Sunday, 22 December 2024
Sunday, 22 December 2024
Manual horizontal digging will start soon in addition to the ongoing top-down drilling to rescue the 41 trapped workers in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, NDMA said. Vertical drilling from the top of the tunnel, where the workers have been trapped for the last 15 days, progressed to 31 metres as a team of rat-hole miners arrived at the site to start manual drilling horizontally through the rubble. A mic has been sent to the workers, stuck in a 2-km built-up area beyond the rubble accumulated in the collapsed part, through a pipe which helps them talk to people outside.
In a stern message, the Election Commission withdrew permission given to the Telangana government for disbursements of financial aid to farmers for rabi crops under the Rythu Bandhu Scheme after a state minister violated the provisions of the model code by making a public announcement about it. The state was asked not to publicise the disbursement during the poll code as part of the condition.
Israel hosted Elon Musk, saying it had reached an agreement in principle for using his SpaceX company's Starlink communications in the Gaza Strip, where a pause to the war against Hamas coincided with the tech entrepreneur's visit. Israeli President Isaac Herzog has scheduled an afternoon meeting with Musk.
Billionaire Gautam Adani's group on said it has no direct or indirect involvement in the construction of Uttarakhand's Silkyara tunnel, where 41 construction workers are trapped since it collapsed more than two weeks back. The construction workers have been trapped 260 meters inside the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel since November 12 when a part of the under-construction tunnel collapsed following a landslide.
Delhi's air quality inched closer to the 'severe' category with calm winds and cloudy conditions trapping pollutants, according to monitoring agencies. An official at the India Meteorological Department said a slight increase in wind speed and light rainfall may bring marginal relief during the day.
Gujarat Titans appointed Shubman Gill as their captain for the 2024 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) following Hardik Pandya's decision to move back to Mumbai Indians. Once Pandya's exit was sure, 24-year-old opener Gill was an obvious captaincy choice, having got the coveted 'orange cap' in the last season with 890 runs, second to only Virat Kohli's all-time record of 973.
A student of Class 4 was allegedly attacked by three of his classmates 108 times with a geometry compass during a fight at a private school in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh, an official said. The father of the victim alleged that the boy had sustained scares in the attack that occurred at the school around 2 pm on November 24.
Twenty people have been killed in lightning strikes in different parts of Gujarat during widespread unseasonal rainfall in the state, an official said. Union Home Minister Amit Shah condoled the deaths due to bad weather and lightning in various cities of Gujarat on November 26 and said the local administration was engaged in relief work.
Three elephants were killed when a goods train hit them while they were crossing the tracks passing through forests at Rajabhatkhawa in West Bengal's Alipurduar district, a senior official of North Frontier Railway said. The Rajabhatkhawa-Kalchini section within which the incident took place is not covered by the Intrusion Detection System (IDS) meant to avert such collisions, he said.
Malaysia will grant a 30-day visa-free entry for Indian and Chinese citizens from December 1, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has announced, joining Thailand and Sri Lanka in recent weeks to offer such a facility to foreigners to promote tourism. However, Ibrahim, who is also the Finance Minister of the country, said the visa exemption was subject to top security screening, the official Bernama news agency reported.
