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Thursday, July 31, 2025
TopicDelhi fire service

Topic: Delhi fire service

Delhi Fire Service received ‘100 fire-related calls’ between 6 pm and 10:45 pm on Diwali

Supreme Court ban on firecrackers violated in several areas of national capital.

It’s time to survey — not mosques, but fire-trap buildings. Delhi’s Mundka tragedy shows

It's ironic that the State should storm into action, arm itself with bulldozers, and bring down people's homes but does not even inspect buildings that could be a fire hazard.

Trail of negligence runs long but for Mundka neighbours ‘death trap’ owner Lakra no ‘villain’

It is not known whether Manish Lakra called police or fire department after his escape from burning building, but he went on the run from Friday evening until he was nabbed Sunday.

How brave crane operators battled smoke & flames to save 50 women from deadly Mundka fire

Well before fire tenders arrived, cousins Dayanand and Anil Tiwari risked their own lives to save people trapped in burning Delhi building, using just their crane and quick thinking.

Gold bangle, nail paint, purple suit she wore that day — how bodies of 8 killed in Mundka fire were identified

While families of eight victims of the Mundka fire have identified the bodies of their loved ones, others have to wait for analysis of DNA samples.

Arrested Mundka building owner, family escaped fire by jumping on roof of adjacent building, say police

Following the arrest of Manish Lakra, the owner of a building in Mundka where a fire claimed 27 lives, Delhi police are now on the lookout for his family.

Fire breaks out in East Delhi, emergency services rescue 40 people

Residents in the building rushed to the terrace, making it easier for fire fighters to rescue them and helping avert another major fire tragedy in Delhi.

9 killed after fire breaks out in Delhi’s Kirari area

The incident comes less than a month after 43 people were killed in a fire in a four-storey building in north Delhi's congested Anaj Mandi area.

Delhi hotel, where 17 died in fire, was a guest house & not allowed to run kitchens

Preliminary findings of fire department suggests lapses on part of its officials to highlight violation of norms by Karol Bagh hotel in last inspection in 2017.

On Camera

Modi’s ‘Make in India’—a case study in what happens when strategy is replaced by storytelling

From day one, Make in India was driven by optics than economics. There were global summits, slick visuals, and media blitzes. But the real machinery never showed up.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.