The owner and manager of Rituraj Hotel in Kolkata have been arrested following a devastating fire that killed 14 people. West ...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday visited the Burrabazar area in central Kolkata to inspect a ...

Police on Thursday arrested the owner and manager of Rituraj Hotel, two days after a devastating fire engulfed the central Kolkata property, leaving 14 people dead. Firefighters had recovered 13 ...

What started as a minor blaze inside a virtual tinderbox of a hotel — operating without even basic firefighting provisions — ...

One of the hotel managers, Gaurav, has been detained. "Deaths were due to effects of asphyxia due to inhalation of carbon soot and thermal burn injuries... Two employees jumped off, one of them, Manoj ...

Brazen disregard for mandatory firefighting measures in certain commercial establishments and persisting lacunae from authorities concerned in maintaining the necessary safety checks seems to have led ...

Kolkata has a history of negligence-prompted major fire mishaps in important buildings, which have claimed several lives, and ...

What started as a minor blaze inside a virtual tinderbox of a hotel - operating without even basic firefighting provisions - ...

A fire tore through a hotel in the city of Kolkata in eastern India, killing at least 14 people, police said Wednesday.

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire tore through a hotel in the city of Kolkata in eastern India, killing at least 14 people, police said Wednesday.

The massive fire at a hotel in Burrabazar, located in the city’s central business district, has claimed 14 lives and left several others critically injured. However, this is not the first time the ...

Many were suspected to be trapped inside the hotel till late on Tuesday. At least one person died when he jumped off the ...