“We lost an entire generation of our family in just a moment,” said a grieving Bhulan, brother of 60-year-old Tehsin, who, along with his son, three grandchildren and two daughters-in-law, was killed when a building collapsed in northeast Delhi’s Mustafabad area in the early hours of Saturday. Bhulan recalled speaking to his brother on Friday … Read more
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will send a team of experts to investigate the collapse of four concrete girders of an under-construction flyover of the Alappuzha bypass road earlier this week. It was after K.C. Venugopal, MP highlighted the issue in a meeting of the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the NHAI … Read more
Rat miners and other rescue team personnel dewatering the areas where anomaly was identified by the NGRI GPR unit inside the collapsed SLBC tunnel | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Rescue teams are now scouting the areas zeroed in on by the NGRI’s Ground Probing Radar, which have found an anomaly on the surface inside the … Read more
BBC Five times Prof Kevin Fong broke down in tears in a nondescript hearing room in West London, while giving evidence to the Covid inquiry. The 53-year-old has the kind of CV that makes you pay attention: a consultant anaesthetist in London who also works for the air ambulance service and specialises in space medicine. … Read more
MVA leaders Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar and Nana Patole protest at Hutatma Chowk over Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Statue Collapse in Mumbai, on September 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The collapse of a statue of the 17th-century Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Sindhudurg’s Rajkot Fort has sparked a heated political confrontation between … Read more
The Mumbai engineer who designed the Ghatkopar hoarding, which collapsed and killed 17 people on May 13, argued in court that the incident was an “act of nature” and he cannot be held responsible for it. The engineer, Manoj Ramakrishna Sangu, was granted bail by a Mumbai sessions court on Thursday. In his bail plea, … Read more
In a statement, BMA junior doctors committee co-chairs Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, said: “We have been clear from the outset of these talks that we needed to move at pace and if we did not have a credible offer, we would be forced to call strikes. Source link
Rescue operation is underway in the Silkyara Tunnel where 41 workers are trapped inside after a portion of it collapsed, in Uttarkashi. | Photo Credit: ANI Rescuers at Silkyara tunnel have crossed the 50-metre mark and they need to dig through around 10 metres of rubble using rat-hole mining technique to bring out the 41 … Read more
“This is Uttarakhand govt’s indolence and negligence,” Congress leader Yashpal Arya on Uttarkashi Tunnel rescue ops Uttarakhand Congress leader Yashpal Arya on Sunday lashed out at the Uttarakhand-led government over the ongoing Silkyara tunnel collapse rescue and said that the incident reveals the government’s “indolence and negligence.” Arya, the Leader of the Opposition in the … Read more
Rescue workers at Uttarkashi Tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand on November 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP As relatives of 40 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel wait for them to come out, a relative of a worker trapped inside the tunnel said that despite assurances nothing seemed to be happening. Deepak Kumar (23), … Read more