Construction Workers

A 48-year-old man was killed after cement bricks fell on him at a construction site in Thane district of Maharashtra, police said on Monday.

When Pakistan's national sports board was deciding who to finance among the seven athletes bound for Paris Olympics, only Arshad Nadeem and his coach were deemed good enough for funds.

Altogether 17 Indian workers engaged in road construction in Bangladesh and stranded due to the ongoing unrest were evacuated by the BSF, an official said on Thursday.

The Chief Minister also launched a portal for the Shramik Basera scheme.

The stretch is the same on which a gantry crane collapsed in August last year, killing several workers involved in the construction of the expressway.

Tragedy struck at a construction site in Balmatta area here on Wednesday as one worker died and another was critically injured when they were trapped in a pit after loose soil fell on them, officials said.

The bodies of three labourers were on Saturday pulled from the rubble of a wall that collapsed at a construction site in the Vasant Vihar area in south Delhi amid heavy rain, officials said.

As the peak power demand breached the 8000 MW mark in Delhi for the first time ever on 29 May, the city refused to let the heat drag it down. While it was business as usual for air conditioned offices, it is a different story for blue collar workers.

In the video, Ms Sharma visits a construction site in the national capital and asks workers if they would like to have some buttermilk.

Several parts of India grappled with unusually high temperatures this week, forcing schools to close and hospitals to create special units to treat heat-related illnesses, while workers on construction sites were given a "paid holiday" in the afterno

The body of the sixth and final victim who died after a container ship struck a bridge in the US city of Baltimore has been recovered, Maryland state authorities said Tuesday.

A multi-storey building under construction in South Africa's coastal city of George collapsed on Monday trapping about 48 workers in the rubble, the city hall said.

In the middle of a raging Gaza conflict and escalating tensions between Israel and Iran due to recent attacks, the question of the safety and security of Indian construction workers looms large.

More than 6,000 Indian workers will arrive in Israel during April and May to help the country's construction sector meet a labour shortage following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

India on Thursday said it has urged Israel to ensure the safety of the Indian construction workers who have gone to the country this week under the framework of a bilateral mobility agreement.

A 48-year-old man was killed after cement bricks fell on him at a construction site in Thane district of Maharashtra, police said on Monday.

When Pakistan's national sports board was deciding who to finance among the seven athletes bound for Paris Olympics, only Arshad Nadeem and his coach were deemed good enough for funds.

Altogether 17 Indian workers engaged in road construction in Bangladesh and stranded due to the ongoing unrest were evacuated by the BSF, an official said on Thursday.

The Chief Minister also launched a portal for the Shramik Basera scheme.

The stretch is the same on which a gantry crane collapsed in August last year, killing several workers involved in the construction of the expressway.

Tragedy struck at a construction site in Balmatta area here on Wednesday as one worker died and another was critically injured when they were trapped in a pit after loose soil fell on them, officials said.

The bodies of three labourers were on Saturday pulled from the rubble of a wall that collapsed at a construction site in the Vasant Vihar area in south Delhi amid heavy rain, officials said.

As the peak power demand breached the 8000 MW mark in Delhi for the first time ever on 29 May, the city refused to let the heat drag it down. While it was business as usual for air conditioned offices, it is a different story for blue collar workers.

In the video, Ms Sharma visits a construction site in the national capital and asks workers if they would like to have some buttermilk.

Several parts of India grappled with unusually high temperatures this week, forcing schools to close and hospitals to create special units to treat heat-related illnesses, while workers on construction sites were given a "paid holiday" in the afterno

The body of the sixth and final victim who died after a container ship struck a bridge in the US city of Baltimore has been recovered, Maryland state authorities said Tuesday.

A multi-storey building under construction in South Africa's coastal city of George collapsed on Monday trapping about 48 workers in the rubble, the city hall said.

In the middle of a raging Gaza conflict and escalating tensions between Israel and Iran due to recent attacks, the question of the safety and security of Indian construction workers looms large.

More than 6,000 Indian workers will arrive in Israel during April and May to help the country's construction sector meet a labour shortage following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

India on Thursday said it has urged Israel to ensure the safety of the Indian construction workers who have gone to the country this week under the framework of a bilateral mobility agreement.