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Lucknow building collapse: Construction was illegal, officials warn of action

Uttar Pradesh DGP DS Chauhan said that no arrest has been made in the case so far, but “strictest of action” will be taken against whoever is found responsible. He stressed that at the moment the focus remains on the rescue operation.

Around 15 persons have been rescued so far. (Deepak Gupta/HT Photo)

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Updated on Jan 25, 2023 10:28 AM IST

BySharangee Dutta | Reported by Pankaj Jaiswal

Father's Day 2022: Tips for dads to be role models, strengthen parental bonds

Happy Father's Day 2022: Check out these tips from playful approaches to routine activities like music and movement and constructive building blocks, through which dads can get involved in the early education of their youngsters, be role models and strengthen parental bonds.

lifestyle

Updated on Jun 19, 2022 12:38 PM IST

ByZarafshan Shiraz, Delhi

1 dead, 2 hurt as building falls in outer Delhi

Deputy commissioner of police (outer) Sameer Sharma identified the deceased man by his first name as Manas, a resident of Prem Nagar, and the injured as Gareeb Shah (54) and his son Sachin Kumar (age unknown), residents of Bhagat Singh Park area.

A view of the under constructed site after it collapsed, at Phirni Road, Mundka, in New Delhi, India, on Friday, May 27, 2022. (HT Photo)

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Published on May 28, 2022 04:18 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, New Delhi

Gurugram: Developer, engineers booked in 2nd FIR over flats collapse

KK Rao, Gurugram police commissioner, confirmed the registration of the case, and said that besides all the directors of Chintels India Limited, Ashok Solomon, chairman of the Chintels India Ltd, the structure engineer, architect and the contractor have been named in the FIR.

Residents from Tower D vacating flats of Chintels Paradiso housing complex in Gurugram’s Sector 109 on Sunday. (Parveen Kumar/HT photo)

cities

Updated on Feb 14, 2022 05:38 AM IST

ByLeena Dhankhar, Gurugram

Roof collapse: Another body retrieved, rescuers try to stabilise building

Authorities said the district administration borrowed railway cribs from railway authorities and were using them to reinforce the remaining structure

SDRF personnel carry out a rescue operation after a portion of a building of Chintels Paradiso housing society collapsed, in Gurugram, Saturday. (PTI)

cities

Updated on Feb 13, 2022 04:00 AM IST

ByLeena Dhankhar, Gurugram

Amid fear other buildings in society may fall, govt says will act after audit

Although the police are still trying to ascertain the official ownership of the building, senior officers said they will send notices to the agencies concerned for original documentation regarding the construction of the complex, which was built under the Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojna.

Rescue work in progress after a portion of a building collapsed in a JJ Colony, Bawana, in New Delhi on Friday. (PTI)

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Updated on Feb 13, 2022 04:10 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, New Delhi

4 die in Bawana building collapse

All the flats in the buildings are vacant and are in a dilapidated condition. The wooden and iron doors, windows, bathroom fittings and other amenities were stolen long back by anti-social elements, said locals.

Rescue work in progress after a portion of a building collapsed in a JJ Colony at Bawana, in New Delhi, Friday, Feb 11, 2022. Several people are feared to be trapped in the debris. (PTI Photo)

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Published on Feb 12, 2022 05:21 AM IST

ByKarn Pratap Singh, New Delhi

Gurugram ceiling collapse: Societies seek structural audit of buildings

A day after the ceiling collapse of multiple flats in Chintels Paradiso, residents of nearby residential societies demanded a structural audit of all buildings in the area from IIT professionals

A group of residents from Chintels Paradiso hands over the complaint to the officials at Bajghera police station in Gurugram on Friday. (Vipin Kumar /HT PHOTO)

cities

Updated on Feb 12, 2022 05:26 AM IST

ByLeena Dhankhar, Gurugram

Gurugram: Little clarity on what triggered flat collapse, search for victims on

A day later as no clarity emerged on what led to the multi-storey cave in at a condominium in Gurugram Sector 109 on Thursday evening, a probe was launched by multiple agencies on Friday even as the rescue effort continued

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team personnel on the first floor of Chintels Paradiso in Sector 109, Gurugram, India, on Friday, February 11, 2022. (Photo by Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Feb 12, 2022 06:15 AM IST

ByAbhishek Behl, Leena Dhankhar, Gurugram

Gurugram ceiling collapse: Residents protest against builder

Angry apartment owners of the condominium on Friday held a protest in the society complex and later at Bajghera police station, demanding stringent action against the developer of the residential society having a total of 542 flats.

