Govt forms high-level committee to probe Sikkim tunnel disaster
The committee has been directed to submit its findings and recommendations to the competent authority within 15 days.
The committee has been directed to submit its findings and recommendations to the competent authority within 15 days.
Officials said slabs, support piers and shuttering structures crashed down around 2 am after strong winds and severe weather battered the region, triggering panic at the construction site. An urgent rescue operation was launched involving SDRF teams, police and district authorities.
A total of 36 workers had suffered severe burn injuries in the April 14 boiler explosion at the plant in Singhitarai village of Sakti district.
At least forty people were killed and many others injured after an explosion at a bar in the Alpine ski resort town of Crans-Montana in Switzerland during New Year celebrations.
At least nine passengers died after a bus overturned in Andhra Pradesh’s ASR district. Injured passengers were taken to Bhadrachalam Hospital. Leaders expressed grief.
The Medical Superintendent of MG Hospital, Dr Fateh Singh Bhati, said that the injured passenger - Iqbal of Gangana village - died in the morning.
The latest fatality was of Ambika Vishwakarma, who succumbed during treatment at a hospital in nearby Nagpur in Maharashtra. Vishwakarma belonged to Kakai Bilwa village in Chaurai tehsil of Chhindwara district.
One-year-old Garvik Pawar, and three-year-old Mayank Suryavanshi died during treatment at the Nagpur Medical College Hospital in Maharashtra.
Besides, five children from Chhindwara district of MP are on ventilator support at three different hospitals in nearby Nagpur city of Maharashtra.
Meanwhile, the Opposition Congress has questioned whether a bulldozer would be sent to demolish the house of MP Health Minister and Deputy Chief Minister Rajendra Shukla?
