The Criminal Investigation Department of West Bengal police has arrested three people in connection with the hooch tragedy earlier this month that left at least 171 dead in South 24 Parganas district.

A major fire that broke out at a slipper manufacturing unit in the city's Tiljala area couldn't be controlled till early this morning, officials said.

No casualties or injuries were reported after th

It has been a horrifying few days for West Bengal. A fire in a Kolkata hospital claimed 93 lives on December 8 and now, one of India's worst hooch tragedies is unfolding in the state.

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Lure of more money leads liquor manufacturers to take to setting up spurious liquor distilleries, with the administration as well as politicians turning a blind eye - till a tragedy like the liquor de

Two senior officials of the AMRI Hospital were arrested today in connection with Friday's fire in the facility that left 93 people dead.

S Upadhay, senior vice-president and the hospital safety comm

Two senior officials of the AMRI Hospital were arrested and sent to police custody while six of its security guards were interrogated over the Friday morning fire tragedy, which killed 93 people, poli

A doctor with the city's AMRI Hospital where a fire claimed 93 lives, on Monday recounted the horror and said he along with three nurses saved eight patients from the suffocating fumes of the Friday m

Three days after a blaze in the city's AMRI hospital killed 93 people, a West Bengal government team on Monday inspected the institution's basement to check possible radiation from machines and other

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

Two days after the massive fire at the AMRI Hospital that killed 93 persons, the exact cause of the inferno remained unknown today as forensic experts struggled to get evidence.

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