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In this edition of 5 Live, watch India Today's reality check from across Delhi, Lucknow, and Mumbai that has exposed widespread fire safety violations, including blocked exits and missing equipment, days after Delhi's Malviya Nagar hotel fire that claimed 21 lives.
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00:00Hello and welcome. I'm Sauron Mehrotra Kapoor. Welcome to 5 Live.
00:03On the program, we have one point focus.
00:08It has happened several times in the past and it continues to happen again.
00:12Why are we not being able to get the fire safety mechanisms in place
00:19for hotels, for restaurants, for bed and breakfast, for commercial colonies,
00:25commercial buildings and even residential ones?
00:28How many fires before action is finally taken?
00:35Also to sort of show the government a bit of a reality check,
00:40our own team at India today went out looking at several hotels in the national capital
00:46and they are sitting ducks. They are sitting death traps.
00:51We did this reality check in Delhi, in Mumbai, in Lucknow as well.
00:56And today on the program, we make you aware.
01:00Aware of how to avoid these buildings, number one.
01:04And second, do your bit. Report them.
01:07Force your government.
01:09Get your MLAs, MPs and your municipal commissioners to look into the matter
01:14and take action because before that, you and I, everyone is a possible casualty.
01:20With that, let's take a look at what is making news on Top of 5.
01:30Despite doomsday predictions are from the opposition,
01:32the government continues to stay bullish about India's growth story.
01:35The centre has now raised the real GDP forecast for the fourth quarter,
01:3925-26 to 7.8% and the revised growth forecast for overall financial year to 7.7%.
01:48Former Tamil Nadu BJP chief Annamalai has officially resigned from the BJP,
01:53citing differences with the party's approach in the state over the last 18 months
01:58and that his views on Tamil Nadu no longer aligned with that of the BJP.
02:03Annamalai says he consulted the party's top leadership before taking the decision.
02:07The BJP, meanwhile, has played down the resignation,
02:10saying his exit will only, will not impact the party.
02:16Fresh trouble for the newly sworn in DKS government.
02:20Just two days after taking oath, Minister Ramalinga Redi has resigned,
02:25claiming that he was promised a crucial Bengaluru development portfolio,
02:29but was instead allocated at irrigation.
02:32The discontent doesn't end there.
02:34Another minister has also expressed unhappiness over portfolio allocation.
02:38Deputy Chief Minister DK is, in fact, the Chief Minister now,
02:44DK Sivakumar is in damage control mode,
02:48insisting that Ramalinga Redi is a close friend
02:52and that differences will soon be resolved.
02:57TMC political crisis deepens after a split in the TMC legislature party.
03:02sources now indicate that nearly 23 MPs are in touch with the dissent camp.
03:08Facing a mounting pressure,
03:09Ramathabharanerjee has now convened a meeting of senior party leaders today.
03:14Adding to the turbulence, meanwhile,
03:16a disgruntled MP has claimed as many as 20 TMC MPs could abandon the party as well.
03:22These are MPs, remember, in a major boost for the rebels.
03:25The speaker has reportedly termed Ritabrata Banerjee's expulsion illegal,
03:31escalating what is being described as the biggest challenge
03:34to Mamata Banerjee's leadership
03:35and the very existence of the Trinamool Congress since 1998.
03:43Fresh cracks have emerged within the India bloc
03:46ahead of the crucial opposition meeting on the 8th of June
03:49after the DMK decided to skip the gathering
03:51and publicly attack Congress over its alliance with Vijay's TBK in Tamil Nadu.
03:56Sources now indicate that Uddhav's Thakiresh Shivse and IUBT may also stay away.
04:00With key allies expressing dissatisfaction and coordination under strain,
04:05questions are being raised over the opposition alliance's unity.
04:11The news is tightening around Delhi Hotel Fire,
04:14accused Lufkesh Pajaj,
04:16and the revelations are becoming more disturbing by the hour.
04:21Sources now tell India Today that Bajaj was previously arrested
04:24in a fake passport racket case linked to Bangladeshi nationals
04:29and spent nearly two weeks in Tihar Jail before securing bail.
04:33The case is still pending before the court.
04:35India Today has also accessed details of the alleged police confession
04:38in which Bajaj reportedly admitted he fled the area after the fire broke out
04:42and did not stop, despite passing by the scene.
04:48Fire scares in two different parts of Noida within minutes of each other
04:53have once again put the spotlight on urban fire safety.
