3 trekkers including two women rescued safely from Varunavat mountain in Uttarkashi
According to SDRF officials, the rescued individuals hailed from Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
According to SDRF officials, the rescued individuals hailed from Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
The wife of a Uttarakhand journalist, who was found dead in a river in Uttarkashi under mysterious circumstances, has pleaded for justice, demanding a transparent probe into the death of her husband.
A major landslide occurred on the route from Uttarkashi to Gangnani, severely disrupting vehicular movement near Netala, said officials on Monday.
In Uttarkashi's Dharali region, where the Limchigad bridge, vital for transportation, was washed away during the August 5 cloudburst, cutting off transportation, intensive efforts are underway to restore connectivity.
The flash floods that ravaged Dharali in Uttarkashi are a grim reminder that India’s most fragile landscapes remain dangerously under-watched.
Talking to the PM on Friday afternoon, CM Dhami informed that besides monitoring the ongoing relief and rescue operation directly on the ground level
“The key is to go slow, go about the initial digging with utmost care, proper cementing and consolidation of the same and then only move ahead for drilling further,” said the Padma Bhushan awardee
Union minister for road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari, who visited the site of the collapsed Uttarkashi tunnel on Sunday, said he hoped rescue teams will reach the workers trapped inside the tunnel in the next two to twoand-a-half days.
Around 35-40 workers are trapped inside an underconstruction tunnel on Yamunotri-Uttarkashi national highway 94 that crumbled under landslide early Sunday morning.
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