The police said that as soon as they got the information of the incident, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) were called and began the rescue operation.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday attended the Flag-in ceremony of the NDRF's Mountaineering Expedition Vijay where he congratulated NDRF for its successful 'Parvatarohan' campaign and said that such activities can be a passion to some and a duty to a few.
Teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA)and civic agencies also carried out search opeation to ensure there were no more people trapped under the rubble, officials said.
The body of one of the three labourers who fell into a pit of an under-construction building in Vasant Vihar in the wall collapse incident yesterday, was taken out by the NDRF team on Saturday.
In an unprecedented act to spread awareness of Yoga, Jimmy, an Indian pariah dog, trained by NDRF, performed Yoga along with them, as the 13th battalion of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) celebrated the 10th International Yoga Day in Udhampur on Friday.
The train wreck in West Bengal's Darjeeling was due to the disregarding of the signal by the Loco pilot of the goods train which hit the rear end of the Kanchenjunga Express train, killing at least eight people and injuring over twenty, said Railway top official.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday offered his condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the train accident in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri, calling it a "very tragic incident."
Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has left for Darjeeling to visit the site of a train accident involving the Kanchenjunga Express train and a goods train that killed at least five passengers and left over 20 people injured.
After more than 15 hours of rescue operations by the Amreli fire team and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the girl was taken out at 5:00 am on Saturday.
Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday presided over a meeting of the Forest Department here today and expressed serious concern over the forest fire incidents
Weeks after the hoarding collapse incident in Ghatkopar, which left 16 people dead, BJP leader Kirit Somaiya alleged that 60 hoardings had been installed on Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) property without any permits by 17 different companies.