Under two separate sets of restrictions – Delhi government’s Winter Action Plan and Stage 2 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) – private construction in the Capital should have been halted in the days leading up to Thursday’s deadly building collapse in…
Rescue operations at an illegal under-construction building site in Chawri Bazar’s Sheesh Mahal locality were hindered by extremely narrow lanes, littered with hardware stores and flanked by markets that prevented heavy machinery from reaching the site of the collapse. Emergency…
Delhi Police have arrested three contractors in connection with the collapse of an under-construction building near Chawri Bazar Metro Station in Old Delhi, which claimed two lives and left several others injured. The accused, identified as Siraj, Tajuddin and Furkan,…
New Delhi: Three contractors have been arrested from Faridabad in connection with the collapse of an under-construction building in Delhi's Chawri Bazar area that killed two people and injured at least four. The accused, identified as Siraj, Tajuddin and Furkan,…
Multiple building collapses and fires in unauthorised or illegal constructions, killing several people just this year, have once again exposed the larger urban infrastructure problem of Delhi, where lakhs of people are living in unplanned areas You are logged in…
(GLO) - Following a fire in a temporary classroom that resulted in one death, nearly 3,000 students at Kim Lien Secondary School (Hanoi) have had to temporarily suspend in-person classes. The local education department is urgently searching for an alternative location, ensuring…
A tragic under-construction building collapse in Old Delhi's Chawri Bazar resulted in two deaths and five injuries. Authorities ordered suspensions, an FIR, and safety audits as investigations into unauthorised construction continue across the city. Two people were killed and five…
Nairobi — Rescue teams have recovered six more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed multi-storey building in Eastleigh, Nairobi, raising the number of confirmed fatalities as the search for people still trapped beneath the debris continues. Kamukunji MP Yusuf Hassan…
Chawri Bazaar building collapse kills two and injures four as MCD says the under-construction structure had no approved building plan. Chawri Bazaar Building Collapse Kills Two as MCD Finds No Approved Plan The Chawri Bazaar building collapse in Old Delhi…
Neighbours report that the first collapse on Sheesh Mahal street in Chawri Bazar occurred around 9.30am. What they heard was the sound of the third floor of the under-construction structure giving way. Within the next 20 minutes, the remaining two floors had…
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