As many as 3026 buildings in Mumbai have been issued notices for flouting fire safety norms by the Mumbai Fire Brigade department. A total of 6142 buildings were audited by the department from 2015 to October 2018. If the buildings fail to comply with the notice within a stipulated time, they will be termed as "unsafe buildings", the department said.

At least two persons have been killed and 24 others injured in an explosion at a factory in China's Northeast Jilin province, the local government said Saturday. The explosion occured at Jiangcheng Machinery Company based in a village in Dongfeng county on Friday, state-run China Daily reported. About 41 buildings were also damaged in the explosion.

The man who had set ablaze 18 vehicles at South Delhi's Madangir village area during the early hours of Tuesday has been arrested on Wednesday. As many as 18 vehicles, including cars and motorcycles, parked in a residential colony Madangir village were gutted after the 23-year-old-man, identified as Vijay Shukla, set them on fire.