In a tragic incident, a rescue operation went horribly wrong in Ahmednagar's Wadki village, as five people lost their lives while attempting to save a cat that had fallen into an abandoned well being used as a biogas pit.
Karnataka's Industries Minister MB Patil on Thursday lauded the rescue teams involved in saving the two-year-old who fell into a borewell at Lachyana village in Vijayapura district.
After a 20-hour long operation, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams successfully rescued a one and a half-year-old child on Thursday who had fallen into an open borewell in Lachyan village in Indi taluk, Vijayapura district.
The number of deaths has reached nine, with 1,038 injured, 96 trapped, and 52 missing, as per the Central Emergency Operation Center following a 7.2 magnitude earthquake centered in Hualien that struck Taiwan on Wednesday morning.
The casualties, all reported in Hualien, encompass four victims in Taroko Gorge, two near the Dachingshui and Huide tunnels, one in a residential building in Hualien City, and one in the Hejen mining area, with most resulting from rockfalls.
After a powerful 7.4 earthquake rocked Huwalien City on Wednesday, claiming four lives, leaving at least 57 injured and rattling scores of buildings, the local authorities swung into rescue operations in the affected areas, Focus Taiwan reported.
A gathering of prominent Christian community members on Monday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for undertaking successful rescue operations for Indians stranded in foreign countries and becoming the voice of country's migrant labourers abroad during the past 10 years at an e
The Indian Navy has responded to a potential piracy attack at an Iranian fishing vessel in the Arabian Sea, and two naval ships were diverted to intercept the hijacked vessel on Friday.
US President Joe Biden informed on Tuesday that eight people were unaccounted for after the Baltimore bridge collapse, out of which two have been rescued while the rescue operation is ongoing for the remaining six people.