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All 41 workers rescued from Uttarakhand tunnel after 16-day ordeal; taken to local health centre
The 41 labourers were stranded after a portion of the Silkyara tunnel on the Silkyara-Dandalgaon route, being built to facilitate the Chardham Yatra route, collapsed on November 12 on Diwali day.
First visuals of stuck workers; horizontal drilling prime option – Uttarkashi tunnel
Anurag Jain, secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, said that under the current circumstances “vertical drilling is the second best option”.
Magnitude 6.7 quake shakes southern Philippines
There were no immediate reports of casualties but the quake was felt across a wide area of the mountainous island.
Gaza hospital strike that killed hundreds; contradictory claims
Hamas says the damage came from an Israeli air strike, the Israeli avers; 'militants from another Islamist group -- Islamic Jihad -- had caused the explosion with a misfired rocket'
Air India, SpiceJet flights to bring Indians trapped in war-hit Israel
On Saturday morning, an Air India flight AI 140 returned to the national capital with 235 Indians from Israel.
Six women rescued from a refrigerated truck in France after distress call to BBC reporter
The women, four Vietnamese and two Iraqis, hid for hours in a truck loaded with boxes of bananas in northern France, believing the vehicle was on its way to the UK or Ireland.
FIR against Anand Mahindra, 12 others on charge of false promise over safety of SUV
The case was lodged after the complainant, who lost his son Dr. Apoorv Mishra in an accident on January 14 last year, approached a local court to get the order for lodging the case on Saturday.
Proverbially speaking: Lessons on Political Labyrinth
Quotation books are full of advisories concretised into eye-catching single liners. Gullible folks then try to put these to practice, not always getting helpful results. There are occasions when the advice works more effectively when stood…
Death toll from Morocco quake crosses 1000, heritage buildings in Marrakesh sustain damages
The quake was the biggest at 6.8 Richter scale to hit Morocco in 120 years.
People rescued from Gurugram fire: South Korean Embassy
NEW DELHI: The South Korean Embassy on Friday said the seven people rescued by firefighters from a flat in Gurugram were from the Korean Association. Earlier, a Gurugram fire officer had said the people rescued from the sector 28 apartment…
HP rain fury: Death toll over past week climbs to 78
Since the onset of the monsoon in Himachal Pradesh on June 24, 338 people have died in rain-related incidents and road accidents while 38 people are reported missing.
Monsoon rain widens cracks in Joshimath, five families shifted to relief camps
GOPESHWAR: Widening cracks in subsidence-hit Joshimath during the monsoon prompted authorities to shift five families to relief camps.
Admitting that land-subsidence in areas declared unsafe earlier this year seems to have been aggravated…
Himachal witnesses highest single-day loss of lives as rain wreaks havoc
CHANDIGARH: At least 50 people were killed in Himachal Pradesh on Monday — 14 of them buried under rubble in two landslips, including one at a temple — as rains wreaked havoc, triggering landslides, washing away bridges and flattening…
Six tourists die, 11 injured in Sikkim avalanche
GANGTOK: A major avalanche in Tsongmo, a popular tourist destination in Sikkim, has left six tourists dead and injured 11 others, according to multiple reports.
The avalanche at the 14th milestone on Jawaharlal Nehru Marg connecting…
Mexican Migration center death toll reaches 39
Mexico City: The number of people who died in a fire in a migration center in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez at the border with the United States, has risen to 39, with 29 others injured, the Mexican migration service has said.
"The…
Mumbai seaman back home after 14 months in Iran’s Chabahar jail
MUMBAI: 'Angels do dwell on earth.' A Worli resident Aniket Yenpure (30) says so. The merchant navy employeeis back home from Iran after over three years — of which he spent 14 months in jail in the foreign land after narcotics were…
India Hands Over 6-Tonne Relief Materials To Earthquake-Hit Syria
New Delhi: India on Wednesday handed over six tonnes of relief materials, including essential medicines and medical equipment, to earthquake-hit Syria. The consignments were sent on a C-130J military transport aircraft on Tuesday night…
Fury, Grief and Questions as Turkey Earthquake Deaths near 25,000
Ankara: Rescuers pulled children and the elderly from the rubble Saturday as miraculous survival stories coincided with hasty mass burials five days after an earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, leaving nearly 25,000 dead.…
Turkish Prez Erdogan admits ‘Shortcomings’ as Over 12,000 Killed in serial Earthquakes
Antalya: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday conceded "shortcomings" after criticism of his government's response to the massive earthquake that has killed over 12,000 people in Turkey and Syria.
The sprawling scale of…
Massive Turkey-Syria Quake that Killed Over 11,700 leaves horrible traces
Antalya, Turkey: Heartrending scenes of a newborn plucked alive from the rubble and a broken father clutching his dead daughter's hand have laid bare the human cost of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey that by Wednesday had claimed…