‘He was to come home for holidays’: Dreams cut short as Delhi building collapse kills two friends
Kapil, 28, was hopeful about making it to the coveted Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on Saturday after his interview had gone well. He gathered five of his friends for a small celebration at a canteen in Delhi’s Saidulajab area in the evening, his friends told news agency PTI. NDRF team conduct a rescue operation as the building collapsed in Saidulajab, Saket last night, in New Delhi, India, on Sunday, May 31, 2026. (Ishant Chauhan/ Hindustan Times) But celebration turned into tragedy when a multi-storey building collapsed and the debris crashed onto the tin-shed canteen that is frequented by students preparing for competitive examinations such as Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE). Kapil died, along with his friend Nalin Ray, both former students of Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology (MIT) in Bihar and later associated with a coaching institute in Delhi. Celebration turns into tragedy “Kapil had called his friends because his interview had gone very well. They were sitting together in the canteen when …









