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Virar building collapse: Prior civic warning on structural repair ignored by builder, plot owner

India, Sept. 1 -- Five days after the collapse of Ramabai Apartment in Virar East claimed 17 lives, including that of a one-year-old girl, investigations have revealed that the Vasai-Virar City Munici... Read More


Vasai-Virar: Developers' playground, urban nightmare

India, Sept. 1 -- That Sinking Feeling MUMBAI: Just beyond the reach of Mumbai, the Vasai-Virar region remained, until quite recently, a picturesque idyll. It was hard to believe that a landscape of ... Read More


Builder arrested for creating fake permits, defrauding people of crores

India, Sept. 1 -- The director of Ostwal Builders Pvt. Ltd, was arrested on Sunday for allegedly defrauding several people by selling them flats with fake construction permits. According to the Econo... Read More


Debtor arrested 13 years after using fake gold to get rRs.r76L loan

India, Sept. 1 -- Nine years after a bank realised fake gold ornaments were used as collateral to secure loans, the Mira-Bhayandar-Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police arrested the absconding borrower on Saturda... Read More


City chokes for the second day as Maratha agitation continues

India, Aug. 31 -- For the second day in a row, Mumbai ground to a halt as over 25,000 Maratha protesters surged into the city on Friday, answering the call of activist Manoj Jarange-Patil, who began a... Read More


City chokes for second day as quota stir continues

MUMBAI, Aug. 31 -- For the second day in a row, Mumbai ground to a halt as over 25,000 Maratha protesters surged into the city on Friday, answering the call of activist Manoj Jarange-Patil, who began ... Read More


Nowhere to go: 28 families evacuated from Ramabai complex

India, Aug. 30 -- A day after the rescue effort concluded at the site of the collapsed Ramabai Apartments in Virar east, some residents milled around still in a daze while others hastened to vacate th... Read More


Virar building collapse: VVCMC issued notices to conduct structural audit in May

India, Aug. 30 -- A preliminary investigation by the Virar police in the collapse of one wing of Ramabai Apartments, which resulted in the death of 17 people, has revealed that the Vasai Virar City Mu... Read More


28 Ramabai Apts families move out

MUMBAI, Aug. 30 -- A day after the rescue effort concluded at the site of the collapsed Ramabai Apartments, some residents milled around still in a daze while others hastened to vacate the building co... Read More


VVCMC had asked Ramabai builder, landowner to do structural audit in May

MUMBAI, Aug. 30 -- A preliminary investigation by the Virar police in the collapse of one wing of Ramabai Apartments, which resulted in the death of 17 people, has revealed that the Vasai Virar City M... Read More