{"id":310788,"date":"2019-03-24T06:17:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T06:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310788"},"modified":"2019-03-24T06:17:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T06:17:24","slug":"karnataka-death-toll-rises-to-16-in-dharwad-building-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-death-toll-rises-to-16-in-dharwad-building-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka: Death toll rises to 16 in Dharwad building collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-2-killed-over-40-trapped-as-under-construction-building-collapses-in-dharwad\/under-construction-build\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-310681\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310681 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/under-construction-build-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/under-construction-build-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/under-construction-build-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/under-construction-build-696x491.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/under-construction-build-596x420.jpg 596w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/under-construction-build.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a>The death toll in Karnataka&#8217;s\u00a0Dharwad building collapse\u00a0rose to 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On Saturday, the Karnataka government suspended seven corporation officials for negligence in connection to the building collapse that took place on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">While the four partners of Renuka Construction, the entity looking after the construction project, surrendered before the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On Thursday, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy had visited the site and told the media that many people were suspected to be trapped under the debris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Moreover, Kumaraswamy had said the district administration has already announced a magisterial inquiry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The rescue operation is being conducted jointly by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in Karnataka&#8217;s\u00a0Dharwad building collapse\u00a0rose to 16. On Saturday, the Karnataka government suspended seven corporation officials for negligence in connection to the building collapse that took place on Tuesday. While the four partners of Renuka Construction, the entity looking after the construction project, surrendered before the police. On Thursday, Karnataka Chief Minister HD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":310681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[11161,1552,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310790,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310788\/revisions\/310790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}