Seven years later, the trial is yet to start Mumbai: “Mumma, where is Papa?,” seven-year-old Preesha often asks her mother. For Preesha, her father, Shailesh Mishra, is a figure stitched together from photographs and videos. She was just seven months old when Shailesh, a financial advisor, was killed in a road crash caused by an…
Fire officers, according to fire authorities, often lack clear powers to enter and inspect premises solely to verify whether a building is fire-safe. Without inspection authority, enforcement becomes reactive, dependent on complaints or post-incident inquiries, rather than preventive risk reduction Mysuru: Gaps in fire safety enforcement in Karnataka have come into focus after the recent…
Mumbai: A 29-year-old man fell to his death from the 18th floor of an under-construction building at Goregaon West recently. Police registered an FIR against the contractor and developer for putting him up on the 18th floor without any precautionary measures for his safety. In another incident, a 32-year-old labourer died after he fell from…