Residents stage a protest at Chintels Paradiso in Sector 109, Gurugram, on Friday. (Vipin Kumar /HT PHOTO)

cities

Updated on Feb 12, 2022 06:07 AM IST

ByAbhishek Behl

Gurugram ceiling collapse: Head of central warehousing corporation among saved

With his feet trapped under hundreds of kilograms of debris, Arun Kumar Shrivastava, 60, waited 17 hours in excruciating pain to be rescued as disaster response personnel fed him and provided first aid

The Haryana State Disaster Response Force team is at work on the first floor of Chintels Paradiso in Sector 109, Gurugram, on Friday. (Vipin Kumar /HT PHOTO)

cities

Updated on Feb 12, 2022 06:20 AM IST

ByAbhishek Behl, Gurugram

Gurugram residents allege authorities didn't act on pleas over poor construction

A 30-year-old woman resident said she, along with other residents, had approached the Bajghera police station on July 21 last year with complaints about the towers’ construction quality, but claimed that her complaint was not acknowledged

Rescue work underway in Gurugram’s Chintels Paradiso housing complex after the sixth floor roof collapsed during repair work on Thursday. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)

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Updated on Feb 11, 2022 04:03 AM IST

ByLeena Dhankhar, Gurugram

2 dead after roof collapses in sixth-floor flat in Gurugram Sector 109

Police officers on the spot said only two floors — the first and second — between the seventh and ground floors were occupied

Rescue work underway at the Chintels Paradiso complex. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)

cities

Updated on Feb 11, 2022 05:20 AM IST

ByAbhishek Behl, Leena Dhankhar, Gurugram

DREXSPORT supports aspiring Indian athletes

With the advent of COVID-19, people are now on tighter budgets globally but DREXSPORT wants to proudly support India and her aspiring athletes.

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Updated on Dec 01, 2020 05:39 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

India is poised for deep structural health reforms

Covid-19 will act as a trigger. Aided by technocratic capability and new initiatives, public health will get a boost

India’s weak health care is a legacy of limited attention to it after Independence, and the multiple priorities of a young nation. Health care has not been a vote-catching subject and the government spending is only 1.2% of GDP.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

analysis

Updated on Apr 21, 2020 06:49 PM IST

ByParijat Ghosh and Vikram Chandrashekhar

Akshay Kumar on what keeps him on his toes: ‘Even now, there’s the same hunger, greed for good work and also a bit of insecurity’

After experiencing another fulfilling year, Akshay Kumar says he still follows only his heart; adds he still has the ‘same hunger and greed’ for quality work.

Akshay Kumar’s Good Newwz had a successful weekend at the box office.

entertainment

Updated on Aug 14, 2020 01:58 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPrashant Singh

Nobel Prize for discovery of how cells sense oxygen

The award, announced by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (Sweden) on Monday, is the 110th prize in the category that has been awarded since 1901.

Unknown till the late 1980s and 1990s, this understanding is the key to develop strategies to fight many diseases such as anaemia, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary hypertension, and cancer.(HT image)

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Updated on Oct 08, 2019 02:25 AM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Quit due to Article 370 move, says IAS from Karnataka

Senthil, a 2009 batch IAS officer who belongs to Tamil Nadu, said in the interview that he had always been a keen observer of politics.

Senthil, deputy commissioner of Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district, announced his resignation on Friday.(HT image)

india news

Updated on Sep 08, 2019 07:36 AM IST

Bengaluru | ByVikram Gopal

Karnataka IAS officer resigns, says continuing in job would be unethical

S Sasikanth Senthil, a 2009 batch Indian Administrative Service officer, is the second to announce his decision to exit the bureaucracy over the last month.

