Rampant illegal construction, flouting of building norms without checking the bearing capacity of the city’s soil, needs to ...

The case of the tilted buildings first came to light on January 11, when one such structure in South Kolkata’s Bagha Jatin ...

The proverbial "joy" is steadily fading away from the faces of lower and middle-class families living in and around the City of Joy as reports of tilting low-budget high-rises continue to trickle in ...

Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided not to proceed with the demolition of the old building on Christopher Road that has tilte.

KOLKATA: A 237-year-old building on 9 Chowringhee Road, right in the heart of the city, has withstood earthquakes, weathered cyclones, and witnessed the changing course of Kolkata’s and India ...

Dhaval Jain, the municipal commissioner, highlights the need to strike a balance between 'community rights' of conserving heritage and the 'personal rights' of the owner of a building in a heritage pr ...

Borough executive engineers were asked to take stock of the condition of the insecure buildings following the partial collapse of five unsafe houses across the city in the past six days. Though the ...

A 15-year-old leeway by KMC allowing unsanctioned three-storey buildings has led to widespread illegal constructions in south Kolkata. Thousands of buildings, especially in the Tollygunge-Jadavpur ...

In an unfortunate incident, a building in Kolkata tilted during repair work ... On the same day, a portion of an old, one-storey building in a bustling marketplace collapsed in Navi Mumbai.

A four-storey building in Kolkata`s Baghajatin area, located in Vidyasagar Colony, collapsed on January 14 while it was under renovation. Fortunately, there were no casualties as the building had ...