A fire broke out early Saturday at Tata Electronics Private Limited’s mobile phone accessories painting unit in Krishnagiri district. Employees were safely evacuated and seven fire tenders were dispatched to contain the blaze. Three workers experienced respiratory distress but are stable. The facility employs about 4,500 people, mainly women.

A large black cobra entered the Akelgarh water filtration plant in Kota, causing panic and halting the water supply to thousands of households for two to three hours

The Taj West End Hotel in Bengaluru’s Race Course area received a bomb threat through an email from unidentified miscreants, the police said on Saturday.