Dehradun, Nov 20 (IANS) Even as hectic efforts are on to rescue the 41 trapped workers inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to enquire about the relief and rescue operations in Uttarkashi district.
Sydney, Nov 19 (IANS) Two former military planes on a training flight collided on Sunday over the Mornington Peninsula in Australia, sending one plummeting into the water, local media reported.
Jaipur, Nov 19 (IANS) At least six policemen were killed and one injured in Rajasthan's Churu district when the car they were travelling in collided with a truck on Sunday. The policemen were on way for the Prime Minister’s rally in Jhunjhunu.
Uttarkashi, Nov 16 (IANS) Three special aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Wednesday brought a 25-tonne heavy auger machine to speed up efforts to rescue 40 labourers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel of Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district, part of which collapsed after a landslide on Sunday.
Bhubaneswar, Nov 15 (IANS) As many as five persons have died in two separate road accidents in Koraput and Sundargarh districts of Odisha.
Jammu, Nov 15 (IANS) Thirty six people were killed and 19 injured on Wednesday in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district.
New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) In a bid to save his family from the blaze that broke out in a five-storey residential building in east Delhi's Laxmi Nagar, a desperate man wrapped his three-year-old son in a blanket and threw him down from the second-floor balcony building before jumping himself, along with his wife, and 12-year-old son.
Sanaa, Nov 14 (IANS) Dozens of migrants went missing and are feared dead after an overcrowded boat overturned near Yemen's coast, a government official has confirmed.
Uttarkashi, Nov 14 (IANS) Relief and rescue operations are underway after a portion of an under-construction tunnel on the Yamunotri National Highway in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district on Sunday collapsed due to a landslide. Nearly 40 workers have been trapped in the tunnel.
Hyderabad, Nov 13 (IANS) Monday's fire tragedy in an apartment complex in Hyderabad that snuffed out nine lives is the latest in a series of disasters to hit the city since September last year.
