Thane: Two days after 72 people died and over 60 were injured in Maharashtra's worst building collapse in a decade, the police on Saturday arrested two builders, Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, of the illegal building. While one of them was arrested from Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh, the other was arrested in Thane by the Thane Crime Branch.
Earlier in the day, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) completed its 42-hour long rescue operations, while the builder, the contractor and the supervisor were charged with culpable homicide. Municipal authorities also said the adjacent buildings are now being demolished.
Thane municipal officials said that the building was illegally constructed on forest land and should have been demolished earlier. They added that complaints about the illegal building were made to the forest department but in vain.
The sub inspector of the local police station and Thane Deputy Municipal Commissioner were suspended on charges of collusion with the builders on Friday. Shockingly, Thane Municipal Commissioner has admitted on record that 90 per cent of the buildings in Mumbra area are illegal....
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05:14 PM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: With floods leaving 12 dead and lakhs homeless in Assam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday enquired about the situation from the state government and assured it of all help in rescue and relief measures. The Prime Minister called Assam's Disaster Management Minister Prithvi Majhi to enquire about the situation in the state, the Prime Minister's Office said. He "expressed concern" over the flood situation in Assam and...
09:11 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Guwahati: Torrential rains for one week have led to flash floods in Assam's capital in what may be easily described as the worst floods the state has witnessed in eight years. Almost 23 of its 27 districts are under water. Nearly four lakh people in 2,000 villages are said to be affected and 40,000 hectares of crop land is believed to be destroyed. The Brahmaputra and its tributaries breached their...
08:01 AM, Jun 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian navy and air force have put their warships and aircraft on a state of high alert for carrying out relief and rescue operations in the event of any possible post-quake tsunami situation. The IAF has put two C-130J Hercules aircraft on 'Hot Stand-by mode' at the Hindon air base with 80 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and will be flying for Port Blair with 10 tonnes...
06:47 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Six teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been kept in readiness at Chennai and an equal number moved to Hindon airport to deal with any eventuality in the wake of Wednesday's massive temblors off the western coast of northern Sumatra in Indonesia. A Home Ministry spokesperson said the Andaman Administration has moved people from Nicobar side to safer areas as a precautionary measure. The ministry has...
05:34 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Minor tremors measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale shook New Delhi-NCR on Monday afternoon. The tremors were also felt in several areas of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. The epicentre of the quake was Bahadurgarh near Delhi-Haryana border. Office buildings in Gurgaon in Haryana were reportedly told to evacuate following the medium intensity quake. The tremors were reportedly felt for 15-20 seconds. Five people were reportedly...
01:28 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday sought liberal assistance from the Centre for drought relief in the state. Interacting with an inter-ministerial central team that called on him after touring the drought-hit districts, he said the state would send a fresh request for assistance to the tune of Rs 3,006 crore. A release from the Chief Minister's Office quoted him as saying that a few...
06:02 AM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi/Bagdogra: Stranded relief and rescue teams on Monday started moving towards quake-hit areas in Sikkim after National Highway 31A, linking Sikkim to Bagdogra, has been partially opened for traffic. Meanwhile, the death toll of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Sikkim on Sunday evening has reached 42. Sikkim is the worst hit with 35 casualties, while seven deaths have been confirmed in Bihar and West Bengal. At 6.8 on...
09:53 PM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi/Bagdogra: Even as the death toll due to Sunday evening's earthquake in Sikkim rose to 42, National Highway 31A linking Sikkim capital Gangtok to Bagdogra in West Bengal has been opened for one-way traffic by a team of Army and Border Roads Organisation (BRO) personnel. Rescue and relief teams including those belonging to the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF), which were stranded after landslides caused by the 6.8 magnitude...
04:10 PM, Sep 19, 2011
The various equipments and gadgets used by the NDRF teams in the search and rescue operations in Sikkim. ...
03:28 PM, Sep 19, 2011
Mukul Goel, NDRF IG said that our teams specialise in collapse structure rescue and search operations. ...
10:12 PM, Sep 18, 2011
New Delhi: On March 11, 2011 Japan witnessed one of the worst tragedies known to mankind - an earthquake of the magnitude of 9, followed by a tsunami and then the threat of nuclear radiation. But these are also times that unite the world. Within a fortnight, a 46-member team of the National Disaster Response Force left for Miyagi town in Japan, one of the worst affected areas to carry...
08:33 AM, Apr 15, 2011
Alok Khator lost eight members of his family, including a six-month-old in Friday's tragedy on tracks. ...
07:53 PM, May 29, 2010
