News Update: 19 July 2007
1) Presidential Poll Today: The high profile presidential elections began today. All MPs and MLAs will vote to choose the successor of incumbent Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. According to PTI sources. AIADMK might vote for the NDA-backed BS Shekhawat. National Conference will vote for the UPA candidate Pratibha Patil. The numbers are clearly in favor of Pratibha Patil and she is all set to become the next President of India.2) Mumbai Building Collapse: The death toll in the Mumbai building collapse reached 23. 11 women and 2 children were among those dead in the incident. The death toll is expected to rise, as many are still trapped under the debris.
3) Blueline menace Continues: There is no let up in the accidents involving the blueline buses. In a gruesome incident, a blueline bus crushed a 40-year old man in Delhi.
4) Amitabh "donates" Farm Lands: In order to escape from the legal tangles, superstar Amitabh Bachchan donated the land in Pune to the Maharashtra government and the Barabanki land to the village committee (Gramsabha).
5) Suicide Attack in Pakistan: Militants are on rampage in Pakistan aftermath the Lal Masjid crackdown. In a fresh attack by the militants, at least 49 people were killed in separate blasts in Sindh and NWFP. It can be recalled that at least 10 people were killed when a suicide bomber exploded himself at a lawyers' meet on Tuesday.
6) No Bail for Monica Bedi: Monica Bedi, who cherished her acquittal by a Bhopal court a couple of days ago, failed to get bail from a Hyderabad court, as she could not produce her original passport in the court.
posted by Admin @ 7:57 AM
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Which other building in the city is now going to become rubble and kill its occupants after Laxmi Chaya? It’s a well-known fact that most of the buildings in the city — old or new — have not remained untouched by illegal alterations. A pillar demolished here, a wall broken down there — it’s all in a day’s work for the residents and their interior designers. All you need to do is grease the palms of the authorities.
Is the government waiting for such buildings to collapse? It will shell out lakhs of rupees after the crash from tax payers’ money as compensation to the victims instead of taking precautions in the first place.
The Panchratna Building in south Mumbai has been in the news for such rampant alterations for years now. But neither the government nor the BMC has taken any action to correct this.
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