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Two young men were safely rescued by the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) on Monday night after their vehicle lost control and overturned in the swollen Bin River along the Rishikesh-Haridwar-Chilla Barrage Road. The SDRF Dhalwala team dispatched a rescue unit immediately upon receiving information about the incident at around 9:15 pm. Torrential rain, pitch […]
The search and rescue operation for two missing workers following the tunnel accident in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district last week continued on Tuesday, officials said. According to the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), a joint team comprising the SDRF, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), local police, and other agencies has been continuously […]
A woman carrying her two-year-old daughter walked into a waterlogged area of Rishikesh amid heavy rains, only to be electrocuted by the live current spreading through it due to a snapped power line. In a last act of motherly protection, the woman, Suman Jethudi (32), signalled to her 12-year-old son to stay away and managed […]
The self-enumeration phase of the 2027 Census commenced on Monday in the hill states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, as well as the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and Ladakh, covering remote villages, mountainous communities and difficult terrain.From August 17 to August 31, residents in these regions will be able to submit their […]
In a major multi-state crackdown against the ISI-backed, Pakistan-based Shahzad Bhatti Network (SBN) ahead of Independence Day, security agencies busted its terror syndicate and thwarted plans for subversive attacks aimed at disrupting the occasion. In a coordinated operation carried out on August 12, using a real-time intelligence-sharing system with state police forces, they made 254 […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed the BJP over the 2022 Ankita Bhandari murder case, in which a 19-year-old receptionist of an Uttarakhand resort was killed, and said the ruling party has a “warped mentality” of protecting criminals. Gandhi said he met Bhandari’s family here two days ago. Four years have passed, but even […]
Rescuers on Saturday found one more dead inside a tunnel under construction inundated with water two days ago here, leading to the death of seven workers, with the clock ticking for the couple of workers still inside. Twenty-two people were trapped inside the three-kilometre tunnel when the water rushed in around 7 pm on Thursday, […]
All 22 tourists aboard the Tempo Traveller that plunged into a gorge in Malla Ramgarh, Nainital district, were residents of Jawahar Colony, Nangla and Ballabhgarh areas of Haryana’s Faridabad. They were all family friends who had set out from Faridabad around 9 pm on Thursday for a trip to Mukteshwar and Nainital to enjoy the […]
A minibus with 21 passengers besides the driver on board fell into a 25-metre-deep gorge here on the Ramgarh-Mukteshwar road on Friday, officials said. Twenty people have been rescued safely but one person remains trapped inside the bus. Rescue teams are using cutters to extricate him. Teams from the administration are present at the spot, […]
Seven workers died when water gushed inside a tunnel under construction at a hydroelectric project site in Chamoli district, officials said on Friday. Search for three missing persons is currently underway, they said. The incident occurred in a tunnel at Mayapur (Pipalkoti), when landslides and subsidence caused debris and water to fill half of the […]
