There were 88 guests in 42 rooms of the six-storey budget hotel, located in Mechhua in the congested Burrabazar area, when ...

West Bengal CM Banerjee vows to punish those responsible for hotel fire tragedy, sets up special monitoring committees.

Banerjee reached the Mechhua Falpatti area of Burrabazar on her way back from Digha and said that special committees ...

In spite of a number of awareness programmes conducted over the years, by the mission and other voluntary organisations prior ...

Adhikari claimed that the BJP leaders, including councillor Sajal Ghosh and Vijay Ojha, provided assistance to the victims' ...

Fire tenders and a forensic team reached the hotel near Falpatti Machhua in Kolkata, where 14 people died and several were injured after a fire broke out last night. Fire and Emergency Services DG ...

"It was a major fire incident... such incidents keep happening there again and again. Especially the Burra Bazar area has been turned into 'Laksha Griha'," he said, referring to the combustible house ...