The top US nuclear research lab was ordered to stay closed on Tuesday after flames reached it and the local town began evacuating, though all high-risk materials were safe, officials said on Monday.

A major fire broke out in the Rajasthan government’s secretariat building here on Saturday morning, police said. No casualty was reported, but many documents and computers were charred.

Two labourers were killed and two received multiple burns in a major fire that broke out in a warehouse of a paint agency here, police said on Friday. The incident occurred late on Thursday at Vinni Paints located in Purania locality here.

It seems like a disaster waiting to happen with nearly 1,500 schools in the national capital lacking fire safety clearance.

"Till now we have issued fire safety certificates to 60 per cent of the sch

Three people were killed and one suffered serious injuries when a major fire broke out on Wednesday morning in the basement of Bombay House, the headquarters of the Tata Group, an official said.

Mumbai: A massive fire broke out in an oil storage depot of the public sector Indian Oil Corporation Limited in Navi Mumbai early on Tuesday, police said.

The fire alert was received by the police ar

Mumbai: A huge fire broke out in an oil storage depot of the public sector Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) in Navi Mumbai early on Tuesday. The fire was brought under control after nearly eight

Manila: Fifteen people were killed on Sunday when a fire razed a budget hotel in a northern Philippine city, a provincial police chief said.

Senior Superintendent Mao Aplasca said rescuers had recove

Muzaffarnagar: A 27-year-old man was charred to death and his wife sustained severe burn injuries when the car in which they were travelling caught fire on the Delhi-Dehradun national highway near Kha

Tens of thousands of people laid flowers Sunday at the blackened shell of a Shanghai high-rise apartment where a raging fire left 58 dead, as the city marked the peak of the traditional mourning perio