The Blaze News

At least 80 shops were gutted after a major fire broke out in the city`s Chandni Chowk area on Monday night, officials said on Tuesday.

The GV Mall had at least 30 shops, of which none could be saved.

A fire broke out on Wednesday in Antriksh Bhawan here, following which 17 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, officials said.

A fire broke out on Friday morning in the accounts branch of Rashtrapati Bhavan but it was doused within minutes.

A fire broke out in the wee hours on Wednesday in Moti Bazar area of Chandni Chowk, destroying many shops.

There were nearly 15 guests staying in Hotel Bindal at the time of the mishap.

The blaze was noticed in Hotel Bindal at around 3.30 am when the victims were fast asleep.

An explosion was heard at Vetrivel Explosives near Tiruchirappalli on Thursday morning.

The death toll in the fire tragedy at a Bangladeshi factory on Monday climbed to 32 after more bodies were retrieved from under the debris and authorities called in a team of Army to join the rescue operation.

The death toll from a fire in northern France last month, sparked by birthday cake candles, rose to 14 on Thursday after a young woman died in a Paris hospital, a family lawyer said.

California Governor Jerry Brown declared the state of emergency for San Bernardino County where the blaze, which has been named the Blue Cut fire, was quickly growing.

France mobilised 1,500 firefighters on Wednesday to tackle wildfires in countryside north of Marseille that have gutted buildings and forced more than 1,000 people to flee their homes.

More than 3,000 holidaymakers were evacuated after a blaze threatened to spread across four campsites in the south of France, as a fireman died on his way to the scene, officials said.

Tens of thousands of Tibetan refugees live in Indian settlements.

A 17-year-old ragpicker was allegedly murdered by three persons in Pune after setting him afire.

Australia experienced its fifth hottest year on record in 2015, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, which has been keeping statistics since 1910.

A man suspected of setting a public bus on fire in northern China, burning 17 people to death, had told friends he planned violence, reports said on Wednesday, citing social media postings in which he agonised over unpaid debts.

Twitter users have slammed a couple who took a selfie with the burning Dubai hotel in the background and posted it on social media.

A 40-year-old woman on Thursday succumbed to injuries here after she was set on fire allegedly by her alcoholic husband for not cooking mutton curry properly four days ago, police said.

Naxals on Tuesday set on fire at least 20 vehicles and machines engaged in mining work in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, police said.