An engineering graduate from Tamil Nadu, Senthil is posted as the deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district.(ANI Photo)

states

Updated on Sep 06, 2019 02:56 PM IST

ByVikram Gopal

“The sari has become the barometer of the Indian woman’s cultural change,” writes Vogue’s Priya Tanna

Priya believes the fashion industry is finally in a place where it represents the woman with no labels, her whose style, size, skin tone are all-inclusive

Labels no longer apply, and size and skin-tone are all-inclusive, says Priya Tanna (Model: Tanisha. On Tanisha: Sari, Anamika Khanna; jewellery, Amrapali; heels, Christian Louboutin)(Photo shot exclusively for HT Brunch by Hari Nair)

lifestyle

Updated on Aug 31, 2019 11:53 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPriya Tanna

Minecraft@10: Crafting castles on the web

To mark the decade, Mojang has announced free-to-download releases, including a Minecraft Classic version with all the original bugs.

Minecraft is a sandbox game where players can modify their virtual world at will. 3D blocks of pixels can be used to create a home, city, or entire civilisation.

lifestyle

Updated on Jul 20, 2019 02:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNatasha Rego

Illegal construction site on Hindon river’s floodplain sealed

Apart from the new constructions, there are numerous constructions that are already in place over the flood zone of the Hindon river at Chijarsi, Kanawani and Vijay Nagar

The construction, behind Siddharth Vihar, was being done over a 20,000-square yard plot.(Amal KS/HT PHOTO)

cities

Updated on Jun 09, 2019 02:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Ghaziabad | ByHT Correspondent

Most distant space object looks like man in meditation

Called “2014 MU69”, the object -- detailed of which are published in the May 17 issue of journal Science -- looks like a human being sitting in a meditative pose, an ancient relic from the era of planet formation.

The flyby of Ultima Thule was the farthest exploration of an object in history - nearly 6.4 billion km from Earth.(HT Photo)

world news

Updated on May 19, 2019 12:49 PM IST

Washington | ByIndo Asian News Service

Mumbra station: Platform school on track with 30 students

For the past one month, volunteers and teachers have been going around the platform and counselling parents about the importance of education

The school opened a month ago.(Praful Gangurde/ HT Photo)

cities

Updated on Jan 13, 2019 10:14 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnkita G Menon, Thane

Planets with oxygen don’t necessarily have life: Study

Simulating in the lab the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system, researchers successfully created both organic compounds and oxygen, absent of life.

In their search for life in solar systems near and far, researchers have often accepted the presence of oxygen in a planet’s atmosphere as the surest sign that life may be present there.(File Photo)

world news

Updated on Dec 18, 2018 01:57 PM IST

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India

Review: Ramayana vs Mahabharata by Devdutt Pattanaik

Devdutt Pattanaik argues that the Ramayana and the Mahabharata have the same structure and theme

Java’s Wayang Orang group which enacts episodes from the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.(Getty Images)

books

Updated on Dec 14, 2018 09:52 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByDhrubo Jyoti

Australia coach Langer hails new opening pair’s chemistry

Finch and Khawaja, promoted up the order in the absence of the suspended David Warner, put on a 142-run stand in the first innings and 87 in the second in a stellar debut for their nascent partnership.

cricket

Updated on Oct 13, 2018 09:31 AM IST

Dubai | ByReuters

Japan successfully lands robot rovers on asteroid’s surface

The space agency reported that MINERVA-II1 is the world’s first mobile exploration robot to land on the surface of an asteroid.

The Japanese space agency said that it has made history by successfully landing two unmanned rovers on an asteroid.(JAXA photo)

india news

Updated on Sep 23, 2018 10:21 AM IST

Indo Asian News Service, Tokyo | ByIndo Asian News Service

Curiosity Rover celebrates sixth birthday alone on Mars, determined to ‘find life’

Curiosity Rover’s mission is to determine whether Mars ever was, or is, habitable to microbial life.

A low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called ‘Buckskin’ on lower Mount Sharp.(AFP File Photo)

science

Updated on Aug 06, 2018 06:18 PM IST

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India

The curious case of collagen

What is this collagen that celebrities are swearing by? Is it a potion of health or a youth elixir? Experts decode this new fitness fad.

Collagen helps slow down the ageing process.(Photo: Istock; For representational purposes only)

lifestyle

Updated on Jul 23, 2018 05:51 PM IST

Mumbai | BySusan Jose

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Uttar Pradesh DGP DS Chauhan said that no arrest has been made in the case so far, but “strictest of action” will be taken against whoever is found responsible. He stressed that at the moment the focus remains on the rescue operation.

