Abhijit Pandey, director of West Bengal Fire and Emergency Services, said the under-construction building collapsed in the wee hours of Monday.

Calcutta: More than ten people were rescued in Kolkata late on Sunday evening after an under-construction building collapsed. According to the latest updates, the five-storey building collapsed in Hazari Mollah Bagan in the Garden Reach area in the early hours of Monday. The search is on for survivors trapped under the rubble.

West Bengal Fire and Emergency Services Director Abhijit Pandey said the under-construction building collapsed in the wee hours of Monday.

“A five-storey building (illegally constructed) collapsed at Hazari Mollah Bagan; Garden range; Metiabruz, KMC Ward No. 134,” West Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari posted from his X handle, adding that the particular area falls under Calcutta Mayor Firhad Hakim’s ‘citadel’.

Urging the Chief Secretary, Home Secretary and Kolkata Police Commissioner to involve the West Bengal State Disaster Management Team in the ongoing rescue and relief operation, Adhikari said: “I am receiving panicked calls about possible casualties. Please send any team that can help rescue the victims, be it firefighters, police or any other team.”

In the meantime, Calcutta Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal visited the spot and took stock of the rescue operation.

“Late on Sunday evening, a building under construction in the Garden Reach area collapsed. We saved a few people. The disengagement operation is still ongoing,” a police official said.

In a post on salvation and help.” “I get panicky phone calls about possible victims. Please send any team that can help in rescuing the victims, be it firefighters, police or any other team,” he said.

A five-storey building (illegally constructed) collapsed at Hazari Mollah Bagan; Garden range; Metiabruz, KMC Department No. 134.
This particular area falls under the so-called ‘citadel’ of the Honorable Mayor of Kolkata and the Minister of Municipal Affairs.

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According to locals who were the first responders, chunks of concrete fell from the building before it collapsed. There was a loud noise and a thick cloud of dust engulfed the area as the building collapsed. The debris fell on nearby slums in the densely populated area, they said.

“Although no one lived in the under-construction building, it collapsed onto the adjacent slums. We fear that many people are still trapped under the rubble,” said a local resident.

By Freddy Pawle for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 03:07 EDT, March 13, 2024 | Updated: 04:40 EDT, March 13, 2024

On March 11, an under-construction building in Nadiad’s Kheda collapsed. A rescue operation is underway.

Nadiade: An under-construction building collapsed in Gujarat’s Kheda on Monday. The rescue team rushed to the scene together with the police as soon as they received the emergency call. According to a report in ANI, a rescue operation is underway. According to Nadiad Municipality Chief Official Rudresh Hudad, two people were injured and taken to a hospital. “A house under construction collapsed. Two people were slightly injured and taken to hospital. A search operation is underway…,” he said.

#WATCH | Gujarat: An under-construction building collapsed in Nadiad, Kheda. A rescue operation is underway. Police and administration present on site. pic.twitter.com/HsTmYF8yrm

— ANI (@ANI) March 11, 2024

Police and administration are present on site and are assessing the rescue efforts.

According to initial reports, there were no direct casualties.

(Note: This is a developing story and further details will be added.)

RISHI Sunak’s flagship package to help millions of renters is on the brink of collapse, The Sun understands.

Whitehall insiders claim Conservative manifesto pledge to end “no-fault evictions” is on track failure as Michael Gove is being held to “ransom” by angry Tory MPs.

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Last month, the Housing Secretary pledged to pass the flagship tenant reform bill before this year’s general election.

But distraught officials have accused a backstabbing Tories, including some landlords, of refusing to compromise on the legislation.

Sources say the charges are against the bill is led by Totnes MP Anthony Mangnall.

A Whitehall source said: “It looks like the Renters Reform Bill could now collapse and the Tories risk breaking their manifesto pledge to end no-fault evictions.

“Officials are facing a total loss as both pro-landlord groups like the National Residential Landlords Association and pro-tenant groups like the Renters Reform Coalition want this bill passed as quickly as possible.

“It appears that a small group of MPs, led by Anthony Mangnall, are holding the bill to ransom.”

Mr Mangnall, who is not a landlord himself, stressed that he supports the abolition of no-fault evictions.

But he claimed a large number of Tories are furious about the bill which would ban fixed-term leases and replace them with periodic leases without an end date.

