Rishikesh, January 11 The body of a missing Rajaji Tiger Reserve official was recovered from the Chilla canal here on Thursday, taking the death toll to five, an SDRF official said. The tiger reserve’s wildlife warden Aloki Devi had been...
Rishikesh, January 11 The body of a missing Rajaji Tiger Reserve official was recovered from the Chilla canal here on Thursday, taking the death toll to five, an SDRF official said. The tiger reserve’s wildlife warden Aloki Devi had been...
New Delhi, January 5 The Congress on Friday constituted five screening committees for shortlisting candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, due in April-May. The party has divided all states and Union territories into five clusters for the purpose. Congress president...
Chandigarh, December 27 Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of 160 development schemes worth Rs 415 crore in New Tehri. He inaugurated 44 schemes worth Rs 201 crore and laid the foundation stones...
Haridwar, December 26 Six workers were killed and another four injured on Tuesday when a brick kiln wall collapsed on them in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar district, police said. The accident occurred in Lahboli village, said Haridwar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)...
Dehradun, December 21 Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday honoured 12 rat-hole miners who played a vital role in the rescue of 41 workers trapped at the Silkyara tunnel. The rat-hole miners had manually drilled the final stretch...
Chandigarh, December 19 Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Dhami on Monday said the Sikh community had hugely contributed to the development of the Terai. He was addressing the Youth Sikh Conference organised in Rudrapur. He said that with the blessings of...
Dehradun, December 9 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said India will become a USD 5 trillion economy by the end of 2025. Addressing the valedictory session of the Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit at the Forest Research Institute here,...
Neeraj Mohan New Delhi, December 8 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday declared that India would emerge as one of the world’s top three economies during his third term, expressing the BJP’s anticipation of victory in the upcoming general election....
New Delhi/Dehradun, December 7 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit – 2023 in Dehradun on December 8 as the hill state looks to boost investment in the coming years, his office said in a statement....
New Delhi, December 6 Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday informed the Lok Sabha that instances of earthquakes in India had increased due to the activation of the Almora fault in western Nepal. There have been 97 earthquakes...
Chandigarh, December 2 Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and invited him to inaugurate the Global Investment Conference being organised in Dehradun on December 8-9. Dhami discussed various issues related to the state with...
Khirabeda, December 2 Suddenly they heard a thud. By the time they could understand what had happened panic stuck, recalled Sukhram who returned home in Khirabeda, a nondescript village on the outskirts of Ranchi, in the early hours of Saturday....
Dipender Manta Mandi, December 1 Barring the first 24 hours after the tunnel collapse at Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand when they had lost all hope of coming out alive, the 41 workers trapped inside remained confident that they would be taken...
New Delhi, November 30 A high-level committee, under the chairmanship of Home Minister Amit Shah, on Thursday approved the recovery and reconstruction (R&R) plan of Rs 1,658.17 crore for Joshimath town in Uttarakhand. Plan will be implemented in three...
Neeraj Mohan Silkyara (Uttarkashi), Nov 30 The tragic collapse of the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in Uttarkashi has not only highlighted negligence in the tunnel construction, but has also brought to light deplorable working conditions faced by workers. All of them normal,...
Dehradun, November 30 The Centre on Thursday approved a Rs 1,658.17 crore recovery and reconstruction plan for Joshimath in Uttarakhand which was affected by landslide and ground subsidence earlier this year. The decision was taken by a high level committee,...
Rishikesh (Uttarakhand), November 30 The AIIMS-Rishikesh on Thursday declared all 41 workers who were evacuated from Silkyara tunnel after a 17-day ordeal fit to return home. Briefing the media here on their health condition, Dr Ravikant, head of general medicine...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 30 Sleep deprivation was the only medical symptom 41 workers rescued from Silkyara tunnel battled, with all of them stabilising back to normal sleeping patterns now. Mentally fit and alert and physically stable, all labourers...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 29 Morning, evening walks, yoga and an abiding sense of caring kept 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel for 17 days in high spirits. Editorial: Lessons from Silkyara Sharing the incredible story of survival...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 29 All 41 workers rescued from the partially collapsed Silkyara tunnel are doing fine and are under medical supervision, director of AIIMS Rishikesh Meenu Singh told The Tribune on Wednesday. Meenu Singh said all 41...
Shravasti (UP), November 29 Fireworks lit the night sky of UP’s Motipur village, when six of its natives, stuck in the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi for 17 days, crawled out to freedom. The people in the village located in...
Neeraj Mohan Chinyalisaur (Uttarakhand), November 29 Breaking free from the confines of the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel, all 41 rescued workers witnessed the first light of dawn on Wednesday, marking a joyous end to their 17 days ordeal that began on the...
Chandigarh, November 29 Arnold Dix, a global tunnelling specialist brought in for the Uttarkashi rescue mission on Wednesday, said the mission saw a miracle and he would visit the temple since he had made a vow to express gratitude there...
New Delhi, November 29 The 41 workers, who were rescued from Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel in a multi-agency rescue operation, kept their spirits up while trapped inside by taking morning walks and practising yoga, a rescued worker told Prime Minister Narendra...
Uttarkashi, November 28 The moment four NDRF personnel arrived on the other side of the rubble at the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand to rescue 41 labourers trapped inside, their hopes of a safe evacuation were kindled, team commander Manmohan said...
New Delhi, November 28 Moments after 41 workers were wheeled out of the partially collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, the government said the accident had taught it a lot and safety audit of all tunnels would commence soon. “This event...
Uttarkashi, November 28 As the trapped workers emerged from the Uttarkashi tunnel on Wednesday night, some with smiling faces and others looking grateful and exhausted at the end of the 17-day ordeal, the nation took a collective sigh of relief....
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 28 Behind efforts to rescue 41 trapped workers, a mission which tunnelling expert Arnold Dix described as phenomenal, was the team work of the best of technical brains across public and private sectors. While many...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 28 The technique behind rat-hole coal mining, a practice that was banned by the National Green Tribunal in 2014 for being unsafe, came to the rescue of 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in...
Neeraj Mohan Uttarkashi, November 28 In a remarkable feat, the 400-hour ordeal of 41 construction workers trapped in the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel here reached a positive conclusion this evening. The unprecedented rescue operation, the first of its kind in the country,...