Jalandhar: In a building collapse in Jalandhar, as many as 20 lives were lost while hundreds of people were saved, thanks to the rescue workers who worked tirelessly for a week. Here's the story of the heroes of Jalandhar. Directing the team of rescue workers was Des Raj of the Shah Satnam Green Welfare Force. An arm of the controversial Dera Sacha Sauda, the body of volunteers had rushed to...
09:35 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The police on Saturday said the collapsed blanket factory in Jalandhar which led the the death of 21 people does not exist in government records. This was revealed by the Jalandhar Divisional Commissioner who said the the factory does not figure in the records of the director factories. This is surprising as a full fledged factory was officially invisible. The three-storey building of a blanket manufacturing factory collapsed...
05:35 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Jalandhar: Four days on, there has been news of a miraculous escape in the Jalandhar factory building collapse. A survivor literally walked out on his own from under the debris after being helped out by rescue workers. Despite being trapped for over three days, the factory worker Nitesh Kumar came out almost unscathed. However, there are still dozens more still feared to be trapped under the debris. So far, 10...
09:32 AM, Apr 19, 2012
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11:50 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Jalandhar: It has been 72 hours since the factory building collapse in Jalandhar. Ten people have died, 61 people have been rescued and over 90 people are still believed to be trapped inside. While hopes of finding survivors are now dimming, one man was pulled out of the rubble alive on Wednesday. Pachho Devi, whose 17-year-old son died pinned under a heavy beam at the collapsed factory, has little tears...
08:27 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: In a miraculous escape, one person was pulled out alive after 48 hours from the rubble as the death toll from the collapse of an industrial building in Jalandhar rose to 7 on Wednesday morning. The person, who was pulled out alive, said he has seen four dead bodies inside. 65 people have been rescued. The victims were all factory workers doing the night shift on Sunday when...
07:36 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Jalandhar: Nearly seven people have died so far in the Jalandhar factory collapse and rescue operations are still on at the site. A little boy, Manu sits red-eyed anxiously waiting for some news of his younger brother who is trapped under the rubble of this collapsed factory. He spoke to Manu a few times through his mobile, desperately pleading for water until the battery died. However, as hours tick by,...
11:35 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: More than 100 people were still feared trapped under the rubble after a three-storey building of a blanket manufacturing factory collapsed in Focal point area in Jalandhar on Sunday night. Six persons were killed in the incident while 58 people have been rescued so far. Rescue efforts were still to save those still trapped under the debris of the factory building. Police, Army and personnel from the National...
09:52 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Jalandhar: The Punjab government on Monday evening ordered an inquiry into the collapse of the building of a blanket factory in Jalandhar late on Sunday night which left two people dead and several others trapped under the debris. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal ordered the Jalandhar Divisional Commissioner to conduct an inquiry into the reasons for the collapse of the four-storeyed building of blanket manufacturing unit, Sheetal Fabrics, Jalandhar. Badal...
02:52 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Jalandhar: A building housing a blanket factory collapsed in Jalandhar on Sunday night, leaving one person dead. At least 20 people were feared trapped under the debris. The incident occurred in the Focal Point area. Rescue efforts continued through the night and 40 to 42 people were rescued. The rain caused some problems in rescue operations on Monday morning. Eyewitnesses said the building fell after an explosion in the boiler....
07:33 AM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Four labourers were killed in a bridge collapse in Pauri Garhwal district early on Sunday morning. Sixteen others were injured and many others are feared to be still trapped under the debris. The under-construction structure over Alaknanda river collapsed when concrete was being poured into the steel frame. Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna has ordered an inquiry into the incident. The reasons for the collapse of the bridge were...
12:11 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Paradip (Odisha): At least 27 workers were injured, 11 of them seriously, when the roof of a silo caved in at an Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative Limited (IFFCO) plant in Paradip on Monday. "The steel and asbestos structure in the shore-based IFFCO unit premises collapsed causing injuries to about 27 workers. Eleven of them sustained serious injury," Paradip additional superintendent of police Bijay Sahu, who supervised the rescue operation, said....
08:27 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Ghazipur: BJP president Nitin Gadkari had a narrow escape on Tuesday when the dais he was sitting on crashed during an election rally in Mohamadabad Assembly of Ghazipur district. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening when the dais gave in due to "excessive load" while Gadkari was being welcomed by some party leaders during an election meet at Raghuvarganj area, police said in Ghazipur. No one was injured in the...
07:25 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Lahore: A three-storey factory collapsed on Monday in the Pakistani city of Lahore after a gas explosion, killing at least five people and trapping dozens, emergency officials said. "The factory has completely collapsed and two houses next to it as well," an emergency official at the site told Reuters by telephone, adding that narrow streets was preventing heavy rescue machinery from reaching the area. Karamat Ali, a spokesman for the...
10:17 AM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delih: Two people are dead and seven labourers were injured in Nagpur when a multi-storey building collapsed on Monday night. The building was housing a small industrial unit. The deceased are yet to be identified even as the rescue operations are in full swing to extricate those who are still feared trapped under the debris, police said, adding one of the two workers died on the spot while the...
06:49 AM, Jan 31, 2012
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