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Hours after deadly fire killed 21 in Delhi BnB, owner filed to renew expired licence

India, June 5 -- The devastating blaze in an illegal bed-and-breakfast in south Delhi's Hauz Rani that killed 21 people and injured 21 more began in the kitchen of the restaurant on the ground floor, ... Read More


Hours after deadly fire killed 21 in Delhi B&B, owner filed to renew expired licence

India, June 5 -- The devastating blaze in an illegal bed-and-breakfast in south Delhi's Hauz Rani that killed 21 people and injured 21 more began in the kitchen of the restaurant on the ground floor, ... Read More


Delhi did not learn lessons from 2019 hotel fire that killed 17 people

India, June 5 -- Six years before the Hauz Rani incident, a similar fire at Hotel Arpit Palace in Karol Bagh claimed the lives of 17 people, had then prompted authorities to introduce strict rules gov... Read More


Dodgy licences, unauthorised expansion among violations to surface after Delhi fire

India, June 4 -- The fire that killed at least 21 people at a Hauz Rani bed-and-breakfast on Wednesday has exposed a web of violations that investigators, officials and locals said appeared to have ef... Read More


No building plan, fire safetyNOC among raft of violations

New Delhi, June 4 -- The fire that killed at least 21 people at a Hauz Rani bed-and-breakfast on Wednesday has exposed a web of violations that investigators, officials and locals said appeared to hav... Read More


Delhi building that collapsed near Saket metro had two new floors added recently: MCD report

India, June 3 -- An official Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) report of the building collapse at Saidulajab which claimed six lives, released on Tuesday, stated that the building had been first co... Read More


Hauz Khas also joins growing list of areas reporting contaminated water

New Delhi, June 3 -- Hauz Khas in south Delhi has joined a growing list of areas affected by the ongoing water supply crisis in the Capital that have started reporting contaminated supply, with reside... Read More


Court deadlines, repeated warnings: 6 years on, Delhi's building safety audits remain far from complete

India, June 2 -- The collapse of a building in Saidulajab that killed six people on Saturday has once again exposed Delhi's long-running struggle to ensure structural safety in a city where millions l... Read More


Power outage at Delhi's Sonia Vihar water treatment plant triggers fresh crisis

India, June 2 -- Fresh complaints over water shortages have started coming in from residents in parts of northeast, south and east Delhi that receive water from the Sonia Vihar water treatment plant (... Read More


Outage at Sonia Vihar WTP adds to water crisis

New Delhi, June 2 -- Fresh complaints over water shortages have started coming in from residents in parts of northeast, south and east Delhi that receive water from the Sonia Vihar water treatment pla... Read More