Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: The 150 packets of food items were supplied through a food pipe stuck through the collapsed part of the structure. The rescue operation has entered Day 11 on Wednesday.
Sikkim tragedy: A flash flood triggered after a cloudburst in the early hours of Wednesday claimed at least 26 lives and the count may rise further as 142 people are still missing in the Himalayan state. The 0perations on a large scale are underway to rescue thousands of stranded people in Sikkim.
Several fire tenders were dispatched to the spot to fight flames.
While the locals and the school children were on their way to the school, the wires of the cable car snapped and is now dangling in the middle of a ravine surrounded by mountains.
Torrential rainfall has led to flood-like situations in several parts of Gujarat. It is to be noted that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are on high alert to rescue people stuck in heavy water flow regions.
The evacuations began earlier this week after India diverted waters from dams into the Ravi River, which flows from India into Pakistan.
Rajasthan: The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Civil Defence successfully carried out the rescue operation.
Uttar Pradesh: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed grief over the loss of lives in the accident.
Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang had visited STNM on Tuesday night and interacted with the injured tourists and instructed the hospital authorities to provide the best possible care to the injured one.
Taking note of the accident, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has instructed Indore District Collector to speed up the rescue operations.
Earlier in the day, a family of five people was rescued in Bisnia village, west of Idlib region.
Earlier on Saturday, the IAF had deployed An-32 transport aircraft, two Mi-17 helicopters, a Chinook helicopter and a ALH Dhruv and had evacuated 119 passengers stranded at Ditokchera railway station.
SDRF has been conducting search and rescue operations in the various parts of the rain-affected states since October 17.
After 3 bodies could be retrieved from inside the mine since mid-June, the district administration was forced to take the decision given the increasing water level at the illegal rat-hole mine due to continuous rainfall in the area for the past many days, the official said.
A massive fire broke out at an oil warehouse in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district in the late evening on June 28.
Revathi Sanjana was playing in the tub last night as her parents sat glued to the TV at Threspuram village, watching the attempts of rescuers to try and extricate the three-year-old child, police said.
According to a release issued by the state disaster management department, 42 casualties have been reported so far from the districts affected by the heavy rainfall, though a district-wise break-up was not yet available.
According to sources, at least 300 women and children, stranded in the floods waters were rescued and were later shifted to safer places by the helicopters deployed by SWAC team during the end of July and early August.
Sangli, Satara and Kolhapur districts of Maharashtra have been badly affected by floods, where nearly 4.5 lakh people were shifted to safer locations. In addition, teams of 100 doctors each have been deployed in every district.
The incident of a two-year-old falling in a borewell has again brought to fore the dangers posed by uncovered borewells, which have turned into death traps for children.
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