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NK SINGH Bhopal: Over two dozen labourers, including women and children, were feared buried alive when a 40-foot span of a bridge under construction on a busy thoroughfare here collapsed on Monday. Special army and fire brigade rescue teams. helped by local volunteers, had rescued about six persons, including the construction contractor. from the debris by late night. Except the contractor, all of them are in a bad shape. The authorities were unable to say anything about the fate of the persons buried under the debris. It is feared that most of them were killed. Removing the debris was proving an uphill task although cranes were pressed into service. A crowd of over 5,000 persons had assembled around the collapsed bridge by late night. March 4, 1985 Indian Express
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Mr N. K. Singh is a journalist with four decades of experience in the print media. He was the Resident Editor of Hindustan Times and Indian Express and State Head of Dainik Bhaskar.
He was for 14 years with India Today, where he worked as an Associate Editor.
He has worked with Nai Dunia, Peoples Samachar, The Hitavada, Secular Democracy and Pratipaksh.
During his long career, Mr Singh has written extensively. His articles and reports have appeared in several prestigious journals and newspapers like Economic & Political Weekly, Times of India, Seminar, Mainstream, Frontier, Far Eastern Economic Review, Illustratred Weekly of India, Sunday, Ravivar and Jansatta.
He has also authored three booklets on communal issue.
Mr Singh wrote commentary for a film on Bhopal gas tragedy produced by BBC. He was also associated as a journalist with three other documentaries produced by BBC and Granada TV on Bhopal gas tragedy. One of these documentaries won a gold at New York Film Festival.
Mr Singh has worked in New Delhi, Rajasthan and Gujarat, although Bhopal happens to be his base, his karmabhoomi, since 1974.
This website is an attempt to capture some of his work in print media, TV and digital space. It takes care to give hyperlinks so that readers may navigate to other digital properties for better understanding as well as for reference.
This website carries the hallmark of a Print Journalist -- Credibility.
You may contact NK Singh on nksexpress@gmail.com

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