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Under this plan, Rs 1079.96 crore of central assistance will be provided from the recovery and reconstruction window of the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF).

The 41 workers who had been trapped in the tunnel in Uttarkashi for over 400 hours only showed jetlag-like symptoms and were so healthy that none of them made use of the wheeled stretchers that were kept ready to pull them out.

A day after they were rescued from the tunnel where they had been trapped for 17 days, 41 construction workers have been airlifted in an Indian Air Force Chinook and are being taken to AIIMS in Rishikesh.

Forty-one labourers, trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand for 17 days, are expected to be evacuated shortly. The breakthrough came after "rat miners" were brought in around 7 last evening. They have to manually dig the last stretch of 12 meters.

The 41 workers trapped in an Uttarakhand tunnel for 17 days are likely to be rescued anytime now, as the manual drilling team clearing the debris that blocks their escape is metres away from reaching them.

The relatives of the 41 trapped workers have been asked to "be prepared" as rescuers said they are just five meters away from them.

The forty-one workers who are trapped under a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand will be pulled out on wheeled stretchers one by one through a big pipe that is still being drilled to reach them, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said.

Director General of the National Disaster Response Force, Atul Karwal Thursday said that the multi-agency rescue operations to provide a safe passage to 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakashi will be completed by the end of the day.

Five days after an under-construction tunnel collapsed in Uttarakhand and trapped 40 labourers, a piece of special American equipment has been flown to the spot to expedite the rescue work.

Teams from NDRF, Delhi Police, and Delhi Fire Service rushed to the spot and started the evacuation.

At least 25 people have died and 143 are missing after a flash flood hit the Teesta River in the early hours of Wednesday.

Two boys who went to take bath in Hindon river here slipped into deep water and drowned, officials said, adding that their bodies were recovered by NDRF team on Tuesday evening.

Over 50 people were stranded in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district following a cloudburst and have been rescued by the NDRF, officials said on Friday.

The Central government also released Rs 189.27 crore of the state's past dues from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) on August 7.

Five people died after a portion of a well caved in at a village in Jharkhand's Ranchi district on Thursday, Chief Minister Hemant Soren said. However, NDRF officials said the toll is still unknown as the rescue operation is underway.

Under this plan, Rs 1079.96 crore of central assistance will be provided from the recovery and reconstruction window of the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF).

The 41 workers who had been trapped in the tunnel in Uttarkashi for over 400 hours only showed jetlag-like symptoms and were so healthy that none of them made use of the wheeled stretchers that were kept ready to pull them out.

A day after they were rescued from the tunnel where they had been trapped for 17 days, 41 construction workers have been airlifted in an Indian Air Force Chinook and are being taken to AIIMS in Rishikesh.

Forty-one labourers, trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand for 17 days, are expected to be evacuated shortly. The breakthrough came after "rat miners" were brought in around 7 last evening. They have to manually dig the last stretch of 12 meters.

The 41 workers trapped in an Uttarakhand tunnel for 17 days are likely to be rescued anytime now, as the manual drilling team clearing the debris that blocks their escape is metres away from reaching them.

The relatives of the 41 trapped workers have been asked to "be prepared" as rescuers said they are just five meters away from them.

The forty-one workers who are trapped under a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand will be pulled out on wheeled stretchers one by one through a big pipe that is still being drilled to reach them, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said.

Director General of the National Disaster Response Force, Atul Karwal Thursday said that the multi-agency rescue operations to provide a safe passage to 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakashi will be completed by the end of the day.

Five days after an under-construction tunnel collapsed in Uttarakhand and trapped 40 labourers, a piece of special American equipment has been flown to the spot to expedite the rescue work.

Teams from NDRF, Delhi Police, and Delhi Fire Service rushed to the spot and started the evacuation.

At least 25 people have died and 143 are missing after a flash flood hit the Teesta River in the early hours of Wednesday.

Two boys who went to take bath in Hindon river here slipped into deep water and drowned, officials said, adding that their bodies were recovered by NDRF team on Tuesday evening.

Over 50 people were stranded in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district following a cloudburst and have been rescued by the NDRF, officials said on Friday.

The Central government also released Rs 189.27 crore of the state's past dues from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) on August 7.

Five people died after a portion of a well caved in at a village in Jharkhand's Ranchi district on Thursday, Chief Minister Hemant Soren said. However, NDRF officials said the toll is still unknown as the rescue operation is underway.