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Six injured in fire caused by leak in cooking gas cylinder

A fire due to a leak in cooking gas cylinder in Uttar Pradesh left six persons seriously injured, police said on Monday. The incident occurred last evening when Rukmani was preparing food at home in Gosgharh village area in Shamli district, police said. The six people injured were rushed to a hospital in serious condition, …

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November 6, 2017

Cooking gas, jet fuel prices hiked

Cooking gas (LPG) price was hiked by Rs 4.50 per cylinder, the 19th increase in rates since July 2016 when the government decided to eliminate subsidy on it by raising prices every month. Also, jet fuel or ATF price was increased by 2 per cent on firming international rates, the fourth straight increase in rates …

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November 1, 2017

Three dead as LPG cylinder explodes in Bengaluru house

At least three people were killed in a gas cylinder blast that shattered a residential building in the city’s southern suburb early on Monday, a police official said. “An LPG cylinder exploded on the ground floor of a two-storeyed building sometime between 6 and 7 a.m. in Ejipura area. The building collapsed,” an official from …

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October 16, 2017

Same sick story

The leak in a cylinder of toxic gas that affected over 450 girls from two schools on the outskirts of the Capital is another episode in the lament about myopic planning, uncontrolled urban expansion and the customary indifference to safety. Mercifully there was no repeat of the tragedy in Bhopal, with which some fanciful parallels …

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May 8, 2017