04:57A major blaze broke out on the 12th floor of a high-rise apartment.
05:01This is in Sector 75, Ivy County Society,
05:05triggering a large-scale firefighting operation
05:08even as the fire was brought under control.
05:12Another blaze was reportedly at a PG accommodation in Sector 52.
05:16Thankfully, we are told no casualties have been reported,
05:19but the back-to-back incidences have now raised fresh concerns
05:23over fire preparedness in densely populated buildings.
05:31A chilling murder inside a Mohali office has sent shockwaves through the city.
05:36Police say a woman employee was allegedly stabbed to death by her former partner
05:41after she refused to reconcile.
05:43The accused, identified as Harry, has reportedly been trying to revive the relationship
05:49after the couple broke up.
05:50Investigators say when Dimple rejected his advances,
05:53he allegedly attacked her repeatedly inside the workspace,
05:58turning an office into a crime scene.
06:00The accused has been detained and further investigation is underway.
06:08President Putin has said that Moscow is ready to jointly develop and manufacture
06:13the fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter with India,
06:18while also offering to share critical technologies.
06:20The proposal comes as the Indian Air Force continues its search
06:24for the fifth-generation combat aircraft
06:27and amid concerns over reports that Pakistan could acquire China's J-35 stealth fighter.
06:34Now, with India's indigenous AMCA project still years away from induction,
06:40Putin's offer is likely to spark fresh debate over the future of India's fighter fleet.
06:47A major push by the government to attack global capital
06:51and boost investor confidence in a significant policy move,
06:54capital gains earned by foreign investors on government bonds
07:01will now be exempt from tax.
07:03The RBI has also unveiled a series of measures aimed at easing investment flows,
07:09including raising the equity investment limits for non-resident Indians.
07:14The announcement triggered a positive market reaction,
07:17with the rupees surging nearly 50 paisa against the US dollar,
07:20signalling strong investor sentiment.
07:26All right, those were the top stories at this hour,
07:29but let me start by jockeying a memory a little bit.
07:33I want to start today not just with what happened in the Delhi fire,
07:39but with the ones that came before it.
07:42Because we've been here before, again and again.
07:46Let's go back to 2025.
07:49It was the Rituraj Hotel in Kolkata.
07:5314 people never came home, lost in a fire.
07:58In 2024, it was the TRP game zone in Rajkot.
08:0227 dead, many of them children on a summer evening out.
08:08In 2022, it was a four-storied building in Mundkar,
08:13right here in the national capital, 27 gone.
08:17In 2019, it was Arpit Palace Hotel in Karolbaan.
08:2217 people who had come to the city for a wedding and a pilgrim and a job.
08:26They suffocated in their sleep.
08:29And of course, we all remember 1997.
08:32It was Uphar.
08:3459 people walked in to watch a film called Border.
08:38They never walked out.
08:40And this week, it was Malvyanagar.
08:4421 people checked into a guest hotel,
08:46a guest house in fact, expecting comfort and rest.
08:50While people they knew were getting treated in a hospital close by,
08:55instead they were trapped inside the building that turned into a furnace.
08:58Now, it has been three days and questions have only grown louder.
09:04Different cities, different years, different names.
09:08But it is always the same story.
09:11A building that should never have been open.
09:14Exits that did not work.
09:17Clearances that were never there.
09:20And warnings that nobody acted upon.
09:23And once again, Delhi is asking a question this country has asked far too many times.
09:29How many more people have to die before the government wakes up?
09:34Remember, this is not just a feeling.
09:36The numbers are saying the story.
09:39So let's bring some of those numbers on the screen for you.
09:41The India Today Data Intelligence Unit analysis of NCRB data paints a very, very disturbing picture.
09:50Look at 2024 over there.
09:52Commercial building fires in Delhi were deadlier than the national average.
09:57Every such fire in the city killed 1.33 people on an average, higher than the figure of the whole
10:03country.
10:05Delhi more vulnerable to fire than the rest of the country.
10:10And the trend is moving the wrong way.
10:12Commercial building fire deaths in Delhi have tripled since 2021.
10:19From 4 deaths in 2021 to 12 in 2024.
10:26Naturally too, deaths in commercial building fires have climbed to a 5-year high.
10:32The warning signs were there.
10:34The data was there.
10:36The risk was known.
10:38And still, enforcement could not keep up.
10:41So, how did it happen again?
10:44Well, in the case of Malwe Nagar, the story goes like this.
