Thane building collapse: HC denies bail to deputy engineer

THANE: The district administration has provided compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of 35 victims who lost their lives in the Lucky Compound building collapse at Shilphata on April 4 this year. The delay in giving out the compensation amount ...

Families living in a building here were evacuated by authorities to safety, after it developed a tilt indicating that it would crash anytime, civic authorities said here on Friday. Chief of the Disaster Control Cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) ...

Twenty accused in the Shil-Phata building collapse in Mumbra this year, have been remanded to judicial custody till 2 December by a local court here. Thane Sessions Judge M C Khadke sent them to judicial custody yesterday after being produced in a ...

Mumbai : The Bhusar Aali locality of Kalwa experienced another scare as Ruheen Manzil; a building situated in a lane just next to Annapurna building which collapsed on Monday; developed cracks. The scared locals who claim to have seen some part ...

You would think that with the number of building collapses in Mumbra, authorities would keep a strict eye on the number of illegal structures in the suburb. Clearly, they need a wake-up call as buildings -- whose construction work has still not been ...

In the wake of a series of building collapse in the city, Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) chief Aseem Gupta has directed his officers to conduct a thorough survey of all civic schools as well as private schools to ensure that the structures are safe to ...

Five people were injured after a concrete slab from a 25-year-old building in the neighbouring Thane district fell on their heads yesterday. All families living in the four-storey building have been evacuated. According to sources, the ceiling of ...

Taking serious note of dilapidated buildings in the city after the Kalwa building collapse incident, civic commissioner Aseem Gupta has asked citizens to carry out structural audit, failing which a penalty of Rs 25,000 will be imposed.

In the wake of the Dockyard Road building collapse in Mumbai, which killed 61 people, the Shiv Sena has demanded that the state government formulate a cluster redevelopment policy for old and dangerous buildings in Thane. It has also sought that ...