• Newsletters
  • Gift Membership
Logo Logo
Take Scroll With You Download the app to read our award-winning journalism on the go and stay up-to-date with our notifications.
Get the app Get the app
ANDROID iOS
  • Home
  • Common Ground
  • The India Fix
  • Eco India
  • The Latest
  • The Reel
  • Magazine
  • Video
  • Trending
    • A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
    • This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
    • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
    • A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
    • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
    • How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
    • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
    • What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
    • No foul play in death of Sushant Singh Rajput’s former manager: Police tell Bombay HC
    • Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
    • Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
    • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
  • Sections
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • India
    • World
    • Film and TV
    • Music
    • Books and Ideas
    • Business and Economy
    • Science and Technology
    • In Pictures
    • Announcements
    • Bookshop
    • The Field
    • Pulse
    • Elections 2024

Ad
OTHERS ARE

Reading icon icon

  • A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
    1

    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch

  • This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
    2

    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings

  • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
    3

    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

  • A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym
    4

    A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
    5

    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
    6

    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design

  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
    7

    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

  • What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
    8

    What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken

  • No foul play in death of Sushant Singh Rajput’s former manager: Police tell Bombay HC
    9

    No foul play in death of Sushant Singh Rajput’s former manager: Police tell Bombay HC

  • Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
    10

    Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare

Around the Web

Watch: Hoarding on LIC building in Chennai’s Anna Salai catches fire, no casualties reported

The cause of the fire was suspected to be an electrical short-circuit in the LED lights of the hoarding.

Scroll Staff
Apr 03, 2023 · 02:35 pm
Read in App

Fire on the LIC Building in Chennai. This LIC Building was the tallest building in India when it was completed in 1959. Video @SIVARAMAN74 pic.twitter.com/TkiT2R1iI2

— Sangeetha Kandavel (@sang1983) April 2, 2023

FIRE ON THE TERRACE OF CHENNAI'S ICONIC 14 FLOOR  LIC BUILDING 

FIRE FIGHTERS EXTINGUISH IN FIVE MINUTES

ELECTRICAL SHORT CIRCUIT ON THE NAME BOARD SUSPECTED @ndtv pic.twitter.com/vA0jOlQwyU

— J Sam Daniel Stalin (@jsamdaniel) April 2, 2023

FIRE IN LIC BULIDING TODAY in Chennai pic.twitter.com/RDNoAmfyyh

— Srikantan (@Srikantan1955) April 3, 2023

Fire @ #Chennai #lic building pic.twitter.com/PiA2KRJwV7

— SANKARANARAYANAN SUDALAI (@SHANKARtcr) April 2, 2023

Seeing heavy smoke and fire from the top of the LIC building. What’s going on? pic.twitter.com/svICZUYCZh

— Vaishali (@vaishjai) April 2, 2023

Tamil Nadu | Fire breaks out on the top floor of the LIC building in Chennai. Fire tenders on the spot. pic.twitter.com/Ur5jaAA0vZ

— ANI (@ANI) April 2, 2023
We welcome your comments at letters@scroll.in.
  • Fire
  • Chennai
Get the app Get the app
ANDROID iOS

Related

Manipur: Hundreds of women march with fire torches to protest against ongoing violence in the state

Manipur: Hundreds of women march with fire torches to protest against ongoing violence in the state

Trending

  1. A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch

    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch

  2. This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings

    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings

  3. For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

  4. A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym

    A beginner’s guide to weight-lifting in the gym

  5. A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

Ad