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On 13 May 2024, a large billboard measuring 120x120 ft in the Ghatkopar suburb of Mumbai, collapsed following heavy rains. [3] 17 people were killed and more than 75 were injured. [4] The billboard crashed onto a petrol station, crushing vehicles and people who had taken shelter from the rains. [1]
On 13 May 2024, a large hoarding in Ghatkopar region collapsed on a fuel station, killing 17 and injuring 74; two of the dead were relatives of actor Kartik Aaryan. [ citation needed ] An investigation revealed that the hoarding was illegal, although it was approved by BMC engineers, which sparked accusations of corruption, bribery and ...
Mumbai hoarding collapse: 17 people are killed and 74 others are injured after an illegal hoarding collapses onto a gas station during a storm in the Ghatkopar suburb of Mumbai. [70] 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. 19 May – A controversy breaks out over the killing of two IT professionals in the 2024 Pune Porsche car crash.
The problem of undercounting resonates in the Indian state of Gujarat, the site of a mammoth debacle that was supposed to transform the World Bank’s approach to development and displacement. In 1985, the bank pledged $450 million to finance the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal, the keystone of an effort to turn the Narmada River into a series of ...
Structural collapses in India killed 8,756 people between 2018–2022, at the rate of about five people a day. The collapses of residential buildings account for most of the deaths. Delhi had the highest amount of structural collapse related deaths (133) from 2018−2022 out of the union territories, and Uttar Pradesh (1,696) and Maharashtra ...
Hoarding behavior is a common response to fear, whether fear of imminent societal collapse or a simple fear of a shortage of some good. Civil unrest or natural disasters may lead people to collect foodstuffs, water, gasoline, generators, and other essentials which they believe, rightly or wrongly, may soon be in short supply.
Hoarding can run in families, and it may be possible genetics play a role in developing hoarding behaviors. [16] Also, this behavior can be developed due to life circumstances such as difficult losses, depression , financial crises , and living small which make it difficult for people to get rid of their belongings.
In Kenya, the World Bank's in-house Inspection Panel found the bank violated its policies by failing to do enough to protect the Sengwer, an indigenous minority group in Kenya's western forests. Over the past decade, the World Bank has regularly failed to enforce its