital ends on Friday. They are likely to be produced in court over the fire tragedy at the AMRI hospital that left several dead. Their custody was extended for three more days on December 20. A case of negligence among others was filed against them after a fire in the hospital claimed over 90 lives on December 9. The...
08:20 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Kolkata: The six directors of the AMRI hospital, where a major fire killed at least 91 people, were on Tuesday sent to police custody for further three more days by a Kolkata court. They were on December 10 sent to a police custody till December 20. A case of negligence among others was filed against them after a fire in the hospital claimed 91 lives on December 9. The AMRI...
07:38 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Kolkata: Two more senior officials of the AMRI Hospital in south Kolkata were arrested on Tuesday and remanded in 10-day police custody over the fire tragedy that left 93 people dead. This has taken the total number of arrests to nine. Sanjeev Pal, the maintenance manager of AMRI Hospital, had issued an undertaking to the government to remove from the hospital's basement all hazardous substances by October. On the basis...
08:49 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: Two more officials of south Kolkata's AMRI Hospital have been arrested over Friday's fire tragedy that left 91 people dead. S Upadhay, senior vice-president and the hospital safety committee chairman and Sanjiv Pal, Administrative Officer, of the hospital were arrested on Tuesday, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Damayanti Sen said. The two officials would be produced before a city court later in the day, he said. Nine persons...
10:18 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Kolkata: Eighty three bodies in 13 hours 50 minutes - it was a marathon autopsy session. Fifty seven-year-old Dr Bishwanath Kahali of the SSKM hospital worked tirelessly through Friday night conducting autopsies on the victims of the AMRI fire - one of country's worst hospital fire tragedies. Even as bodies lined up before him, Dr Kahali said he had to keep going and that he tried not to let his...
09:59 PM, Dec 11, 2011
Kolkata: Forensic experts on Sunday could not collect evidence at the AMRI Hospital, where more than 90 persons lost their lives after inhaling toxic fumes from a devastating fire on Friday, as the basement where the fire started was still under several feet of water. As the basement is still flooded, forensic experts could not go inside to collect evidence to ascertain the cause of the fire and what materials...
07:19 PM, Dec 11, 2011
Kolkata: A West Bengal police constable and a female patient, rescued from the fire-ravaged AMRI Hospital in Dhakuria, died on Sunday taking the toll in Friday's inferno to 93. Constable Babulal Bhattacharya died at the AMRI Salt Lake Hospital where he was shifted from Dhakuria after the fire. Bhattacharya, a resident of Sonarpur in South 24-Parganas district, was admitted to AMRI, Dhakuria with heart problems. The other casualty was that...
06:29 PM, Dec 11, 2011
Kolkata: The toll in the Friday's fire at the private AMRI hospital rose to 92 on Sunday with the death of one more patient at its Salt Lake facility. Hospital sources said Babulal Bhattacharya, admitted with heart problems at the AMRI Dhakuria hospital, was shifted to Salt Lake facility after the fire. He expired in the early hours on Sunday, they said. Bhattacharya, a resident of Sonarpur in South 24-Parganas,...
12:40 PM, Dec 11, 2011
