Mantralaya Fire

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  Fire Breaks Out At Fourth Floor Of Maharashtra Secretariat, No Casualties

  A minor fire erupted on the fourth floor of Mantralaya, the Maharashtra government secretariat in South Mumbai, on Monday night, but no casualty was reported, Fire Brigade officials said.

• Mumbai Mantralaya fire: men who saved Tricolour left in the lurch

  Seven bravehearts who risked their lives to save the nation's pride -- the tricolour -- during the Mantralaya fire on June 21 2012, have been running from pillar to post for the reward promised to them soon after the incident.

• Renovated Mumbai Mantralaya floors to be ready in three months

  Exactly a year after the top four floors of the imposing Maharashtra secretariat building in Mumbai were gutted in a major fire, the state government said on Friday it would take another three months for the four floors to be ready for occupation.

• Mantralaya fire: Only ten per cent files reconstructed so far

  Only ten per cent of the files which were destroyed in the fire that gutted the top floors of the Mantralaya on June 21, 2012, have been reconstructed so far.

• Mantralaya fire: Forensic report rules out sabotage

  A forensic laboratory report on the recent fire at Mantralaya has stated that no external "combustible" articles were found from samples collected from the devastated building, while negating the sabotage angle.

• Rs 100 cr will be used to repair Mantralaya

  The PWD has submitted architect Raja Aederi's refurbishment plans for the secretariat building which includes costly fire-proof building materials and new equipment; cash for this will be taken from state exchequer

• Central Railways has taken no lessons from Mantralaya fire

  Despite government offices across the city pulling up their socks after the inferno that resulted in the death of 5 people at Mantralaya last week, it seems that Central Railway officials have still not woken up to the importance of fire safety.

• Cables gnawed by mice found after Mantralaya fire

  It's been five days since a massive fire raged through Mantralaya, devouring files and computers that came in its way, gutting four floors; five days since five lives were lost to the blaze, but the Democratic Front government is still searching for answers, as its officials sift through the debris.

• Mantralaya fire: Statements of 50 witnesses recorded

  The Mumbai police, investigating last week's major fire at Mantralaya, claimed on Monday to have made substantial progress in the probe and recorded statements of 50 witnesses in this connection so far.

• Data lost in Mantralaya fire can be retrieved, claims cyber expert

  In a ray of hope for the Maharashtra secretariat where a large number of computers were damaged in a fire last week, the data from the damaged hard disks can be retrieved through Magnetic Ferrous Microscope (MFM), a cyber forensic expert has claimed.

• Mantralaya resumes work after four days

  Four days after a major fire gutted four of its seven floors, work resumed in the Maharashtra state secretariat, Mantralaya, in Mumbai on Monday.

• Mantralaya flag heroes say govt has yet to call them

  The team of seven, who fought to save the national flag atop Mantralaya while the building burned on Thursday even as others rushed out, have suddenly become poster boys that political parties want to cash in on. The employees of Mantralaya - Rajendra Kanhade, Deepak Adsul, Ganesh Munj, Premji Rot, Suresh Baria, Vishal Rane and Prasad Kendre - who...

• Mantralaya fire: Maharashtra govt to re-construct damaged files in three steps

  As a part of efforts to re-construct all damaged files in wake of the devastating fire at the state secretariat, Maharashtra government has made three classifications to retrieve the documents.

• Mantralaya fire: Amid blame game, back to work tomorrow

  Public Works Department head Chhagan Bhujbal has stirred a hornet's nest. Livid with reports that his department was at fault for the poor upkeep and failure to maintain fire-fighting equipment, which exacerbated the fire at Mantralaya on Thursday, he has asked some uncomfortable questions of the general administration department (GAD), headed by C...

• Mantralaya fire in Mumbai: Major lapses in safety exposed already

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