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Rescuers drill Indian tunnel to look for trapped workers; families get impatient By Alasdair Pal Reuters TAPOVAN, India (Reuters) - Indian authorities on Thursday began drilling inside a tunnel in the Himalayas in an attempt to rescue more than 35 workers trapped there after a flash flood that destroyed dams and bridges. About 171 people remain unaccounted for since Sundays disaster in Uttarakhand state, most of them workers at the Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric project and at the smaller ...

Indian authorities on Thursday began drilling inside a tunnel in the Himalayas in an attempt to rescue more than 35 workers trapped there after a flash flood that destroyed dams and bridges.

852 New Delhi, February 11 There was a hanging glacier that slipped with rock and ice falling from 5,600 metres altitude owing to gravitational pull and this caused disaster in Uttarakhand, as per preliminary observations of experts. This explanation by scientists comes days after Home Minister Amit Shah told Parliament that initial inquiry has revealed that a landslide triggered a snow avalanche covering approximately 14 square km area and caused a flash flood in the Rishiganga river downstrea...

The scientists, however, say it is difficult to comment right now if climate change has been directly responsible for the February 7 catastrophic that washed away two upcoming hydropower stations.

A portion of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Sunday, triggering an avalanche and flooding.

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Playing with God’s world: ‘Growth’ has a high price Published Feb 10, 2021, 7:11 am IST Updated Feb 10, 2021, 7:11 am IST It is also unclear to what extent the disaster is the outcome of over-exploitation of resources in the back-to-back construction of dams  National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel clear debris after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier snapped off, releasing water trapped behind it in Tapovan, Uttarakhand on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. (...

Rescuers in northern India made a vain attempt on Wednesday to find signs of life using a drone to search for 35 construction workers missing inside a tunnel days after a flash flood swept down a mountain valley destroying dams and bridges.

LUCKNOW, India - Rescuers raced to free around 35 Indian construction workers trapped in a tunnel, two days after the hydroelectric dam they were helping to build was swept away by a wall of water from a collapsed glacier that barrelled down a Himalayan river. The workers were among 197 people who officials said were still unaccounted for as the...

Did a lost nuclear device cause Chamoli flash floods? Decades-old suspicion comes back to haunt villagers In the year 2018, state cabinet minister of Uttarakhand Satpal Maharaj had said that he had urged the Prime Minister to take action in this regard.  Share Via Email   |  A+A A- Rescue operations underway near the damaged Dhauliganga hydro power projectat Raini village in Uttarakhand. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav, EPS) Express News Service CHAMOLI: While experts are yet to pinpoint the cau...

News headlines for February 10, 2021: PM Modi, in his reply to the motion of thanks on Presidents address said that the nation needed to safeguard itself from andolan jeevi who were parasites.