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    Building Collapse News

    Chawri Bazar building collapse: Toll rises to 7; Delhi CM announces ex gratia of ₹10L

    The rescue operation was then finally called off at 4:30am on Sunday, said a senior Delhi Fire Service official.
    Cities
    Updated 3 days ago

    Old Delhi collapse toll jumps to 6; owner held

    NDRF rescue team at the building collapsed spot at Seesh Mahal area in Chawri Bazar, in New Delhi.
    Cities
    Published 6 days ago

    Toll in Old Delhi's Chawri Bazar building collapse rises to 4 as two more bodies pulled out

    NDRF rescue team at the building collapse site in Seesh Mahal area in Chawri Bazar, Delhi.
    India News
    Updated 6 days ago

    Chawri Bazar building collapse: What injured victims recall

    Search and rescue operations entered their second day on Friday and continued until late evening, an officer said (HT)
    Cities
    Published 7 days ago

    Chawri Bazar collapse: Contractors ignored workers’ warnings; 3 held

    Contractors ignored norms to keep construction costs in check, a survivor told police in complaint.
    Cities
    Updated 7 days ago

    Exclusive: Contractors ignored workers' warning on weak structure, says FIR in Chawri Bazar collapse

    NDRF rescue team at the building collapsed spot at Seesh Mahal area in Chawri Bazar, in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, November 5, 2026.
    India News
    Updated 7 days ago

    ‘Barely 2 can walk side-by-side’: Narrow lanes hamper rescue ops after building collaps

    The NDRF deployed a dog squad to search for survivors, while rescue teams broke through the wall of an adjacent building to speed up the operation.
    Cities
    Updated 8 days ago

    Chawri Bazar collapse: Kin of untraced workers face anxious wait

    Vipin's brother Sudhir Kumar said he had not informed the family in Bihar about the collapse.
    Cities
    Updated 8 days ago

    ‘Like a bomb explosion’: Chawri Bazar residents recall deafening sound, screams for help

    Eyewitnesses said the third-floor lintel gave way first, followed by the collapse of the remaining floors within around 20 minutes,
    Cities
    Updated 8 days ago

    Delhi Police file chargesheet against 6 in Satya Niketan building collapse

    The site of the building collapse at Satya Niketan. (Sanchit Khanna/HT)
    Cities
    Updated 8 days ago

    Winter construction ban among many safety rules ignored at Chawri Bazar site

    The Tejendra Khanna Committee estimated in 2006 that 70-80% of structures in Delhi had violated building norms.
    Cities
    Updated 8 days ago

    Police flagged unauthorised construction at Chawri Bazar building 5 months before collapse: Records

    MCD suspended an assistant engineer and a junior engineer following the collapse, while chief minister Rekha Gupta ordered an inquiry and an FIR against the contractor.
    Cities
    Updated 8 days ago

    Chawri Bazar building collapse: Similar incidents that have rocked Delhi

    NDRF carries out search and rescue operations following a building collapse at Milan Garden, Harsh Vihar on October 25.
    India News
    Updated 8 days ago

    Facade, portico damaged, clock destroyed: Portion of 160-year-old Town Hall in Delhi collapses

    The over 160-year-old Town Hall seen after a large section of it collapsed on Saturday.
    Cities
    Updated 10 days ago

    Illegal colonies in Delhi set for 3-year safeguard extension

    In the public notice issued on Friday, the revenue department said no conveyance deed or authorisation slip would be issued for applications received after the cut-off date.
    India News
    Published 14 days ago

    Delhi govt orders magisterial probe into Seemapuri building collapse; past inquiries flag failures

    Preliminary local inquiries have indicated that demolition work with heavy machinery at an adjoining unauthorised construction site may have triggered the collapse through vibrations.
    Cities
    Updated 14 days ago

    Police invoke culpable homicide charges in Harsh Vihar collapse case that killed 2

    Slabs of an under-construction building collapsed on Sunday late night in Harsh Vihar.
    India News
    Updated 17 days ago

    Harsh Vihar collapse: Families allege delayed rescue cost 2 men their lives

    NDRF carries out search and rescue operations following a building collapse at Milan Garden, Harsh Vihar on October 25.
    Cities
    Updated 18 days ago

    Harsh Vihar: Another building collapse linked to illegal construction claims two lives

    An excavator at the site as a rescue operation is underway after a slab of a house under construction collapsed in Harsh Vihar, northeast Delhi, on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026.
    Cities
    Published 18 days ago

    Contractor, his father dead in under-construction building collapse in Delhi's Harsh Vihar

    NDRF personnel at the site after a slab of a house under construction collapsed in Milan Garden in northeast Delhi's Harsh Vihar area, Sunday, October. 25, 2026.
    India News
    Published 18 days ago

    At least 2 feared trapped as under-construction building collapses in Delhi's Harsh Vihar

    New Delhi, Oct 25: Rescue and search operations underway after a slab of an under-construction house collapsed in the Milan Garden area near Seva Dham in Delhi's Harsh Vihar, in New Delhi on Sunday.
    India News
    Updated 19 days ago

    2 feared trapped after building collapses in North East Delhi

    Rescue operations underway at the collapse site. (ANI)
    Cities
    Updated 19 days ago

    Seemapuri collapse: Building owner yet to be traced, DNA test of body parts starts

    MCD demolished three buildings in New Seemapuri on Friday
    Cities
    Published 35 days ago

    Delhi Seemapuri building owner’s daughter among dead; toll rises to 4

    NDRF personnel and other teams conduct a rescue operation at the collapse site in Seemapuri.
    Cities
    Published 35 days ago

    Delhi building collapse that killed four highlights gaps in private demolition rules

    NDRF personnel and other teams conduct a rescue operation at the collapse site in Seemapuri on Thursday (Vipin Kumar/HT)
    Cities
    Updated 35 days ago

    4 dead in building collapse in Delhi's Seemapuri, culpable homicide case filed

    The building came down around 3.30pm on Thursday in the cramped lanes of New Seemapuri, trapping at least 11 people
    Cities
    Updated 36 days ago

    Seemapuri collapse: 3-year-old survives with minor injuries, mother among 5 dead

    Mourning family members at the site the collapse. (HT PHOTO)
    India News
    Published 36 days ago

    2 children, pregnant woman among 3 dead in Seemapur building collapse in Delhi

    A view of NDRF, Delhi Fire Service, Civil Defence and Delhi Police personnel carrying out rescue operations after a five-storey building collapsed in the Seemapuri area of New Delhi.
    Cities
    Updated 37 days ago

    'I want water': Pregnant woman's final call from under debris after Seemapuri building collapse

    The search for missing family members continued even as ambulances brought the rescued and injured to the hospital.
    Cities
    Updated 37 days ago

    Another Delhi building collapse, same-old script: How enforcement gap has failed to prevent mishaps

    A view of NDRF, Delhi Fire Service, Civil Defence and Delhi Police personnel carrying out rescue operations after a five-storey building collapsed in the Seemapuri area of New Delhi.
    Cities
    Updated 37 days ago
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