The bridge collapse in Morbi has brought shame to the fair name of Gujarat and the most shocking part was that no one from the govt apologized for the tragedy, Veteran Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday.
Gujarat High Court, which reopened post-Diwali vacation, on Monday took Suo moto of the Morbi mishap, and issued notices to officials including the Home department, asking to file a report of the incident after seven days. "We expect strict action from the state government," HC ordered.
Amidst the ongoing tussle between the Raj Bhavan and the Left government, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Monday threw an open challenge to the ruling CPI-M to attack him if they have guts and blamed the ruling disposition for the collapse of the entire constitutional machinery in the
On February 10 this year, a portion of the roof of the sixth floor of tower D in Chintels Paradiso Society in Sector 109, Gurugram collapsed in which two people were killed while half a dozen people were injured.
A portion of a 100-year-old building collapsed on the NSC Bose Road in the city last night and fell on pedestrians. The building had reportedly become weak due to days of rain that prompted it collapse.
Chief Officer of Morbi Nagar Palika Sandipsinh Zala, suspended over dereliction in the Morbi mishap, where a century-old bridge collapsed, sources said on Friday.
The ongoing search and rescue operation to find the missing person, after a 143-year-old suspension bridge collapsed into the Machchu river, has been completed.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Morbi district administration received the information that one person was missing in the tragedy but that information has been found to be untrue in the police verification, they added.
In a major turn in the Morbi bridge collapse case in Gujarat, the Additional Public Prosecutor of the case made a huge revelation, saying that a manager of the Oreva company cited " Act of God" in the court as a reason for the tragic mishap.
Out of nine persons arrested pertaining to the collapse of the century-old suspension bridge, killing over 130 people, Gujarat's Morbi Court Wednesday sent four people to police custody and remaining five into judicial custody till November 5.