Mumbai: Fire breaks out on set of TV serial 'Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin'
Mumbai, Mar 10: A major fire broke out on the set of TV serial "Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin" at Film City in suburban Goregaon here on Friday afternoon but there were no reports of anyone getting injured in the incident, civic officials said.
The TV show's production house said in a statement that "the members of the cast and crew" of the serial were safe.
The blaze was doused after six hours, around 10.30 pm, said an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
The fire started around 4.30 pm on the ground floor, in an area of 2,000 square feet, of the studio where the serial was being shot, he said, adding that it soon spread to other three adjacent sets.
Thick clouds of black smoke emanating from the studio could be seen from afar.
At least 12 fire engines, seven water jetties, one water tanker, three automatic turn-tables (AWTT), one quick response vehicle and other fire brigade vehicles were at the spot, the official said.
The fire brigade pegged the fire as level-3 with level-4 being the most serious.
In a statement, production house Cockcrow Entertainment Shaika Films said members of the serials cast and crew were safe.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