10:48The owner of the hotel, Lafkesh Bajaj, is now under arrest.
10:52And sources reveal a series of shocking admissions.
10:56Investigators say that the hotel did not have a mandatory fire, no objection certificate.
11:00A building where dozens of people slept every night allegedly had no fire clearance at all.
11:06When we on 5 Live spoke with the fire chief, he said nobody approached him.
11:10No authority approached him for a clearance.
11:13Sources also say that the hotel was permitted to run just about 6 rooms.
11:18It was allegedly running 25, not 7, not 10, 25.
11:26More than 4 times the approved capacity.
11:29Every extra room meant more guests.
11:32Every extra guest meant more risk.
11:34And when the fire came, the cost was catastrophic.
11:41Sources also say that Bajaj ran the hotel without any partners and left day-to-day running to an accountant.
11:47But the focus is not on one man here.
11:49Let's not be fooled by that.
11:51Because a hotel does not operate in a vacuum.
11:55A hotel needs licensing.
11:58It needs inspections.
12:00The hotel runs under the watch of several government departments.
12:03Which brings us to the question we have continuously been raising.
12:08If the violations were this dated, how did this place stay open?
12:15So look at this data because there's more.
12:17Sources say that Lufkesh Bajaj was arrested once before.
12:20In 2025, in a fake passport racket case apparently.
12:24The allegations including arranging of fake passports for Bangladeshi nationals.
12:29He spent about 15 days in Tihar jail as well before he got bail.
12:33That case, we are told, is still pending.
12:37Investigators are now examining whether there were warning signs about the operator.
12:42Signs that should have triggered far closer scrutiny.
12:46That clearly did not happen.
12:49Talking about things that did not happen.
12:51Delhi government has gone into damage control ever since.
12:56The Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has called a high-level review.
12:59The city-wide fire safety audit has been ordered.
13:03More than 400 guest houses and beds in breakfast establishments are now under the scanner.
13:08Several licences have already been cancelled and the fire safety compliance drive is underway.
13:16All this is being promised by the government.
13:19But here's the hard question.
13:21Why now?
13:22Why only after families have already lost the people they love?
13:27Because this is not about one hotel.
13:30And as Delhi sort of buries its dead, the spotlight turns into those entrusted with keeping the public safe.
13:40We are continuously highlighting their faces here on the programme.
13:44It includes the Delhi Home Minister, Ashish Sud.
13:47It includes the Tourism Minister, Kapal Mishra.
13:49It includes the Home Secretary, Santosh Vaidya.
13:52It includes the Director of Fire Services.
13:55It includes the MCD Deputy Commissioner, Rakesh Kumar.
13:59It includes the MCD Junior Engineer, Ashish Rai.
14:03Because all of this is not politics.
14:05It's about accountability.
14:07Let's be very clear.
14:11So after having understood the entire sequence of events, the man responsible, the owner, his history,
14:20the history that India has had and Delhi has had with fire incidences on its own,
14:27here are some of the questions that we need answers to.
14:31Let me start with number one.
14:3421 people are dead, but someone signed off on that building long before the fire reached it.
14:40Who gave that clearance?
14:42Who put their name on the file that said these guests were safe?
14:48Whose signature does it have?
14:51Question number two.
14:53Was fire safety actually checked on the ground or just ticked off on the paper?
14:57And if the safeguards were missing all along, why did it take 21 bodies to find out?
15:04Question number three.
15:06A guest house running four times its permitted size, allegedly no fire clearance.
15:11How does a place like that stay open in plain sight while guests keep checking in night after night?
15:20Question number four.
15:22Call it what it was.
15:24An intelligence failure, an inspection failure, an enforcement failure,
15:28or all of these three across every agency that was supposed to catch it.
15:35Who will take the blame?
15:39And question number five.
15:41The owner is in custody.
15:43But does accountability stop at him?
15:46Or do officials pay to inspect our taxpayers' money going in to paying their salaries so that they ensure that
15:57licensing and detailing and also inspections are done on time?
16:04What were they doing?
16:08Will they answer the families of those who are now no more?
16:17And question number six.
16:20This is the one Delhi has to sit with, right?
16:27Did 21 people die because of a fire or did they die because the warnings were ignored, the rules were
16:32broken, the inspections failed,
16:34and the system meant to protect them had quietly stopped working long before the first spark?
16:40Was this just a tragedy waiting to happen?
16:46Well, those are the questions.
16:48Sit into that and remember those next time you have a politician come to your doorstep and ask for votes.
