The state government has appointed a five-member high-level expert committee to probe the collapse.
Double decker flyovers, developing the National Capital Region as a Common Economic Zone and a unified command for governance of Delhi are some of the promises made by ruling Congress on Wednesday in its assembly election manifesto.
Power was also disrupted in many areas as the dust storm swept the national capital late Friday night.
Union Minister M A Naqvi accusing the state government of "criminal negligence", which the TMC described it as "cheap politics".
Chief Project Manager H C Tiwari and three others were suspended.
Six persons were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the collapse of an under-construction flyover leading to the death of two persons seven months ago.
"I am shocked why it was not followed. This is even there in the manual of the Indian Road Congress. Had that been followed then there would have been no casualties. There have been gross violations," Maitra said.
As rescue operations are underway, witnesses recount the horror the structure come crashing down.
Building of more flyovers in cities were only aiding the personal car-owners, Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy on Monday said and maintained that the focus should be on expanding the new-age public transport systems like Metro and BRT.
Glimpses of India's biggest Bowstring/Bow Arch Sting Girder installed by the Hindustan Construction Company on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link at 3.25 am, Friday, April 26, 2024.
Three labourers were killed on Tuesday and six others injured when a portion of an under-construction flyover collapsed in Parle point area of the city, a senior official said.
At least six persons were killed and 40 others injured when a minibus skidded off the Bankim Setu flyover and fell on the railway tracks at Howrah station near Kolkata today.
Larsen & Toubro Ltd has secured a contract from National Highways Authority of India for constructing a six-lane dedicated flyover on National Highways No 1 (NH1) in Haryana at an estimated cost of Rs 418 crore.
Gadkari is credited with the construction of more than 90,000 km of national highways and 30,000 km of new roads in the country in the last 10 years.
These six were placed under suspension along with a superintendent of police rank officer, who was reported suspended earlier.
On January 5, 2022, Prime Minister Modi's convoy was stranded on a flyover due to a blockade by protesters in Ferozepur after which he returned from Punjab without attending any of the events, including a rally. The security breach ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections had led to a major political controversy.
Delhi Police has given permission to the farmers to hold their 'Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat' with the condition of gathering not exceeding to 5,000, no tractor trolleys, no march at the Ramlila Maidan, and made elaborate security arrangements that may lead to a heavy traffic jam in the national capital on March 14, officials on Wednesday said.
About 15 people have been feared killed in the mishap.
Concerned over reaching school late due to traffic snarls caused by an under-construction flyover, an eight-year-old boy in Bengaluru wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose office directed the concerned department to look into the issue.
Twenty six persons were injured, six of them seriously, when a state-owned Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus fell off a flyover in the heart of the city on Wednesday afternoon.
Due to a 'Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat' convened by farmers at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Thursday, the Delhi Police has beefed up security and deployed heavy force for checking vehicles, which might lead to traffic snarls in the central parts of the city, officials said.
The family of nine, Mukesh, his parents, wife and five children, the youngest less than a year old, set out from their 'home' under a flyover in Palam in southwest Delhi on the long walk to their village. While he pushed the cycle, the others walked alongside, some holding bags, others unwieldy bundles on their heads, some barefeet as they walked on the hot tarred road under a scorching sun and others wearing flimsy footwear.
Four more officers of the Hyderabad-based construction company in-charge of building the Vivekanda Road flyover, a portion of which collapsed last week, were arrested on Monday.
The flyover was built over a period of about three years at a cost of Rs 600 crore.
It is important that urban planners for roads in cities make their outlook a little more inclusive and provide for reasonable space for pedestrians and cyclists on roads by protecting their right to use sidewalks.
At least six people were killed and some 12 injured when an under-construction overbridge on the Lucknow-Faizabad national highway collapsed on Monday.
The commuters moving between Delhi and Haryana were either stuck up for hours on the closed borders or walked on foot to reach their respective destinations.
Siddaramaiah asked "If Bengaluru people don't want, why do we want it?"
Preventive measures are in place and the forecast suggests further improvement, said the statutory body responsible for forming air pollution reduction strategies for the region and their implementation.
In several places, from roof-tops and flyovers, people showered petals and garlands on the truck.
A 45-year-old Maratha quota activist allegedly committed suicide in Bandra area of Mumbai in the early hours of Thursday leaving behind a note in which he urged community members to fight for the cause, a police official said.
Bracing for another agitation by farmers, police are fortifying the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh and Delhi-Haryana borders with barricades and deploying more than 5,000 security personnel, a senior police officer said here on Friday.
Thousands of farmers from around 100 villages of Noida and Greater Noida on Thursday took to the streets seeking hiked compensation, bringing traffic to a standstill in several parts of Delhi-NCR as they made an unsuccessful bid to march towards Parliament.
Over 100 people were killed overnight after a fire engulfed a multi-storey garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, officials said on Sunday.
The city's AQI on Friday was the worst since the previous high recorded on November 12, 2021.
Are faulty design, hurried construction and private ownership to be blamed for the incidents of airport roofs crashing?
Tokyo -- the songs Japan, Love In Tokyo and Sayonara from the 1966 Hindi film automatically pop up in the mind -- is buzzing and crowded like any other metropolis, discovers Deepa Gahlot. The modern apartment blocks are built cheek by jowl, so close together that one can open the window and borrow sugar from the neighbour in the next building. One of the fears of the Indian traveller is the unavailability of vegetarian food. Every city and town in Japan has an array of Indian restaurants that serve every variety of cuisine, right from Gujarati to Punjabi to Andhra and Kerala meals.
The incident took place in Bhawanpur's Rali Chauhan village in Meerut district when the vehicle of Kanwariyas came in contact with a low-hanging high-tension power line.
The visuals on social media also showed huge traffic on the National Highway-24 and Sarai Kale Khan where vehicles were crawling. Water from the overflowing Yamuna river reached ITO, a key route to commute from east Delhi to central Delhi and Connaught Place.
As the 'Delhi Chalo' agitation of farmers entered the third day on Thursday, two key border points between Delhi and Haryana remained closed for traffic, while security personnel in anti-riot gear conducted drills and mock exercises to ensure their fool-proof preparation.
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