Fire breaks out at BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad's official residence in Delhi
New Delhi (PTI): A fire broke out at the official residence of BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Mother Teresa Crescent Marg here on Wednesday morning, an official of the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said.
There were no casualties in the incident. It was not immediately known if the Patna Sahib MP was home at the time of the incident.
A call regarding the fire at Prasad's residence was received around 8.05 am. The fire broke out in some furniture kept in one of the rooms of the house, the DFS official said.
Three fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the blaze was brought under control by 8.35 am. No one was injured in the incident, he said.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
Delhi Police's Forensics Team was also at the spot.
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West Bengal: Cold conditions likely to abate from weekend
Kolkata (PTI): Cold conditions are likely to abate in West Bengal from this weekend, with an increase in the minimum temperatures across all districts by two to three notches, the IMD said on Wednesday.
Dry weather is likely to prevail in the state with the possibility of fog during morning hours over the next five days, it said.
Dense fog is likely in the sub-Himalayan districts of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar on some days, while shallow to moderate fog will occur in other places of the state, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
It said that cold conditions are likely to abate across the state from Sunday, with the possibility of an increase in minimum temperatures by two to three degrees Celsius, the Met said.
The upper reaches of Darjeeling were the coldest place in the state on Wednesday morning at 3 degrees Celsius, while the hill town recorded a minimum temperature of 4.8 degrees Celsius, it said.
Sriniketan was the coldest place in the state's plains, recording 8.7 degrees Celsius, closely followed by Cooch Behar and Bankura, both places recording 8.9 degrees Celsius, the IMD data said.
The other places that recorded significantly low temperatures were Jalpaiguri (9.6), Kalyani (9.8), Baharampur (10.2) and Medinipur (11.1).
Kolkata recorded a minimum temperature of 13.7 degrees Celsius, the IMD said.
