West Leeds, a vibrant area with multiple council wards, continues to see steady activity in urban development, as reflected in the latest batch of planning applications and decisions published by Leeds City Council for the week ending 27 April 2025. These planning updates offer a revealing...
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It was in the early hours before dawn that chaos gripped a quiet suburb northeast of New Delhi—a neighborhood brimming with the anonymous ambitions of India’s millions of migrant workers—when a four-storey residential building, still under construction, collapsed with a violence so abrupt, it...
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