16:56All right.
16:57Having understood that, we are told there are some updates coming in on the Delhi fire tragedy.
17:03We are told now that Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has shared a high-level meeting at the Delhi Secretariat.
17:09We are told two officers from MCD, Delhi Police, Fire, DD and other departments to attend that meeting as well.
17:16We are told Rekha Gupta is likely to take strict action against unauthorized and illegal buildings and structures.
17:25In fact, we are told these are the shots that are coming in out of the meeting that happened today.
17:32The Delhi Chief Minister meeting in with the authorities and other departments in charge of giving clearances.
17:42My colleague Sushant joins us for more on this.
17:45Sushant, take us through what exactly happened here.
18:14Sushant, take us through what we have done here.
18:45Sushant, take us through what we have done here.
18:46The police, the police, all the responsibility is that if there is no need to be done,
18:51then it will be stopped before.
18:53So, if there is no need to be done,
18:56if there is no need to be done, then it will be done.
18:59So, now we have the action on this whole situation.
19:03Two days before this, when this happens,
19:05it is late night.
19:06Suchanth, you are saying that action is coming.
19:09Meetings of shots are being released in the media.
19:12But let me tell you,
19:13if there is a fire audit for Delhi,
19:17who will do this audit?
19:19How much time will this audit?
19:21How will it be cleared?
19:23Because you all know that Delhi is a very complicated city.
19:27Union territory.
19:28DDA is different.
19:30Look at the participants today's meeting.
19:33DDA is different.
19:35Delhi Police is not in Delhi.
19:37MCD is different.
19:39If these are different departments,
19:41where there is no one boss.
19:44How will they ensure that these people
19:46sit and can also be able to do an audit?
19:51When this meeting has been shared today,
19:53there is a big decision.
19:56Because in the past,
19:57the government has said that
19:59the fire audit will be done.
20:02Now, the fire audit will be done.
20:04There is no one of them,
20:04even if there is a fire eye audit,
20:06there is no one.
20:18Of the people who have studied the fire audit.
20:23In India, there are hotels, restaurants, or institutions.
20:29There are hospitals that don't have no N.O.C.
20:35They have all insurance so they can have the laws of fire safety.
20:45When it comes to fire, there are no N.O.C.
20:53It is so important that the people are facing.
20:55The rules of fire is easy.
21:01So that people don't get hurt and take a loss of fire.
21:04If there is a loss, then make a building.
21:07If there is a solution, there is no changes in this situation.
21:15So this is the reason why
21:17that today, call all the people together and sit together.
21:20Sushant, sit together, I said that the media is being released visually, but what will it be?
21:27How will they implement?
21:29Taking decisions is not the problem, implementation is the problem in the country
21:33and that is what is not changing, despite who sits in power,
21:36despite whose government it is at the centre and here in Delhi as well.
21:40But we leave it there for the moment. Thanks so much, Sushant, for joining us with the very latest.
21:43But we'll stay with the story, because the deadly Malwe Nagar fire that claimed 21 lives
21:49and triggered a city-wide crackdown on safety violations.
21:52But even as the government promises action, India Today's Reality Check has uncovered
21:57alarming hazards in the heart of Delhi. From hotels packed into narrow lanes
22:03and tangled overhead wires, to buildings with just a single escape route.
22:09The risks remain frighteningly real.
22:12As Delhi learned its lesson, has it?
22:16Or is it another tragedy waiting to happen?
22:20Piyush Mishra reports from the capital's biggest tourism hub.
22:43The horror of Malwe Nagar was a wake-up call for the capital.
22:49As the Delhi government begins its crackdown in illegal structures
22:52and Chief Minister Radeka Gupta holds review meetings,
22:56India Today's Reality Check reveals that Delhi is sitting on a Tinder box.
23:00In the heart of the capital's tourist hub, safety norms are being violated in plain sight.
23:08The blind man jumps around.
23:23Without further ado, the luxury of MI is a real danger.
23:26The people are being violated in the underground.
23:27The dying are being violated.
23:28It's very dangerous.
23:32The people are being violated in Medina city.
23:33The people are being violated, because I have seen many times,
23:33So the people are being violated in LireуВ┤.
23:34They've been violated in the next day.
23:34The people who are Canadians to come from the fire,
23:35The people are largely frantic and the people who are suffering from the fire.
23:35foreign
24:07Hotel after hotel, packed into cramped lanes, operating without basic fire preparedness.
