At least 43 people, mostly labourers, died in their sleep when a fire raged through a handbag-manufacturing factory in a congested locality of Delhi in India this morning, police say. =

At least 300 vehicles are destroyed in a massive fire at a parking lot near the Aero India venue in Bengaluru’s Yelahanka Air Force Station.

Seventeen people, including ten women and two children, were killed and 30 injured as a major fire ripped through a factory in north Delhi of India last night.

Police in India detain five people in connection with an explosion and fire at a Hindu temple in Kerala that killed more than 100 people.