New Delhi: Around three to four residential buildings in the city report blazes every day on average, according to Delhi Fire Services data. Between April 2025 and March 2026, the department received 1,318 such calls.Comparative data shows an increase in overall fire-related calls in 2026. Between Jan 1 and April 15 this year, a total…
New Delhi: When a fire breaks out in a residential complex, your chance of survival is dictated by a narrow window of time during which prompt, calculated action outweighs panic. Fire safety experts say one’s ability to act with clarity and urgency while maintaining a calm and focused mindset is the most critical factor in…
New Delhi: The city is likely to receive rain accompanied by gusty winds up to 70 kmph on Monday and Tuesday.The maximum temperature on Sunday was recorded at 36.6 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal. It was 38.6 degrees Celsius a day earlier.According to India Meteorological Department, Safdarjung, which is the city’s base station, logged…
New Delhi: Sunday’s pre-dawn blaze triggered a high-stakes rescue operation that pushed emergency services to their limits. Firefighters waged a gruelling five-hour battle against the flames, executing a series of daring manoeuvres through balconies and windows, in the process evacuating 17 to 18 residents. Witnesses credited the coordinated efforts of more than 70 responders for…
New Delhi: While nine lives were lost in the inferno, a few residents of the building were saved — some were providentially away from home, two sisters jumped onto mattresses placed for them on the ground, and a handful were saved in the nick of time from the burning structure.Archit, a 27-year-old businessman, woke up…
TNNTNNNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed deep grief over the fire in a residential building in Vivek Vihar, Shahdara, which caused nine deaths.He announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) to the next of kin of each deceased person and Rs 50,000 to those…
Kuki students’ organisation stage a protest at Jantar Mantar, marking three years of the outbreak of ethnic violence in Manipur New Delhi: In the last week of April 2023, Nenghoikim thought she was simply heading home to Churachandpur after work in Imphal. The schoolteacher remembers the roads feeling tense and unfamiliar. A drive that usually…
New Delhi: When a residential building in Vivek Vihar turned into a furnace, the difference between life and death rested on split-second acts of bravery.Trapped between intimidating walls of flames and jammed exits, the residents’ narrow path to survival was shaped by a group of bravehearts who refused to succumb to fire or panic. Even…
The backside of four storey building in Vivek Vihar, Shahdara, where a fire broke out early Sunday morning. (Photo: Anushka Kogta) NEW DELHI: Protective iron grills sealing one side and a locked terrace cutting off the only escape turned a four-storey building in Delhi’s Vivek Vihar into a death trap as a pre-dawn fire tore…
NEW DELHI: Delhi is set for another major Metro push, with CM Rekha Gupta likely to announce phase V (b), a 97-km expansion with seven corridors and 65 stations aimed at taking the Metro network deeper into outer city areas.The new lines will connect Najafgarh to Nangloi, Central Secretariat to Kishangarh, and extend the network…
