The workers’ prolonged confinement within the tunnel is raising serious concerns about their health. New Delhi: A rain forecast and temperatures dropping to 4 degrees Celsius pose additional hurdles in the ongoing rescue operations to free 41 construction workers trapped under a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi. The weather office has predicted snowfall in areas […]
Forty-one ambulances remain on standby at the tunnel’s entrance. New Delhi: The rescue operation to save 41 workers trapped in the collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district faced another hurdle Friday evening as drilling was halted once more. Here are 10 big points on the rescue operation: In an earlier press conference, senior officials had […]
Oscar Pistorius is appearing before a parole board at a correctional centre outside Pretoria (File) Pretoria, South Africa: South Africa’s ex-Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius on Friday sought an early release from prison, a decade after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, despite her mother telling his parole hearing that he had “not been rehabilitated”. Steenkamp’s mother […]
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha Secretariat has said replies to MP’s queries discussed in Parliament’s Question Hour are “strictly confidential till the question… has actually been asked and answered in the House”. In an order dated November 10, it also said if a question is not asked or answered in the allotted time, “the reply […]
Punjab recorded 637 and 740 farm fires on Saturday and Sunday (ANI) Chandigarh: Punjab on Monday reported 634 farm fires with farmers in many areas continuing to set ablaze paddy straw despite police making persistent efforts to prevent stubble burning. The Punjab Police said it has registered 1,084 FIRs against erring farmers and imposed penalties […]
Additional forces have been deployed in the area of the attack. Imphal: Two persons were killed in a gunfight between rival factions in a fresh round of violence in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district on Monday. The incident took place between Haraothel and Kobsha villages, police said. In response to the violence, a tribal organisation has claimed […]
Prakash Padukone watched the match in Ahmedabad with daughter Deepika New Delhi: Pictures of badminton legend Prakash Padukone with daughter and actor Deepika Padukone at the cricket World Cup final yesterday sparked an intense debate on social media. Several badminton fans flagged posts referring to Mr Padukone as “Deepika Padukone’s father”, pointing out that he […]
Myanmar’s junta and the People’s Defence Forces are fighting an intense battle Guwahati: The army’s Assam Rifles met with village chiefs and leaders of a civil society group in settlements in Mizoram near the border with Myanmar and discussed the situation in the neighbouring country, where the military junta is fighting insurgents of the People’s […]
Trudeau’s allegations have led to a diplomatic face-off between India and Canada New Delhi: In his fresh remarks on the diplomatic face-off with India, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that the world will become “more dangerous” for everyone “if bigger countries can violate international law without consequences”. Ties between New Delhi and Ottawa […]
Locals suspect that the duo, whose hometown is in Lamshang, was abducted by unidentified men. Imphal: Fresh tension gripped the state capital and its adjoining areas on Monday after two teenaged boys went missing from Imphal West district in Manipur. The two, identified as 16-year-old Maibam Avinash and 19-year-old Ningthoujam Anthony, had gone towards Sekmai […]