Ministers and rebels have reached a stalemate and insiders fear time will run out to bring the bill to the House of Commons – meaning it will fail.

Mr Mangnall said: “I want to amend the bill so as not to overturn it.

“My role as a legislator is to ensure that we pass sensible legislation. We have had constructive meetings with Michael Gove.

“It’s about finding the right balance.”

Tom Darling, campaign director at the Renters Reform Coalition, said: “Another delay to this legislation caused by an ungovernable group of Conservative MPs – many of whom are landowners.

“It is becoming clear that they are planning to undermine their own pledge to end no-fault evictions at the eleventh hour.

“The truth is that the Renters (Reform) Bill is the bare minimum that tenants need – we will not support a grubby deal between the government and the backers of landlords that is little better than the miserable status quo.”

A spokesperson for the Department for Levelling, Housing and Communities said: “Our historic Renters (Reform) Bill will deliver a fairer private rental sector for both tenants and landlords. It will abolish section 21 evictions – giving people greater security in their homes and empowering them to tackle bad practice.

“We continue to meet regularly with a range of groups representing all parties in the private rental sector.”

Kelly Ripa And Mark Consuelos witnessed a meltdown on their honeymoon.

During the Tuesday March 5 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, The cohosts and power couple recalled a story about an unnamed celebrity they saw raging at the hotel staff while on vacation.

“Mark and I were in a hotel with the children. I’m not going to mention the name, but there was a celebrity here and this celebrity was on their honeymoon,” said Ripa, 53. “This celebrity asked to speak to the manager.”

“She wasn’t happy,” Consuelos (52) chimed in.

Ripa continued, “This person said that because the room wasn’t up to standard, which by the way the rooms were beautiful, but something happened, and this person said it ruined her whole honeymoon. I thought, ‘She’s not going to like being married.’”

Consuelos teased that the groom “wouldn’t like being married either,” “because that’s a hard one.”

While the mystery couple may have had a problem on their honeymoon, Ripa and Consuelos have apparently had better luck with their marriage.

Last month, the couple recreated a photo from their May 1996 wedding, almost 28 years after they tied the knot in Las Vegas.

“Viva Las Vegas Then Now,” Ripa wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, Feb. 28, alongside a throwback photo of the duo standing nose-to-nose on their special day and a contemporary photo of them recreating the same pose in the chapel where they exchanged vows.

During a February segment of Live with Kelly and Markthat the couple began organizing together in April 2023, Consuelos told his wife that “some of those feelings came back” and that he “started sweating” as he drove to the chapel.

“We were 25 years old,” he added. “Our son [Michael] is 26. It doesn’t make sense. In a city where people here roll the dice every day, this is one of the safest bets I’ve made.”

Ripa, who also shares daughter Lola, 22, and son Joaquin, 21, with Consuelos, previously opened up about the couple’s initial choice to keep their marriage hidden from their parents. All my children costars.

“We worked together and we didn’t want it to appear that we couldn’t work together,” Ripa said on the daytime show in February, noting that they were able to keep the secret under wraps for months. ‘No one there [All My Children] knew we were even dating, let alone married to each other.”

Although the beginning of their marriage was shrouded in mystery, Ripa and Consuelos now openly celebrate their affection for each other. In September 2023, the pair got flirty on air while discussing the Max reality series Naked attractionwhere participants judge potential romantic partners based on their unclothed bodies.

Ripa wondered if the exercise would have worked for her and Consuelos, asking if he would have liked “even the parts” of her body “that aren’t really visible” as she gestured to her breasts.

“They were obvious,” Consuelos teased.

“You know what, I might not have gotten past the feet. The feet may have eliminated you,” she joked. “What a gift I would have given up, because [you have] so many other gifts, but the feet are hard to look past.

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By Pranav Harish for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 10:49 PM EST, March 3, 2024 | Updated: 11:22 PM EST, March 3, 2024

ROY HODGSON plans to stay in football and is looking for a consultancy job – possibly abroad.

Hodgson, 76, left his role as Crystal Palace manager after a training ground collapse but is not yet done with the game.

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The former England and Liverpool boss will look to continue working off the pitch.

And he would like to have a crack in another country and has extensive experience in Sweden and Italy.

Hodgson’s reputation is high in the coaching world and he could receive offers soon.

