A three-storey commercial building collapsed near Saket Metro station in south Delhi, resulting in four fatalities. Rescue operations have concluded, and an inquiry into the cause of the collapse has been initiated.
Delhi Police have arrested the owner of the building that collapsed in Saket, resulting in six deaths and several injuries.
Following a building collapse in Delhi's Saket area that resulted in six fatalities, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has pledged stringent measures against unauthorised constructions and the officials responsible. She has ordered surveys of unsafe buildings and assured support for the affected families.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday night faced the ire of people at a government hospital when he arrived there to visit those injured in the Old Delhi building collapse.
The death toll in the east Delhi building collapse mounted to 66 on Tuesday as scores of rescue workers struggled to pull out those trapped in the debris of one of the worst such incidents in the capital.
A multi-storey residential building collapsed in northeast Delhi's Shakti Vihar area in the early hours of Saturday, leaving 11 people dead and 11 injured, officials said.
'Around 7 am, I was in my house when I heard a loud noise and there was dust all over. When I came down, I saw that our neighbour's home has collapsed'
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is initiating a sealing drive against unauthorised commercial establishments in South Delhi. This action follows recent incidents, including a deadly fire in Malviya Nagar and a building collapse near Saket, which exposed widespread violations of building bye-laws and licence conditions.
Rescue workers on Wednesday continued to search for trapped survivors amidst the debris of the collapsed building in East Delhi. A senior fire brigade official said the debris clearance operation at the collapsed spot in Lalita Park is going on and it may take some more hours to clear it. The toll in the four-storey building collapse in East Delhi rose to 67 with the death of an injured victim late on Tuesday night.
As the tragedy of the building collapse in east Delhi unfolded, a blame-game has begun between the Delhi government and Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit directly putting the onus on the civic body for the accident and the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled agency denied the charge.
Three persons, including two women, were killed when a four-storeyed building collapsed in west Delhi on Saturday morning. The building located near Uttam Nagar Metro Station came down at around 11:30 am while some construction was going on in the basement of the building.
Two more persons, who were injured in Tuesday night's building collapse in Old Delhi, died on Wednesday, taking the toll to seven even as rescue operations continued at the spot of the tragedy for the second day.
The Delhi government is establishing a multidisciplinary committee to develop a regulatory framework for coaching institutes. This initiative follows recent tragedies, including the Saket building collapse and the Old Rajendra Nagar coaching centre incident, and aims to address issues like fee structures, student safety, infrastructure, and grievance redressal.
Around 30 students were attending classes at a coaching centre when the fourth floor of the building collapsed, trapping them under the debris. 13 people have been shifted to a hospital.
A building collapsed in north Delhi's Bawana area on Friday afternoon, killing four people, including a woman and a nine-year-old girl, the police said.
The announcement comes after a massive fire ripped through the Flourish Stay B&B on Wednesday morning, leaving 21 people dead, including 11 foreign nationals, and several injured.
Body of a nine-year-old girl was on Monday pulled out of the debris, taking the death toll in the west Delhi building collapse to five, even as the Aam Aadmi Party government and the BJP-ruled civic body engaged in a blame game over the issue.
Two persons were rescued after the incident that occurred at 4.50 am in Shahbaz village, they said, adding that before the building collapsed, the authorities managed to evacuate 52 residents.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Tuesday said it is launching a survey to identify unsafe buildings near Yamuna riverbed in the city and ordered a vigilance probe into the house collapse disaster in east Delhi as it battled allegations of laxity in allowing illegal constructions in the congested area.
At least 7 people were killed and several others injured when a multi-storey under-construction building collapsed in the early hours of Saturday in north east Delhi, police said. More than 20 people were critically injured when the building in New Usmanpur locality collapsed and shifted to GTB hospital. Six of the injured succumbed to their injuries at the hospital, sources said, adding the figure may go up.
A four-storey residential building in Delhi's Mustafabad collapsed on Saturday morning, killing four people and trapping many others under the rubble. Rescue teams are working to pull survivors from the debris, but the collapse has been described as a "pancake collapse" where chances of survival are minimal.
Four persons were killed when a four-storey building collapsed in Inderlok area in North Delhi on Saturday.
The cause of the collapse was not immediately known and efforts are on to ascertain whether any one is trapped in the debris.
At least five persons were killed and 25 injured on Tuesday night when a 70-year old three- storeyed building collapsed near Old Delhi's Jama Masjid, prompting Municipal Corporation of Delhi to initiate an inquiry into the incident and on dilapidated structures in the area.
The incident was reported at around 5 am and three fire tenders were rushed to the spot, said Atul Garg, director, Delhi Fire Service.
One person was killed and at least nine others were injured when a three-storey residential building collapsed following an explosion in a cooking gas cylinder in Moti Nagar in Delhi on Wednesday morning.
A portion of the Bardhaman Railway Station building collapsed on Saturday evening, an Eastern Railway official said. Work is on to remove the debris and look for people who might be trapped under it, he said.
With the body of one more person recovered from the debris of the four-storey under construction building in New Delhi, the toll in the mishap climbed to eight on Monday."The body of a middle-aged man has been recovered from the site where some more persons are suspected to be trapped under the debris," police said. Identity of the victim could not be ascertained. The owner of the building Deepak Garg is still absconding, police said.
A four-storeyed building collapsed in east Delhi's Jafrabad area in the wee hours on Saturday leaving one dead and more than a dozen people injured.
A senior North Delhi Municipal Corporation official said the building was about 20 years old. Its structure was weak and in a deteriorated condition, the official added.
Six persons were killed while some others are feared trapped after a two storeyed building collapsed in New Delhi in the wee hours on Wednesday.
A 17-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed to death by a group of assailants in the Mahindra Park area of northwest Delhi on Monday night, police said on Tuesday. Police suspect personal enmity as the motive behind the attack.
A father-son duo was killed while another man was injured when a three-storey building collapsed in North Delhi's Bara Hindu Rao area on Wednesday morning.
The incident took place in Railway Colony in Mundka at 7:25 am when some of the labourers were engaged in cooking, police said.
At least 32 people were killed and over 60 others injured when a four-storey building collapsed in a busy east Delhi locality on Monday night.
The Delhi government on Wednesday ordered a judicial inquiry into the building collapse in east Delhi, in which at least 67 people were killed. The inquiry will be conducted by former Delhi High Court judge Justice Lokeshwar Prashad, top officials told PTI. They said the committee will look into all aspects of the incident, including any possible failure of the institutional mechanism.
"Six bodies have been retrieved from the accident site so far. The rescue teams are still on job," an NDRF spokesperson said.
'You think it is written somewhere that she will not? She might escape for two months, perhaps a little longer. But she will go.'
'Something could happen to me... I understood that day itself that what they had sent me was a final warning.'
A food delivery agent was allegedly shot dead by a Delhi Police head constable following an altercation in Jaffarpur Kalan village. The victim, Pandav Kumar, was returning from a birthday celebration when the incident occurred. The accused, identified as Neeraj, allegedly fired at point-blank range after an argument, according to police reports.