Happy Father's Day 2022: Check out these tips from playful approaches to routine activities like music and movement and constructive building blocks, through which dads can get involved in the early education of their youngsters, be role models and strengthen parental bonds.

Deputy commissioner of police (outer) Sameer Sharma identified the deceased man by his first name as Manas, a resident of Prem Nagar, and the injured as Gareeb Shah (54) and his son Sachin Kumar (age unknown), residents of Bhagat Singh Park area.

KK Rao, Gurugram police commissioner, confirmed the registration of the case, and said that besides all the directors of Chintels India Limited, Ashok Solomon, chairman of the Chintels India Ltd, the structure engineer, architect and the contractor have been named in the FIR.

Authorities said the district administration borrowed railway cribs from railway authorities and were using them to reinforce the remaining structure

Although the police are still trying to ascertain the official ownership of the building, senior officers said they will send notices to the agencies concerned for original documentation regarding the construction of the complex, which was built under the Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojna.

All the flats in the buildings are vacant and are in a dilapidated condition. The wooden and iron doors, windows, bathroom fittings and other amenities were stolen long back by anti-social elements, said locals.

A day after the ceiling collapse of multiple flats in Chintels Paradiso, residents of nearby residential societies demanded a structural audit of all buildings in the area from IIT professionals

A day later as no clarity emerged on what led to the multi-storey cave in at a condominium in Gurugram Sector 109 on Thursday evening, a probe was launched by multiple agencies on Friday even as the rescue effort continued

Angry apartment owners of the condominium on Friday held a protest in the society complex and later at Bajghera police station, demanding stringent action against the developer of the residential society having a total of 542 flats.

With his feet trapped under hundreds of kilograms of debris, Arun Kumar Shrivastava, 60, waited 17 hours in excruciating pain to be rescued as disaster response personnel fed him and provided first aid

A 30-year-old woman resident said she, along with other residents, had approached the Bajghera police station on July 21 last year with complaints about the towers’ construction quality, but claimed that her complaint was not acknowledged

Police officers on the spot said only two floors — the first and second — between the seventh and ground floors were occupied

With the advent of COVID-19, people are now on tighter budgets globally but DREXSPORT wants to proudly support India and her aspiring athletes.

Covid-19 will act as a trigger. Aided by technocratic capability and new initiatives, public health will get a boost

After experiencing another fulfilling year, Akshay Kumar says he still follows only his heart; adds he still has the ‘same hunger and greed’ for quality work.

The award, announced by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (Sweden) on Monday, is the 110th prize in the category that has been awarded since 1901.

Senthil, a 2009 batch IAS officer who belongs to Tamil Nadu, said in the interview that he had always been a keen observer of politics.

S Sasikanth Senthil, a 2009 batch Indian Administrative Service officer, is the second to announce his decision to exit the bureaucracy over the last month.

Priya believes the fashion industry is finally in a place where it represents the woman with no labels, her whose style, size, skin tone are all-inclusive

To mark the decade, Mojang has announced free-to-download releases, including a Minecraft Classic version with all the original bugs.

Apart from the new constructions, there are numerous constructions that are already in place over the flood zone of the Hindon river at Chijarsi, Kanawani and Vijay Nagar

Called “2014 MU69”, the object -- detailed of which are published in the May 17 issue of journal Science -- looks like a human being sitting in a meditative pose, an ancient relic from the era of planet formation.

For the past one month, volunteers and teachers have been going around the platform and counselling parents about the importance of education

Simulating in the lab the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system, researchers successfully created both organic compounds and oxygen, absent of life.

Devdutt Pattanaik argues that the Ramayana and the Mahabharata have the same structure and theme

Finch and Khawaja, promoted up the order in the absence of the suspended David Warner, put on a 142-run stand in the first innings and 87 in the second in a stellar debut for their nascent partnership.

The space agency reported that MINERVA-II1 is the world’s first mobile exploration robot to land on the surface of an asteroid.

Curiosity Rover’s mission is to determine whether Mars ever was, or is, habitable to microbial life.

What is this collagen that celebrities are swearing by? Is it a potion of health or a youth elixir? Experts decode this new fitness fad.

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