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Crushed dreams: The 5 small-town boys who loved Delhi until it took their lives
September 17, 2026 11:21 am
They came from Auraiya, Dewas, Durg, Katni, Jhansi — 17-19 year-olds who thought Delhi would help them spread their wings far beyond their small towns. Until, one day, the big city came crashing down on them.
Mehbooba Mufti writes | The 80-20 Hindu-Muslim political game is making losers of us all
September 14, 2026 4:12 pm
The real danger is not simply that India will remain divided into 80 and 20. It is that while the 20 per cent learns to navigate the politics of polarisation, the 80 per cent remains silent as governance itself collapses around them. And when that happens, the victims will no longer be Hindu or Muslim
In Delhi University students' union polls, student housing takes centre stage after hostel collapse
September 14, 2026 10:31 am
The Congress-backed National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) is scheduled to release its manifesto on Monday.
After Satya Niketan, the rebuilding of the city must begin
September 14, 2026 12:11 am
Will builders merely build higher with more unauthorised floor space, and endanger more lives? Or, is it time to seek thoughtful and radical alternatives? Is there space in the municipal mind for new ideas?
Exclusive: Hours before Delhi hostel collapse, a worker hit a panic button
September 12, 2026 7:53 am
Police said a labourer told the operator that the building won’t be able to take the load of the construction work in the basement.
What has made Delhi so indifferent to the humanity of Dilliwallahs?
September 13, 2026 8:00 am
Recent tragedies, from the Satya Niketan building collapse to the killing of a musician from Manipur force us to ask a difficult question: Does Delhi really welcome all?
Delhi hostel manager rushed to collapse site, fled fearing students: Police
September 09, 2026 11:15 pm
According to police, Sudhanshu graduated from DU in 2019 and started Hostel Daze in 2022.
‘I can’t live with the fear of dying’: Students leave PGs in collapsed Delhi hostel locality
September 09, 2026 8:39 pm
After Sunday’s collapse in South Delhi's Satya Niketan killed seven people, including five DU students, MCD officials asked residents of 10-15 nearby structures to vacate while buildings were cleared for demolition.
Satya Niketan tragedy and the normalisation of planning failure
September 09, 2026 5:08 pm
All too often, the state has tolerated commercial activity informally, licensed it in fragments, collected charges around it, and then treated the same ecosystem as wholly illegal when something goes wrong
‘Assault on public safety’: Calcutta High Court upholds illegal building convictions
September 09, 2026 12:18 pm
The court was hearing a criminal revision challenging the developer’s three-month sentence and the owner’s sentence till the rising of the court, with a Rs 50,000 fine each.
BUILDING COLLAPSE PHOTOS
In pictures | Jordan building collapse kills 5, at least 10 missing
September 14, 2022 9:13 pm
The four-story residential building collapsed on Tuesday for reasons that remain unclear. The country's prime minister has ordered an investigation.
Building collapses in Solan, 13 Army personnel among 14 dead
July 15, 2019 3:21 pm
The building collapsed around 3.50 pm near the Kumarhatti-Nahan highway in Solan. A search and rescue operation has been launched by the authorities.
Greater Noida building collapse: Several people buried, nine bodies recovered
July 19, 2018 12:48 pm
Two buildings with one being under construction-collapsed in Shahberi Village in Greater Noida Tuesday night leaving three people dead. Eyewitnesses said that a four-storey building fell on a six storey under-construction building around 8.45 pm. The death toll is likely to increase.
Multi-storey building collapses in West Delhi’s Vishnu Garden; many feared trapped
July 19, 2015 10:08 am
Two people were killed, while eight others, including some children, injured when a five-storey building collapsed in West Delhi’s Vishnu Garden area on Saturday evening.
Two dead as under-construction building collapses in North Delhi
June 01, 2014 9:12 pm
Two persons were killed while 11 others were injured when a three storey under-construction building collapsed on Sunday afternoon in Sadar Bazar area in north Delhi.
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