Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Aug 9 (ANI): Over two lakh people have been rescued and evacuated to safer places in Maharashtra, according to official estimates.
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)/Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Aug 8 (ANI): Former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj's demise is saddening and a personal loss to the country, said Saurabh Bhardwaj, a resident of Varanasi, who was rescued from Nigeria after Swaraj's intervention.
Kolhapur (Maharashtra) [India], Aug 7 (ANI): National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams on Tuesday rescued over 1260 people from Kolhapur district as heavy rains continue to lash the region.
Badlapur [Maharashtra] [India], July 27 (ANI): All the 700 passengers and 200 railway staff, who were marooned since 3 am in heavy rains in the Kolhapur-Mumbai Mahalaxmi Express, which was stranded about 100 km from Mumbai, were rescued by joint efforts of teams of National Disaster Respo
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 22 (ANI): A huge fire broke out at the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) building in Mumbai's Bandra West here on Monday afternoon with at reportedly 100 people trapped on its terrace. Firefighters have rescued 60 people so far but at least 30 people
Guwahati/Nalabari (Assam) [India], July 16 (ANI): Indian Army personnel rescued at least 160 people affected due to floods triggered by incessant rains in Nalabari district during a night operation.
Solan (Himachal Pradesh) [India], July 14 (ANI): Twenty-seven people have been rescued from the debris so far after a building collapsed here at Kumarhatti in Solan on Sunday.
Zabul [Afghanistan], Apr 26 (ANI): The Afghan National Defence and Security Forces freed at least 53 people from a Taliban prison in an operation in Daichopan here, the Afghan Ministry of Defence said on Friday.
Lahaul-Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Nov 3 (ANI): The district administration of the Lahaul-Spiti region on Friday rescued 70 people from Keylong, through Rohtang tunnel to Manali, after fresh snowfall.
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Sep 24(ANI): An Indian Air Force chopper on Monday rescued 19 people stranded on an islet on the swelling Beas river at Dobi in Kullu district. The rescued people were then flown to the local airfield of Bhuntar.
Gangtok (Sikkim) [India], Sep 18 (ANI): The Indian Army has rescued nearly 350 people including 115 civilians, 216 Army personnel and 12 personnel of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in Sikkim over the last two days after incessant rains and landslides hit the north and east region.
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], Aug 31 (ANI): Punjab Police on Thursday rescued 42 people - suffering from drug addiction - from Disha Rehabilitation Centre in Ludhiana after receiving complaints that they were apparently being ill-treated at the institution.