Insiders reveal Hodgson played a key role in the team selection for Monday’s 1-1 draw with Everton, ahead of his medical tragedy.

Goalkeeper Sam Johnstone returned to the team and Odsonne Edouard was named for Matheus Franca.

Both subs were lined up in preparation for the match before he left.

Palace started their post-Hodgson era with a 3-0 win over Burnley today.

It was Austrian boss Oliver Glasner’s first game in charge of the Eagles.

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He didn’t deviate too far from Hodgson’s plans in terms of selection, keeping Sam Johnstone in the squad over former Manchester United keeper Dean Henderson.

Edouard also kept his place in the side above Franca, playing on the left of goalkeeper Jean-Philippe Mateta.

By winning his first game in charge, Glasner became the first Palace manager to do so since Alan Pardew, who did so in 2015.

In the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow, humanity is plunged into a nightmarish international storm that plunges the planet into a new ice age.

And while the blockbuster was relegated to the realm of science fiction, the science behind this terrifying scenario is true.

Within a few years, melting glaciers could shut down the Gulf Stream — the current system that brings heat to the Northern Hemisphere, experts say.

Without this additional heat source, average temperatures in North America, parts of Asia and Europe could drop by several degrees, and people would see “severe and cascading impacts around the world.”

Scientists are warning that an abrupt halt to Atlantic Ocean currents appears more likely than ever as computer simulations show a 'cliff-like' tipping point looms in the near future.

The study's authors, from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, don't know exactly when the collapse will occur, although an earlier study suggests it will happen as soon as next year.

“We are getting closer to collapse, but we are not sure how much closer,” said lead author Rene van Westen, a climate scientist and oceanographer at Utrecht University.

'We are heading towards a tipping point.'

When a global weather disaster like the one in The Day After Tomorrow could occur, Van Westen says it's “the million dollar question.”

'Unfortunately we cannot answer that [that] right now,” he said.

'It also depends on the speed of climate change that we as humanity are causing.'

The Gulf Stream is part of a much broader system of currents, officially called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC.

Described as 'the conveyor belt of the ocean', it transports warm water near the ocean's surface north – from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere.

When the warm water reaches the North Atlantic Ocean (around Europe and the UK, and the east coast of the US), it releases heat and freezes.

As this ice forms, salt remains in the ocean water.

The large amount of salt in the water makes it denser, sinks and is carried south into the depths below.

Eventually, the water is drawn back to the surface and heats up in a process called upwelling, completing the cycle.

Scientists think AMOC brings enough heat to the Northern Hemisphere that without it, large parts of Europe could end up in a deep freeze.

Previous studies have already shown that AMOC is slowing down due to climate change.

The engine of this conveyor belt is off the coast of Greenland, where as more ice melts due to climate change, more freshwater flows into the North Atlantic Ocean and everything slows down.

The new study predicts that an abrupt closure of the AMOC could occur in the coming decades, rather than in the coming centuries as previously thought.

The researchers designed a computer model simulation in which they could measure a sudden weakening of the ocean circulation.

The simulation introduced fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean, and as a result the circulation strength gradually decreased until it reached a critical 'tipping point' and collapsed.

According to the results, Europe's climate will cool by about 1°C per decade, with some regions even experiencing more than 3°C of cooling per decade – much faster than current global warming of about 0.36 F ( 0.2 C) per decade.

Apart from sending countries into a deep freeze, this would expand Arctic ice further south, further increase heat in the Southern Hemisphere, alter global rainfall patterns and disrupt the Amazon rainforest.

Other scientists say it would be a catastrophe that could cause global food and water shortages.

“We found that once the tipping point is reached, the conveyor belt stops within a hundred years,” the authors said.

'Heat transport towards the north is greatly reduced, leading to abrupt climate shifts.'

The only thing they couldn't identify is when exactly this tipping point will be reached, even if it will take at least decades, if not longer.

“The research makes a compelling case that the AMOC is approaching a tipping point based on a robust, physically based early warning indicator,” said Tim Lenton, chair of climate change at the University of Exeter, who was not involved in the study.

“What it cannot (and does not) say is how close the tipping point is, because it shows there is insufficient data to make a statistically reliable estimate of that.”

The research has been published in the journal Scientific progress.