Third fire at TOI

IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/02/2017

On Monday Feb 27 the TOI building caught fire again, and staff now have to work from home and the press club. On Sunday there was a fire which according to other newspapers took 25 fire tenders to douse. Sunday's fire occurred less than a year after a fire in the same building in May 2016. What's going on?

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