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India has joined 100-metre building demolition club: Foreign brain behind Noida twin tower success

As per media sources, the Noida Authority has now turned its attention to the 100 or so similar buildings in the neighbourhood to see if they, too, were built in violation of the law in the aftermath of the twin tower demolition.

NEW DELHI -- Two high-rise apartment towers in India were leveled to the ground in a controlled demolition on Sunday after the country's top court declared them illegal for violating building norms, officials said. They became India's tallest structures to be razed.

A series of controlled explosions reduced the 100-metre tall structures to a huge pile of rubble. The once in a lifetime spectacle was witnessed by lakhs. Let's have a look at how the demolition process started and how it concluded.

Following the demolition of the Supertech twin towers in Noida, steps should be taken for regular air monitoring, and waste segregation to minimise environmental impacts, say environmentalists."The Supreme Court has reaffirmed the belief ...