24:15Above them hangs a deadly web of electric wires.
24:18A single spark, a short circuit and these narrow lanes could turn into death traps within minutes.
24:25The roads are so congested that even a car struggles to pass through.
24:29For firefighters, every second matters in an emergency.
24:35This is the area where we have multiple lodges, restaurants in this area.
24:40And if fire breaks out here, it will be cumbersome for fire brigade to even reach here on time.
24:46If any kind of short circuit happens, then people will die in large number here.
24:53Why? Because no rule is being followed here.
25:00What's even more alarming is that most hotels have just one entry and one exit point.
25:05If flames blocked that lone escape route, guests could find themselves trapped with nowhere to run.
25:14When you go up, the fire is already on the road.
25:15The fire is now called a NUC.
25:15NUC has a cylinder facilities.
25:18With a cylinder facilities.
25:20We have the new facility there.
25:22There are no objection certificate under fire.
25:25No objection certificate under fire.
25:27There is no objection certificate, everything is applied right now and everything goes on.
25:29What is the home of the hotel?
25:31I don't know, sir, I don't know how much one's roof is.
25:34foreign
25:39foreign
25:40It is your way.
25:42Do you see, here is your way.
25:47Look here, a Fire Safety Certificates got the fire safety certificate.
25:51The thing about this area is that there are so many trees here,
25:57where there are trees and trees.
26:01There are so many trees that are not yet reached.
26:03But there is a fire safety certificate.
26:05It has signed the fire safety certificate.
26:20The Malwia Nagar blaze was a warning, a warning that Delhi cannot afford to ignore.
26:25Because unless authorities crack down on violations and enforce fire safety norms,
26:30the next tragedy may not be a question of if, but whether.
26:34With Piyush Mishra in Delhi, Bureau Report, India Today.
26:42The spotlight may be on the national capital after the deadly hotel fire, but the problem is far bigger than
26:48Delhi.
26:49Across the country, questions are being raised about whether hotels are truly prepared to handle any emergency
26:54and whether safety norms exist only on paper.
26:58India Today's reality check now takes us to Lucknow,
27:01where our investigation uncovered serious lapses, missing firefighting equipment,
27:07exposed gas cylinders and even alarming gaps in emergency preparedness.
27:13The findings raise a troubling question.
27:16How? How many more such buildings are operating unchecked across the country?
27:24This is my colleague, Ashish Srivastav.
27:32The deadly Delhi hotel fire has once again exposed a chilling question.
27:38Are the hotels we trust with our lives actually safe?
27:42India Today's reality check in Lucknow reveals a shocking picture.
27:47At Hotel Gemini Continental in Lucknow, the firefighting system appears to exist only on paper.
27:54If we show you a fire system, we find that there is no pipe available in this moment.
28:00The pipe is built in this moment.
28:02Although it's built to open the box, it is built to open the box.
28:06This is made, it is a systematic way, a shisha.
28:08To open the pipe, it is necessary to release a pipe.
28:11The hammer is not available.
28:14The equipment is working.
28:17And the dangers don't stop there. Just below the kitchen, multiple gas cylinders are stored openly.
28:54Even inside the kitchen, only a single sprinkler appears functional. Hardly reassuring in a high-risk zone.
29:04Then comes perhaps the most alarming discovery. The basement. A space that should be equipped for emergency evacuation.
29:12Instead, there are no fire alarms and no visible safety mechanisms.
29:42There is no CCTV. There is no fire extinguisher.
29:48In this hotel, the CFO has made an eclipse.
29:54And it will be made.
29:55Whether it has a pressure, a sensor, or everything.
29:58And there is no fire alarm.
30:01The hotel management is not prepared for this hotel.
30:04Because there is no fire.
30:06India Today's investigation found that safety violations are not limited to one property.
30:12These are not minor lapses.
30:14When safety system fails, lives are put at risk.
30:19With Ashish Srivastava, Biroo Report, India Today.
30:26Now, if Lucknow raised troubling questions, what India Today's team found in Mumbai is equally alarming.
30:33Because the fear after the Delhi hotel tragedy is no longer about one building or one city.
30:38It's about a pattern.
30:40A pattern of hotels and dormitories packed with guests but often lacking visible safety safeguards.
30:46In Mumbai, our cameras were stopped.
30:49Questions were dodged.
30:51Doors were quickly shut the moment a reality check began.
30:55But what we did uncover, with single exit points, all the way from that to concerns over emergency preparedness,
31:05it all raises disturbing questions.
