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KOLKATA: Five city girls, who were marooned in a remote village at Rishikhola when the Teesta flash flood washed away the sole bamboo bridge connecting their homestay on a hilltop with the mainland, returned to their Kolkata homes on Friday. They were rescued by army and cops but had to trek 8kms along a forest, riverbed and broken roads to reach safety. They were escorted in a car to New Jalpaiguri.The...

MUMBAI: A two-feet long baby crocodile was found by a sanitation worker in a BMC-run swimming pool at Dadar at around 5.30am on Tuesday. The incident happened during the routine inspection of the Mahatma Gandhi Jaltaran Talao, which is an Olympic-sized swimming pool, just before it was scheduled to open for the day.The BMC issued a statement explaining that the baby crocodile had been rescued with the...

MUMBAI: Fire broke out in a 14 storey building in Girgaon at around 2.30 pm on Saturday. According to a BMC press release, the fire broke out in the duct of the Ganesh Krupa CHS in Sikka Nagar, Girgaon. No injuries were reported."The fire originated in the electrical wiring in the duct of the first floor. However, smoke from the fire spread to the upper floors logging the passageways and staircase of...

MUMBAI: Over 50 residents were rescued from various floors of a 12-storey building in Kurla-west after a fire broke out on Friday night.The incident took place in a Slum Rehabilitation Authority(SRA) building located opposite Kohinoor Hospital. According to BMC’s disaster management, the fire was confined to electrical wiring, scrap materials etc in the electrical duct from the ground to the 12th...

THANE: At least 20 people were rescued after a major fire erupted in a 12-storey building in Bhiwandi city in Thane district of Maharashtra on Saturday afternoon, officials said. No casualty was reported in the incident, an official said. The building with 48 flats filled with smoke after the blaze erupted at around 2.15 pm and residents rushed out, the official added. "At least 20 residents stranded on...

THANE: A 100-year-old woman was rescued after the slab of a ground-plus-one residential structure collapsed on Thursday afternoon in Mumbra in Maharashtra's Thane district, a civic official said. The incident took place at 1:10pm in Rana Nivas in Padlekar Wadi, Thane Municipal Corporation regional disaster management cell chief Avinash Sawant told PTI."There are four rooms each on the ground floor and...

MUMBAI: Seven people were trapped in an elevator in the Bombay High Court building on Monday, a fire brigade official said. The fire brigade received an alert about people being trapped in one of the elevators in the high court premises around 4.30 pm, he said. However, staff from the lift maintenance company managed to rescue all the seven people within 15-20 minutes, the official said.(With PTI...