Uttarakhand

Anurag Jain, secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, said that under the current circumstances “vertical drilling is the second best option”.

On Sunday, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari after visiting the tunnel site, stated that the area where the workers are trapped measures 8.5 meters in height and extends for 2 kilometers.

The Silkyara tunnel, about 30 km from the district headquarters of Uttarkashi, is part of the ambitious Char Dham all-weather road project of the Central government.

Pipes measuring 25 m in length inserted in rubble so far; IAF flies in another auger machine

When our Plan A with an old auger machine failed, we went for Plan B, which was using the US-made auger. Plan C is also ready,” he said.

Another auger machine airlifted by the IAF; help of experts in Thailand, Norway sought

All 40 trapped workers safe; collapse occurred between 205 m and 265 m on Silkyara side on Sunday at 5.30 am

"The committee formed under the chairmanship of the District Magistrate of every district will identify such buildings which are built at more than 30 degrees gradient or are built in the flood zone."

Officials say there have been many cases of those migrating from Nepal fraudulently obtaining Aadhaar cards and voter ID cards in India.

Punjab and Haryana are the major basmati rice exporters. In the last financial year, their exports were to the tune of Rs 33,000 crore.

Police have registered a case against madrasa operator Mohammad Haroon and his son Ibrahim under various sections including POCSO.

There are over 300 such teachers in the state who have been rendering their services in the state's schools in difficult and extremely inaccessible areas for the last 20 or more years.

On this occasion, all the stakeholders deliberated through discussions and made a roadmap to make Uttarakhand child marriage free.

The expert committee has also cautioned against the pressure of permanent population growth in the mythical city of Joshimath, built on a pile of glacier debris.

The expert committee has given a clean chit to the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), which has been targeted by various organizations and people of Joshimath for this land submergence.

The idea of opening this mobile “Ghoda library” came to innovator Shubham Badhani’s mind given the adverse geographical conditions and difficult connectivity routes of the state.

According to the highly placed official sources, "The CBI is likely to soon start questioning the officials concerned as well as former forest minister Harak Singh Rawat in this matter".

Taking a cue from the deaths of three people due to sewerage gas in the last few years, 'Jal Sansthan' has taken this decision.

This resort also falls in the same district area as Vantara Resort, where receptionist Ankita Bhandari was murdered last year.

Built in 1890 during the British period, the hotel The Rink in Mussoorie was once Asia's largest wood-floor skating rink built in 1890 during the period.