At least 70 people were killed and several others feared dead on Wednesday when an eight-storey commercial building collapsed in Dhaka. Rescuers retrieved 70 bodies. Scores of people were feared trapped inside the debris of the Rana Plaza, a building housing nearly three hundred shops in suburban Dhaka.
Heartbreaking tales like a male survivor losing 13 of his family members unfolded, as rescuers armed with sensor-fitted equipment still looked for survivors and bodies in the debris of bricks, mortar and twisted steel, a day after the collapse at Shil-Phata in Daighar in Mumbra.
The seven-storey building in Shil Dhaigar locality was unauthorised, civic officials said, adding that it was occupied at least up to the fourth floor. The incident took place at around 6.30 pm.
The unauthorised building was occupied at least up to the fourth floor and many are feared dead in the mishap
Cooks have bolted and teachers refuse to taste the food. The mid-day meal scheme faces a crisis
2012 saw Sikkim leaving behind memories of the devastation caused by last year's earthquake as rehabilitation and distribution of ex-gratia continued in full swing during the year.
The death toll in Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster on Thursday rose to 931 as rescuers overnight pulled out 97 more decomposed bodies from sandwiched floors of the ill-fated eight-storey building that collapsed last month.
The death toll in Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster crossed 800 as rescuers pulled out 51 more decomposed bodies on Wednesday from the debris of the ill-fated eight-storey building that collapsed in April. According to officials at the makeshift army control room in Dhaka, the death toll hit 803 on the 15th day after the disaster, while the number of people rescued is 2,437.
The letter, delivered by an unidentified person to Ambani's personal staff in a sealed envelope at his Maker Chambers office on February 24, also said IM would damage his 27-storey mansion 'Antilia' on Altamount Road, a police officer said on condition of anonymity.
The death toll in Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster rose sharply to 715 as rescuers pulled out 36 more decomposed bodies today from the debris of the ill-fated eight-storey building that collapsed last month.
'The very police who are supposed to protect us, gun down our children as if they were from an enemy country,' Gopinatha Pillai, father of Javed Ghulam Sheikh who was killed in the Ishrat Jahan case, tells A Ganesh Nadar
The death toll in the worst building collapse in the history of Bangladesh has risen to nearly 400, even as the fugitive owner of the 8-storey structure was arrested dramatically while attempting to flee to India.
The death toll in the worst building collapse in Bangladesh history today rose to 375 even as the fugitive owner of the 8-storey structure was arrested from Benapole frontiers while attempting to flee to India.
Fourteen people were injured when a portion of the women's ward at a hospital in Bhopal collapsed on Friday evening.
The death toll in the collapse of an eight-storey commercial building here in Bangladesh on Friday rose to 304, as authorities raced against time to look for survivors under tonnes of debris even as a total of 2,348 people were rescued alive.
Amphan was the fiercest Cyclone to hit West Bengal in the last 100 years. A large part of the state was without power as electricity poles have been blown away. Mobile and internet services were also down as the cyclone has damaged hundreds of communication towers.
Birla is believed to have bought the property - a 30,000 square feet plot with a built-up area of 25,000 square feet - for personal use.
The defence ministry on Friday filed a title suit before the Bombay high court seeking claim on the land on which the scam-hit Adarsh Housing Society building stands, alleging the residential complex has been constructed 'illegally and unlawfully'.
Built in 1974, the building could fetch anywhere between Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 1,500 crore, based on current real estate prices
Survivors are still coming to terms with the tragedy that struck the ill-fated seven-storey building in Shil Phata's Lucky Compound in which over 70 people were killed.
Shiv Sena workers on Friday assaulted and blackened the face of an RTI activist at Latur in Marathwada region, after he "exposed" an illegal construction case.
Kapil was tired of travelling extra kilometeres due to protests at Shaheen Bagh, said his uncle. He said Kapil usually had to travel 10 km to reach home but due to protests, he had to travel 35 km.
The Air India board gave a formal approval to the proposal on Thursday.
Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed on Wednesday sought refuge in the Indian High Commission in Male, where he went immediately after issuance of an arrest warrant against him by a Maldivian court.
One person was killed when a four-storeyed building in the city collapsed in Mumbai on Wednesday following heavy rains, fire brigade sources said. The building Gopal Bhavan, located in Mamletdar Wadi in suburban Malad, caved in following rains.
India has lost 58 nationals in the Hajj stampede in Saudia Arabia last month while 78 are still missing, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday.
In one of the worst fire tragedies in Bangladesh, a blaze broke out at Tazrin Fashion factory, a readymade garments factory in suburban Ashulia Savar, 30 km from Dhaka, on Saturday night and quickly spread to the ground and first floors of the six-storey building, killing at least 137 people. The tragedy has highlighted unsafe working conditions in an industry, rushing to produce for major retailers around the world.
Amid apprehensions that several important files relating to the Adarsh Housing Society scam may have been destroyed in Thursday's fire at 'Mantralaya', officials of the CBI and the judicial panel probing it said they have copies of all relevant documents.
The company has unveiled a two-storey, 7,500 square foot restaurant in Riyadh, one of three locations that opened in the city this month to mark the start of aggressive expansion plans.
Nine more bodies were recovered on Monday from debris of the under-construction multi-storeyed building in Chennai that collapsed on Friday, taking the toll in the tragedy to 20 while two persons were pulled out alive
Four persons were killed when a four-storey building collapsed in Inderlok area in North Delhi on Saturday.
Fire broke out in a residential building at Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai early on Sunday, fire brigade officials said.
The house located in Tandel Mohalla of the town came crashing down at around 5 am when its occupants, all members of one family, were asleep, the police said.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has announced the setting up of a Rs 100-crore (Rs 1 billion) multi-purpose shopping arcade in Srinagar.
In the late 1990s, the construction cost of the Ram temple, according to unofficial estimates, was pegged at Rs 120 crore. Adjusting for inflation to the current financial year, the edifice would entail an investment of nearly Rs 450 crore, excluding the land cost.
Close on the heels of his indictment by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal has come under the lens of the office of the Charity Commissioner which has ordered inspection of a building owned by his family-run trust for violation of rules.
Nationalist Congress Party leader and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Friday said rebuilding of the seven-storey Maharashtra government secretariat building, the top floor of which was gutted in a fire, should be done by the government and not by using the build-operate-transfer route.
The Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar on met Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and his Cabinet colleagues and took stock of the situation in the wake of the devastating fire at the state secretariat.
A devastating fire in the Maharashtra government secretariat, including offices of the chief minister and the deputy chief minister, on Thursday left two persons dead and 16 injured and destroyed large number of files, raising questions on whether any sabotage was the cause.
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