31:09Divesh Singh travelled through Mumbai's hotels and dormitories, exposing the gaps that could turn a stay in India's financial capital
31:19into a complete nightmare.
31:26The devastating hotel fire in Delhi has raised uncomfortable questions about fire safety across India's cities.
31:37But is Delhi an exception or is this a disaster waiting to happen elsewhere too?
31:46India Today's reality check travels to Mumbai.
31:51Our first stop, Hotel Dolphin, near Balad Estate in South Mumbai.
31:56Cameras were unwelcome.
32:02Questions were avoided.
32:05And the team was asked to leave.
32:33What we could see, however, was concerning.
32:36Just one entry and exit point for the entire building.
32:41And no visible fire safety arrangements.
32:44Next, we visited Pavilion dormitory on PD Mellow Road.
32:49One of several dormitories serving workers and short stay visitors near Mumbai's busy transport hub.
32:57You can see, this is a pavilion dormitory on PD Mellow Road.
33:01There is a fire box and a fire containment system.
33:06There is an entry and exit.
33:10There is an entry and an exit.
33:11There is an exit behind.
33:12There is an exit behind.
33:14There is an exit behind.
33:25In the middle of the night, how quickly can occupants escape?
33:29So in the middle of the night, you can see, an exit behind fire safety.
33:33There is an emergency gate.
33:39This gate is an emergency gate.
33:58Yes
34:01The larger concern goes beyond any one hotel.
34:06Across cities, thousands of establishments continue to operate amid allegations of inadequate
34:12fire preparedness and missing emergency exits.
34:18The Delhi tragedy was not just a fire, but a warning, a red alert that what can happen
34:24when safety audits become paperwork and enforcement arrives only after lives are lost.
34:34With Divyeesh Singh, Bureau Report, India Today.
34:44Back-to-back fire incidences in Noida within minutes of each other have also reignited concerns
34:50over urban fire safety and emergency preparedness.
34:54A major blaze erupted on the 12th floor of the Ivy County High Rise in Sector 75 in Noida.
35:01Look at those pictures over there.
35:03Sending thick black smoke across the area and also triggering a massive firefighting operation.
35:08Even as the fire crews battled the flames there, another fire was reported at a PG accommodation
35:14in Sector 52.
35:16This one causing panic among residents there.
35:19Fortunately, no casualties were reported in both.
35:23Now, taking cognizance of the fires, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditana directed officials
35:27to remain on high alert, ensure all possible assistance to those affected.
35:33And also, continuous monitoring of the situation and review relief and rescue measures.
35:37Remember, this is summertime, peak summertime, lots of short circuits, lots of fire inside air conditioning,
35:44and a lot of other devices catching fire.
35:47This is known.
35:48The authorities should be prepared.
35:49But are they really?
35:51Because even as the fires were brought under control, a video of the Ivy County blaze has sparked a bigger
35:56debate.
35:56Look at that for yourself.
35:58The fire was on the 12th floor.
36:01The fire brigade is on the ground floor, really hoping that they have the power to sprinkle water from ground
36:10floor to the 12th.
36:14Now, to reach beyond that time, they could reach just till about 6th floor, 6th or the 7th floor, that's
36:23all.
36:24That image is now raising a critical question.
36:27We keep saying about, we'll do fire audits.
36:31We talk about how fire preparedness, on fire drills.
36:35Are we really ready? Is anybody really following?
36:39Are the residential colonies following?
36:42Where our kids are, where our parents are during the day?
36:46As Indian cities build taller and taller towers, is fire fighting infrastructure really keeping pace.
36:52Do our emergency services have any equipment needed to tackle blazes in high rise buildings?
36:59And if a major fire breaks out on the upper floors of the residential tower, can anyone reach in time?
37:07When was the last time a fire drill was done in a building like that?
37:10And did the locals cooperate?
37:14All those questions, worrying questions now come to mind.
37:18And let me take those to my colleague, Himanshu Mishra, who's joining us now.
37:49Himanshu Mishra,
37:51I will show you some of our minds here.
37:56When we talk about in time and day and day,
37:57when the woman was coming up on the floor,
37:59the water ыФФэЕМьЭ╝ term came out with the water,
38:02when the water was coming down,
38:03when the water was coming down with water,
38:03there was the water that had to come down with water.
38:06And the water is coming out without getting off the water.
38:08The water was coming in the middle of the sea.
38:27I don't know.
