Amidst the massive influx of devotees at Mahakumbh, the Uttar Pradesh Police, along with PAC, NDRF, SDRF, and Fire Department personnel, demonstrated exceptional honesty and commitment to duty.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami visited the disaster control room on Friday evening to assess the situation and directed officials to speed up the rescue operation in the state following the avalanche that trapped 52 Border Roads Organisation (BRO) workers.
A 20-member rescue team comprising rat miners and NDRF and SDRF personnel was, though able to reach the last point of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel last night, returned empty handed unable to locate anyone among the eight trapped workers.
The rescue mission, meticulously planned to address the delicate and time-sensitive crisis, involves close coordination with civil administration for real-time updates.
The Central Government on Monday declared the Wayanad landslide a disaster of "severe nature," five months after the calamity claimed 254 lives and left 128 people missing.
At least four people were killed and three rescued after a boat carrying mostly school children capsized in the river Jhelum in Srinagar on Tuesday morning.
As many as 41 construction workers are trapped on the other side of the collapsed tunnel for more than 12 days as a portion of it collapsed under a landslide on the early morning of November 12
Rescue operation for 40 construction workers trapped inside the collapsed tunnel on Yamunotri Highway 94 in Uttarakhand suffered a blow on Tuesday as the tunnel reported a fresh crumble within two days of the first tragedy on Sunday.
Around 35-40 workers are trapped inside an underconstruction tunnel on Yamunotri-Uttarkashi national highway 94 that crumbled under landslide early Sunday morning.
The tunnel crumbled under the impact of a landslide early Sunday morning. Teams of the state Disaster Management Department are trying to rescue the trapped workers.
