Road Collapse

An 80-year-old woman was killed, and four others sustained injuries after a portion of a balcony of a four-storey residential building in south Mumbai came crashing down on Saturday, officials said.

A road collapsed in Gujarat's Ahmedabad today as the city witnessed heavy rain, disrupting traffic movement and inundating low-lying areas.

Heavy rain today caused a roof to collapse at the Delhi airport and led to a flood-like situation in various parts of the national capital.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday clarified that the construction of the bridge that collapsed in Bihar's Araria district was not undertaken by the Union Road Transport Ministry.

He stepped one foot down the crease and smashed the ball out of the park for a six. Then he collapsed and died. In a shocking incident in Thane's Mira Road area in Maharashtra, a man died while playing cricket.

A portion of National Highway 6, the arterial road connecting Assam, Meghalaya, and Mizoram, has collapsed near Meghalaya's Lumshnong as storms and rains triggered by Cyclone Remal caused landslides.

64-year-old Huang Jiandu knelt in the middle of the road to stop vehicles driving towards the sunken area.

A scaffolding beside a building that is several storeys high came crashing down on the road amid a severe dust storm in Mumbai today.

The incident is the latest in a string of deadly disasters to hit Guangdong in recent weeks. "19 people have been confirmed dead and 30 are receiving all-out emergency care in hospital", said CCTV.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a criminal probe targeting the container ship that crashed into a major road bridge in Baltimore last month, collapsing it and killing six people, US media reported Monday.

A ship carrying a giant crane was en route Thursday to the scene of the catastrophic bridge collapse over Baltimore harbor, as authorities warned of extensive work before the major US port can reopen.

Three people were killed as roof of the popular Sekhmet Bar collapsed in Chennai 's busy Chamiers Road in the Alwarpet area on Thursday.

A four-year-old girl died here on Monday after being buried in debris when a JCB engaged in road widening work hit a wall and it collapsed on an adjoining slum where the child was asleep, police said.

Following the building collapse, the adjacent road suffered damage, causing disruptions in traffic movement.

Rescue teams in Japan on Tuesday struggled to reach isolated areas hit by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day, with reports of more than 20 people dead in a disaster that toppled buildings and knocked out power to thousands of homes.

An 80-year-old woman was killed, and four others sustained injuries after a portion of a balcony of a four-storey residential building in south Mumbai came crashing down on Saturday, officials said.

A road collapsed in Gujarat's Ahmedabad today as the city witnessed heavy rain, disrupting traffic movement and inundating low-lying areas.

Heavy rain today caused a roof to collapse at the Delhi airport and led to a flood-like situation in various parts of the national capital.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday clarified that the construction of the bridge that collapsed in Bihar's Araria district was not undertaken by the Union Road Transport Ministry.

He stepped one foot down the crease and smashed the ball out of the park for a six. Then he collapsed and died. In a shocking incident in Thane's Mira Road area in Maharashtra, a man died while playing cricket.

A portion of National Highway 6, the arterial road connecting Assam, Meghalaya, and Mizoram, has collapsed near Meghalaya's Lumshnong as storms and rains triggered by Cyclone Remal caused landslides.

64-year-old Huang Jiandu knelt in the middle of the road to stop vehicles driving towards the sunken area.

A scaffolding beside a building that is several storeys high came crashing down on the road amid a severe dust storm in Mumbai today.

The incident is the latest in a string of deadly disasters to hit Guangdong in recent weeks. "19 people have been confirmed dead and 30 are receiving all-out emergency care in hospital", said CCTV.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a criminal probe targeting the container ship that crashed into a major road bridge in Baltimore last month, collapsing it and killing six people, US media reported Monday.

A ship carrying a giant crane was en route Thursday to the scene of the catastrophic bridge collapse over Baltimore harbor, as authorities warned of extensive work before the major US port can reopen.

Three people were killed as roof of the popular Sekhmet Bar collapsed in Chennai 's busy Chamiers Road in the Alwarpet area on Thursday.

A four-year-old girl died here on Monday after being buried in debris when a JCB engaged in road widening work hit a wall and it collapsed on an adjoining slum where the child was asleep, police said.

Following the building collapse, the adjacent road suffered damage, causing disruptions in traffic movement.

Rescue teams in Japan on Tuesday struggled to reach isolated areas hit by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day, with reports of more than 20 people dead in a disaster that toppled buildings and knocked out power to thousands of homes.