38:46I was surprised that the people who live in the house,
38:49some people are in the wind,
38:50just in the sleepers,
38:52and the sleepers have nothing left.
38:55Everything is gone.
38:56The entire life of the population,
38:58the mobile, the laptops, the clothes,
38:59everything is gone.
39:01They can go to the house and go to the house.
39:04There is a car, the car is gone.
39:06There is nothing left.
39:08This is why the fire is coming to the house,
39:11and there is a whole variety of people.
39:13It is important to know that people have started to put water on their own.
39:19The building of fire fighting system is working, but when there is a big fire,
39:26it is not just supporting work.
39:28It is not a standard that you will put the whole building of fire fighting system.
39:34Yes, it is necessary if the system works completely.
39:36It is necessary.
39:39But if someone thinks that the whole building of fire is not going to be able to do this,
39:45and this is the way we are seeing today.
39:49Like Indrapuram said, one building of fire is slowly growing,
39:55and eight building of fire is on its own.
39:57That is, the whole building of fire is on the road,
40:01and there is nothing to save.
40:03My colleague Himanshu, they are pointing out some very pertinent issues.
40:10What are you left after fire?
40:11For us, it is one building, one household, one flat.
40:14And imagine how expensive these flats are.
40:16You put your entire life's earnings into getting an address like that,
40:21and then this happens and nobody comes to your rescue.
40:23Sham, really, what our Indian cities are really becoming.
40:27Getting taller by the day, getting also unsafe by the day.
40:31That was the visual from Noida.
40:33And Delhi, we saw in Mumbai, we saw in Lucknow.
40:38None of them are any different on that.
40:45In news just coming in, CBSC has now launched a complaint with Delhi police
40:49regarding coordinated cyber attacks on its post-result services portal.
40:55All attacks, CBSC says, were successfully mitigated through 24-7 monitoring
41:00with no data breach or compromise of the system.
41:02But CBSC now taking the matter to Delhi police,
41:07saying that the portal was launched on the 2nd of June 2026
41:10to facilitate services such as verification, re-evaluation of answer scripts
41:14for candidates who had appeared for Class 12 board examination.
41:17They are saying the portal was subjected to repeated and coordinated cyber attacks
41:22over the past three days.
41:24The attacks, CBSC says, involved large volumes of malicious traffic
41:28originating from multiple IP addresses within and outside the country.
41:33So what exactly is happening here?
41:35Let's get a word from my colleague, Amit Bhardwaj.
41:37Amit, we are made to understand that the entire vulnerability in the CBSC meet,
41:44even J-E advanced portals had been brought out by students themselves.
41:49What is the rationale behind CBSC taking this to Delhi police?
41:54What are they alleging?
41:57Sonal, you would remember a couple of days back as well,
42:01the CBSC had said while stating that 56,000 applications
42:05were filled for re-evaluation as well as verification on its website.
42:11It had also said that as to how the post-result services portal
42:15was facing a lot of sophisticated attacks.
42:18And that is what they have also told the Delhi police.
42:22This is a special unit of the Delhi police rather,
42:24the ISSO, which is Intelligence Fusion and Strategy Cooperation Unit of Delhi police.
42:31And the CBSC has now approached them with a formal complaint,
42:34saying that sophisticated attacks have happened on its post-result services portal.
42:40And as to how these were IP addresses,
42:43which are not only within the country but also outside the country.
42:47They are also saying on the same note that while such attempts were made,
42:52the breach hasn't happened because of the constant monitoring and response
42:57of the cyber security teams, IP Kanpur, IP Madras,
43:01the Digital India Corporation as well as the I4C,
43:07which is in a way India's most potent, you know,
43:12cyberspace intelligence unit.
43:14Amit, very quickly, very quickly help me understand this,
43:18that, you know, CBSC recently had a change in leadership.
43:22We saw the top two bureaucrats transferred out.
43:25Is this how the new CBSC team is taking on matters,
43:29saying that we will not entertain any more checks by students, etc.
43:33we will take the matter to the police?
43:36Is that what we are seeing this go towards?
43:40So now we will have to basically bifurcate this as well as to whether
43:45this complaint will also include the ethical hackers factor.
43:50Because we know, you and me, both of us know that as to how these
43:54were the schools as well as ethical hackers would expose problems in
43:58the system and safety concerns in the system.
44:00So the CBSC themselves will have to differentiate between what approaches
44:04were made by the ethical hackers and what are the malicious attempts
44:08that have been made on their services, post-result services portal.
