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08/09/2026

Students in Delhi's Satya Niketan are vacating their hostel rooms, days after a five-storey building, housing a boy's PG collapsed here, claiming at least seven lives.

08/09/2026

Narrow lanes, low hanging wires surround Satya Niketan, as students complain of dire living conditions and safety concerns even after paying extremely high rent.

08/09/2026

A Delhi University student says he narrowly escaped the Satya Niketan building collapse after he travelled to Haryana to visit his family. He had moved into the hostel just two months earlier because living in Lajpat Nagar was too expensive.

08/09/2026

While ‘Hostel Daze’, which was operating a boys’ PG in the building that collapsed in Delhi’s Satya Niketan, has removed all its hoardings from buildings, students living in the area are either leaving for home or finding alternative accommodation. Those who cannot afford to move continue to live there, saying they “have no choice”.

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