Three workers killed in ceiling collapse at Chennai club

Three workers died, after being caught under the debris, when a concrete ceiling collapsed at Sekhmet Club in Alwarpet on Thursday evening.

Police sources said the staff of the club were busy with preparations for a grand party.

At 7 p.m., when the police control room received a message from the staff, senior police officials rushed rescue teams and Fire and Rescue Services personnel to the spot.

They managed to retrieve three persons caught under the debris and sent them to Government Royapettah Hospital where they were declared brought dead. Further investigation is on. ndia’s eight core sectors’ output growth spurted to a threemonth high of 6.7% in February, led by doubledigit upticks in coal, natural gas and cement even as fertilizers’ production fell 9.5% to record the sharpest contraction since May 2021.

January’s Index of Core Industries (ICI) was revised to reflect a 4.1% rise, compared with the previous estimate of 3.6%, but that remained the slowest growth in 15 months. This is the second month in a row that fertilizers’ output dipped yearonyear, and marks the first such streak in two years.

In absolute terms, overall output levels were at a threemonth low and 4.9%

Ibelow January’s levels, which had marked a tenmonth high. In sequential terms, the only segment to record an uptick over January’s production level was cement (up 1.74%).

In yearonyear terms, crude oil production grew at an alltime high pace of 7.9% in February, although that was aided by base effects as output had dropped 4.9% in the same month last year. Natural gas output grew 11.3%, which was the highest in two years. The upticks in February also marked a fourmonth peak for cement (10.2%), electricity (6.3%), and coal (11.6%).

While steel production growth eased slightly to 8.4% in February, refinery products recovered from a