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Man shows interest in Bengaluru PG as a potential tenant, gains access to room and allegedly steals two laptops, two chargers and ₹10,000 cash

Bengaluru PG theft news: A man pretending to be a tenant in a Bengaluru paying guest accommodation stole two laptops and cash. After agreeing to pay monthly rent, he left the owner claiming he needed rest. The owner returned to find the room ransacked and immediately alerted the police. The…

The Economic Times · Oct 2

Barclaycard Customer Gets Credit Card Bills That Aren't His—Bank Takes 13 Months to Fix 'Human Error'

Barclaycard blamed human error after a Manchester reader received another customer's emails and overdue payment notices for 13 months. It offered £200.

International Business Times UK · Sep 25

MCD demolishes 543 properties, seals 178 in 17 day crackdown after Satya Niketan building collapse

The enforcement action was carried out between September 6 and September 23, 2026, according to the affidavit filed on September 24 by MCD Executive Engineer (Building) Headquarters Ajay Kumar Jain in proceedings before the High Court. During the same period, the civic body issued 205 sealing show-cause notices and 98…

The Economic Times · Sep 25

‘Once they see the money, they keep building’: Inside Delhi’s PG ecosystem built on a hostel shortage

On the first floor of a building in the main market of Satya Niketan is a restaurant. The second floor houses a hotel. The third floor is locked. The fourth floor is a boys’ paying guest accommodation with five rooms, let out on double and triple occupancy. On the fifth,…

Newslaundry · Sep 12

Delhi PG crisis: Only 3 PG buildings out of 1,355 found 'visibly dangerous' in MCD survey, 9 found repairable

Municipal Corporation of Delhi survey identified three dangerous paying-guest buildings housing sixty-nine occupants. The civic body also found nine other buildings requiring major repairs and forty-nine needing minor repairs. Over the last four days, demolition action occurred at one hundred and eleven properties and eighty-eight were sealed. This intensified enforcement…

The Economic Times · Sep 10

No hostels, no enforcement: Decoding Delhi’s student housing crisis

This country keeps failing its students, whether they are in government schools far from the city or in expensive PGs in the capital.

Newslaundry · Sep 9

18-year-old Arpit Jai lost his life in Delhi PG collapse; his parents made a heartbreaking decision to donate his cornea so he can have a second life

Eighteen-year-old Arpit Jai had returned to Delhi after spending the Rakshabandhan holidays with his family in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, before the Satya Niketan PG building where he lived collapsed. Arpit, a second-year Delhi University student, was among seven people killed. Amid their grief, his family donated his corneas at AIIMS,…

The Economic Times · Sep 9

Satya Niketan building collapse: Delhi CM directs MCD to use bulldozers against illegal construction

In a major crackdown by the Delhi Government following the Satya Niketan building collapse that claimed seven lives, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to take strict action against illegal construction, including the use of bulldozers against illegal structures.

The Economic Times · Sep 9

Buried aspirations: Grieving families say, if this isn’t murder, what is? after losing CA and IAS aspirants to Satya Niketan PG disaster

A five-story paying-guest facility collapsed in Delhi's Satya Niketan, killing seven students. Many victims were young students returning home after festive celebrations and aspiring for bright futures. Families searched through rubble and monitored hospitals to claim their deceased children. The collapse occurred after commercial greed and a lack of enforcement…

The Economic Times · Sep 8

Delhi building collapse: PG operator, wife sent to judicial custody, son gets 2-day police remand

A Delhi court has sent a married couple to judicial custody following a building collapse. Their son was remanded to two days of police custody after the incident. Seven people died after the decades-old building collapsed in Satya Niketan on Sunday. The family is being probed for their role in…

The Economic Times · Sep 7