Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake killed seven people in eastern Turkey late Wednesday, less than three weeks after a massive quake killed more than 600 in the same area, a government disaster management centre said. Twenty-three people were found alive from the wreckage and seven lost their lives during the quake, …
Concrete buildings in city adding to threat Shillong: Last month’s devastating earthquake, which shook Sikkim and the whole of North East and north India, has raised many questions amongst the people of the State over construction of concrete houses and buildings. In the past 30 years, Shillong has transformed from …
Aizawl/Agartala, Sep 23 (IANS): Authorities in Mizoram and Tripura, given the high vulnerability of India's mountainous northeast to earthquakes, are becoming stricter in enforcing official guidelines on the construction of concrete houses and structures. The Geological Survey of India had earlier notified that the northeastern region could experience a devastating …
With six more deaths reported from several areas today, the toll in the powerful earthquake rose to eight in Bihar, official sources said. While Darbhanga accounted for four deaths, one each was killed in Nawada, Nalanda, Bhagalpur and Sheorhar districts. Among those killed in Darbhanga district, one woman drowned when …
LUCKNOW: The Sunday earthquake, which jolted almost the entire north India, has once again raised questions on the safety aspect of the city's multi-storied buildings. Lucknow Development Authority and Uttar Pradesh Housing and Development Board ( UPHDB) make earthquake resistance a mandatory criterion for a building. However, the authorities rarely …
Vertical growth helps economies, say some urban planners. But do we have proper building codes in place? Ravi Teja Sharma finds out THE SIGHT of some of the tallest buildings in Tokyo
N. Gopal Raj Haiti, where 2,30,000 people are thought to have perished in an earthquake in January, has heightened the concerns of our seismologists and engineers.
Hong Kong: Researchers in Japan have designed a superelastic iron alloy which they hope can be used in sophisticated heart and brain surgeries and even buildings in earthquake zones. In a paper published on Friday in the journal Science, the researchers said the metal
Deepa H Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management, Anna University, will soon take up seismic risk evaluation of big private buildings, including residential complexes in the city. This would be done using the Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) Technique. The Centre
Anna University Vice-Chancellor P. Mannar Jawahar handing over a guide on seismic risk evaluation of buildings to Chief Engineer (General) of PWD S. Jayaraman at a function in Chennai on Thursday. CHENNAI: The Public Works Department (PWD) is all set to make a seismic risk evaluation of the government buildings …
CHENNAI: Construction of 19,765 disaster-resistant houses in the coastal districts of the State has begun, Finance Minister K. Anbazhagan said here on Tuesday. Work on 1,976 houses had been completed. This is part of a two-phase project to build 41,411 houses to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities. A total …
Ahmedabad/Bhuj: The new jail in this town on the Indo-Pak border is finally ready. The 100-year-old Bhuj jail had collapsed in the January 26 quake of 2001 and more than 150 inmates, including six Pakistanis, booked for smuggling RDX into Gujarat, had escaped. Nobody can forget the dramatic escapade, when …
RAMANATHAPURAM: Monsingh D. Devadas, Dean, School of Architecture, Anna University, Chennai, has stressed the importance of constructing buildings particularly multi-storey only by following seismic safety standards in order to minimise the damage from the earthquake related disasters. Inaugurating a six-day national workshop on
Famous geologist Dr. M K Khanna said here that unsafe buildings in our country are more responsible for death than earthquake in our country. We cannot stop the earthquakes in future. But we can definitely limit the death and damage to buildings through earthquake resistant construction. Dr Khanna was addressing …
Students of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, have designed a brand new rehabilitation shelter that can be constructed quickly in the event of an earthquake or any such disaster. Five third-year students of the Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering Departments have built the structure primarily for earthquake-hit people. It can …
Often termed as poor man's timber, bamboo, with its various new applications can well be an alternative housing solution for the earthquake prone areas due to its high tensile strength structurally. Exploring the use of bamboo as an alternative to the rapidly depleting wood resources in housing and other industrial …
