<p>A fire broke out at the sixth floor of Shastri Bhavan here this evening, damaging some rooms occupied by officials of the I&B Ministry.<br /><br /></p>.<p>According to Delhi Fire Service, they received a call about the blaze around 6:40 pm following which seven fire tenders were rushed to the spot.<br /><br />The fire has been doused and no one was injured, a fire official said, adding that the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.<br /><br />After the fire, Information and Broadcast Minister Prakash Javadekar reacted by tweeting - "My alert staff informed me about the #fire in I&B ministry. Nobody is injured and all are safe. Presently I am in Pune."<br /><br />In another tweet, he said, "It seems committee room and some staff rooms have been damaged. We will take stock of the damage once the fire is doused fully."<br /><br />"Our secretary, officers and my personal staff are on the spot and I have asked them to cooperate with the fire brigade officials," he said in third tweet.<br /><br />It is the second such incident in which fire has been reported at the office of I&B Ministry in Shastri Bhavan. On May 21, a fire had broken out at the Ministry and some furniture and computer peripherals were gutted.</p>
<p>A fire broke out at the sixth floor of Shastri Bhavan here this evening, damaging some rooms occupied by officials of the I&B Ministry.<br /><br /></p>.<p>According to Delhi Fire Service, they received a call about the blaze around 6:40 pm following which seven fire tenders were rushed to the spot.<br /><br />The fire has been doused and no one was injured, a fire official said, adding that the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.<br /><br />After the fire, Information and Broadcast Minister Prakash Javadekar reacted by tweeting - "My alert staff informed me about the #fire in I&B ministry. Nobody is injured and all are safe. Presently I am in Pune."<br /><br />In another tweet, he said, "It seems committee room and some staff rooms have been damaged. We will take stock of the damage once the fire is doused fully."<br /><br />"Our secretary, officers and my personal staff are on the spot and I have asked them to cooperate with the fire brigade officials," he said in third tweet.<br /><br />It is the second such incident in which fire has been reported at the office of I&B Ministry in Shastri Bhavan. On May 21, a fire had broken out at the Ministry and some furniture and computer peripherals were gutted.</p>