The early hours of March 13 saw chaos unfold in Jaipur as a massive fire erupted in a fan belt warehouse near Road No. 12 in the Murlipura police station area. The blaze, first discovered by Circle Inspector Virendra Kuril while on night patrol, has since become a dramatic example of rapid...
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It was in the early hours before dawn that chaos gripped a quiet suburb northeast of New Delhi—a neighborhood brimming with the anonymous ambitions of India’s millions of migrant workers—when a four-storey residential building, still under construction, collapsed with a violence so abrupt, it...
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