44:12So that differentiation will have to be made and they would also need
44:16to ensure that when the Delhi police launches the, you know,
44:20probe into this matter, they don't end up harassing the students
44:23who had exposed the system in the first place.
44:25So your question is also at some place at the right place.
44:30And how does the IFSO will differentiate between malicious,
44:36you know, attacks or ethical attacks?
44:41Yeah, yeah.
44:42All right, Amit Bharatwaj, they're bringing us that nuance
44:45over there at the moment.
44:47It looks like the new leadership in CBSC has decided to take the matter
44:51to Delhi police saying we are facing a lot of cyber attacks on the portal.
44:55Will this become a way in which CBSC files a case against
44:59all those who are making the attacks?
45:01Will this mean that all the students and the ethical hackers
45:06also get into the ring is something that we'll have to wait and watch for.
45:18All right, moving on now.
45:19And this is a story that is coming in India's financial year 26.
45:23GDP growth has been pegged for 7.7% despite global uncertainties.
45:29Political war also breaks out over GDP forecast.
45:32Now, BJP has lashed out at Rahul Gandhi over the dead economy jibe.
45:37BJP says the joke is on him.
45:41Mayra Shakeel joins us for more on the phone line.
45:44On this, Maria, take us through the numbers that have been put out at the moment.
45:50The government making a statement saying despite global uncertainty,
45:54the economic crisis that the world is under,
45:57the India growth story is still valid according to them.
46:01Yes, that's right.
46:03And what the government is saying here is, Sonal,
46:05that the real GDP estimate has in fact grown by 7.7% in financial year 2025-26.
46:14And the nominal GDP has witnessed a growth of 8.9%.
46:17And the primary sector which has actually pushed this growth
46:22and which is actually registering 3.2% growth rate
46:27and has been mainly driven by the performance of agriculture and the fish meat sector.
46:33Because there have been concerns particularly because of the Al Nino
46:36and the overall heaps away which we have seen in recent days across the country.
46:46Real estate, these are sectors which have a huge number of people
46:51who are in these sectors.
46:53These two sectors, these three sectors in fact, Sonal,
46:58have attained double-digit growth at both constant and also concurrent prices.
47:03That's what the government is saying.
47:05This becomes important in the backdrop of what has been said by Rahul Gandhi in particular
47:10that there is going to be an economic tsunami which is on its way,
47:15that there is a massive rural distress.
47:16There is a response that has come in in terms of the statistics and numbers.
47:21Okay.
47:21That it is agriculture and fishery which is actually driving the entire growth.
47:26There have been concerns which have been raised by economists such as Jit Bhalla as well
47:31about the overall GDP numbers.
47:33The real numbers are here and this is what will also generate.
47:37All right.
47:37Maria, Shaqeel, they are reporting on the latest numbers there.
47:41Remember, the wholesale numbers are up.
47:44Retail pricing is up as well.
47:47So, the government despite that coming out with these numbers and feeling quite strong about it.
47:53But let's cut across to some more breaking news coming in.
47:56This is from Delhi now.
47:59Crucial meeting chaired by the Delhi Chief Minister has just concluded.
48:02A major decision was taken during the meeting and officials will now face strict action
48:06if illegal or irregular construction is detected.
48:12If found guilty, the Delhi government will recover costs from the official salary, pensions and even assets.
48:19That's a strong message that has come in from Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.
48:23Sushant, my colleague joins us for more.
48:25Sushant, what has been told in this meeting?
48:28Look, in Delhi, there have been a lot of questions.
48:32This is the biggest question.
48:34This is the biggest question.
48:34Because in this situation, there are cases of people who feel their property
48:39or their homes or their homes or their homes.
48:43But in this case, the government has been a big question.
48:46earlier, people who are registered to court, Free
49:16How is it ensure that the government doesn't report to the Delhi government?
49:21The government reports are reported by the NCD.
49:25The government also reports the government.
49:27They've got a report of the government and the government also runs.
49:31The government and the government have asked which centre to ensure the government is appointed.
49:33It is also a department.
49:35If this government has been a problem for a period of time,
49:37then they will have done it for a while.
49:39By this included, the policyacher Act has been made in this country.
49:50So the departments at Delhi government at least will be facing strict action.
49:58We yet to see what the other, how the other, you know, governments and the other, in fact, you know,
50:05the agencies who actually work on this come out and whether they take responsibilities or no.
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