Mumbai: Police on Monday arrested two more people in connection with a seven-storey building collapse in Thane in which 74 people lost their lives. Police arrested Farookh Abdul Latif Chapra and Rafiq Daud Kamdar, taking the number of people arrested in the case to nine.
Thane Police on Saturday arrested seven people including builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, the Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation, the Assistant Municipal Commissioner, the Assistant Sub-Inspector of the local police station and the local corporator.
Five officials have been charged with criminal conspiracy while the two builders have been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
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11:06 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: Thane Commissioner of Police KP Raghuvanshi on Sunday said that nine people have been arrested in the building collapse that led to death of 74 people and injured over 60 and sent to police custody till April 20. Raghuivanshi also said that one of the builders was nabbed in UP and the other in Thane. "We have also arrested some public servants who were involved in this. The builders...
03:48 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: The police have now arrested one more person including two builders, the local corporator, an Assistant Sub Inspector, a Suspended Deputy Commissioner and also an Assistant Commissioner of the Thane Municipality in the Thane building collapse. The eight people have been charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act and for criminal conspiracy in the tragedy which led to death of 73 people. They eight accused were produced in court...
01:42 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Thane: The four-year-old miracle survivor of Thursday's Daighar building crash in Thane finally opened her eyes to harsh reality on Sunday, and cried, much to the relief of surviving relatives and siblings, doctors said. The victim, Sandhya Thakur, had been unable to open her eyes, swollen with dust, watering and psychological trauma, after the seven-storey building collapsed on Thursday. She had spent several hours under the debris before rescuers dug...
12:21 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: Seven people including the two builders were arrested on Saturday, three days after after a seven-storey building collapsed like a pack of cards in Thane. Seventy three people have died and more than 60 injured in Maharashtra's worst ever building collapse in decades. Thane Police on Saturday arrested seven people including builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, the Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation, the Assistant Municipal Commissioner,...
08:09 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: The NDRF said that rescue operation in the tragic Thane building collapse is over and the death toll has gone up to 72 in one of Maharashtra's worst ever building tragedy. More than 60 people have been injured after a seven-storey building collapsed like a pack of cards in Mumbra area on Thursday evening. The builder, the contractor and the supervisor have been charged with culpable homicide. Municipal authorities...
12:54 PM, Apr 06, 2013
More than 24 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the death toll is still rising. 71 people are reported dead so far. This toll includes 9 boys and 13 girls. ...
12:37 PM, Apr 06, 2013
More than 40 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the death toll is still climbing. Seventy one people are reported dead so far and the toll includes nine boys and 13 girls. More than sixty people have been injured in one of the worst building collapse disasters in Maharashtra. Meanwhile, the authorities are assessing the full extent of the tragedy. ...
10:27 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Mumbai: More than 40 hours after the horrific building collapse in Thane, the death toll is still climbing. Seventy one people are reported dead so far and the toll includes nine boys and 13 girls. More than sixty people have been injured in one of the worst building collapse disasters in Maharashtra. Meanwhile, the authorities are assessing the full extent of the tragedy. Thane Municipal authorities have said that the...
07:29 AM, Apr 06, 2013
In one of Maharashtra's worst building collapses in a decade, over 40 people have died and 60 have been injured after a seven-storeyed building in Laxmi Compound in Mumbra, a suburb of Thane, crashed down like a pack of cards into a heap of rubble on Thursday evening. ...
10:08 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Among those injured in the Thane building collapse is a four-year-old girl, whose parents are yet to be traced. She was rescued by a person who is now taking care of her in the hospital. The man claims she was found with several injuries including on her head and needs a CT scan. The girl is around four to five years of age. Efforts are on to try and...
03:08 PM, Apr 05, 2013
The death toll in the Thane building collapse climbed to 36 - 11 of them children. More people are still trapped in the rubble and lack of equipment is hampering rescue work. ...
12:59 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Forty one people have died in the Thane building collapse and over 60 were injured in one of the worst building collapse disasters in Maharashtra. The seven-storied, under-construction illegal building collapsed on Thursday evening. The rescue operations are being hampered due to severe shortage of fire stations in the area, sources said. Sources also added that the fire department is ill-equipped to deal with such a massive a building...
11:41 AM, Apr 05, 2013
A major fire broken out on January 5 at storage tanks of Indian Oil Corporation's terminal at Hajira port here, fire brigade officials said. Fire brigade personnel from Surat and nearby cities were trying to bring the fire under control. ...
04:35 PM, Jan 05, 2013
New Delhi: A fire broke out at a bank branch in the Supreme Court complex in New Delhi on Sunday afternoon, fire brigade officials said. The fire was reported from the UCO Bank office inside the Supreme Court complex in Central Delhi at around 4:25 pm. Six fire tenders were rushed to the spot and fire brigade officials said the blaze has been doused. The reason of the fire is...
06:39 PM, Jun 17, 2012
New Delhi: A fire broke out inside the Finance Ministry office in the wee hours of Thursday morning. The flames have been doused now but the assessment of the damage is still being conducted. The fire broke out in two rooms and officials say that many documents have been burnt. Six fire brigades and electricians were rushed to the spot at about 5.45 am in the morning but the exact...
08:20 AM, Jun 07, 2012
Mumbai's firemen came out on the streets on Wednesday to protest against poor equipment, difficult working condition. ...
06:55 PM, Jul 07, 2010
In Mumbai, fire fighters are now using street plays in an effort to teach safety measures to people. ...
03:10 PM, Jun 12, 2010
The unsung heroes of Fire Brigade battled blaze, braved threat of bullets. ...
02:46 AM, Nov 29, 2008
New Delhi: Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar supported the BCCI's decision to suspend the five uncapped Indian players as allegations of spot-fixing in the IPL surfaced through a television sting operation in which these players were named. Yes, it was correct to suspend them. That's the least they could have done, said Gavaskar. The action to suspend Mohnish Mishra, Shalabh Srivastava, TP Sudhindra, Amit Yadav and Abhinav Bali with immediate ...
03:19 PM, May 23, 2008
