Municipal Commissioner M Thenarasan told reporters that Surat’s Deputy Chief Fire Officer S.K. Acharya and Fire Officer Kirti Modh were suspended with immediate effect on charges of not taking action against the Takshashila Arcade where Friday’s blaze... read more

Civic body officials say notices have been served to owners of 400 institute buildings for installation of fire safety systems read more

The department has identified five coaching centres so far where entry\/exit points and staircases are blocked, electrical wires are loosely hanging in the open, and there is a lack of firefighting equipment. read more

Jaipur chief fire officer Jagdish Phulwaria said the Jaipur Municipal Corporation had conducted a safety audit of such coaching institutes in 2018, of which 100 were issued notices for flouting fire safety norms. read more

Police said Butani was present at the institute when the fire broke out, possibly because of a short-circuit in the basement of the building, and engulfed the only wooden staircase leading to the third and fourth floors. read more

It was an extraordinary decision which Ketan Jorawadia took and save the lives of over ten students who were trapped in Takshashila Arcade’s razing fire here on Friday. read more

Blaze incident in Gujarat’s Surat sets alarm bells ringing in Lucknow read more

According to Urmi, the classes are run at the fine arts institute, where aspiring architects and fine arts students undergo coaching for competitive exams like NATA. read more

There were at least 60 students in four different coaching centres at Taxshila Arcade in Gujarat’s Surat when the fire broke out there around 4 pm on Friday. read more

In videos posted on social media, around ten people could be seen jumping out in an attempt to escape the blaze. Some of them were already ablaze as they jumped out of the top floor. read more

Chief judicial magistrate of Surat, B H Kapadia, issued summons to Gandhi, directing him to be present before the court on June 7. read more

Laljibhai Patel, chairman of Dharmanandan Diamonds Pvt Ltd, had hit the headlines in 2015 when he bought Modi’s much- famed pinstripe suit for Rs 4.31 crore in a public auction. read more

The 40-year-old Narayan Sai was arrested from Pipli near Haryana’s Kurukshetra in December 2013 after two sisters from Surat filed rape complaints against him and his father Asaram in October that year. read more

BJP’s CR Patil, the sitting Navsari MP, faces challenge from the Congress and the BSP in this year’s Lok Sabha elections. read more

Surat election results 2019: The BJP has been winning the Surat Lok Sabha seat since 1989. Darshana Jardosh is the two-time sitting MP from Surat seat. read more