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"Will take 3-4 hrs to evacuate workers from Silkyara tunnel...": NDMA offi
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
National Disaster Management Authority Member, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Tuesday said that the entire operation to evacuate workers from the Silkyara tunnel will take 3-4 hours adding that they are not in a "hurry."
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"Near breakthrough; 2 metres drilling still left": NDMA official on Uttark
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
National Disaster Management Authority Member, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Tuesday said that the rescue workers, who have been tirelessly working day and night to rescue the 41 trapped workers for the last 17 days, were near a breakthrough, "but not quite there".
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"86 meters of vertical drilling required to reach tunnel's crust": NDMA on
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
National Disaster Management Authority Member, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Sunday said that 86 meters of vertical drilling is required to reach the crust of the Uttarkashi's tunnel where 41 workers remained trapped adding that 17 meters of the drilling has already taken place.
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"No movement in last 24 hours...vertical drilling could commence in 48 hou
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
National Disaster Management Authority Member, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Saturday said that there has been no movement in the last 24 hours in the drilling work to rescue the 41 workers trapped in the Uttarkashi tunnel for 13 days.
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"This operation is getting technically more complex": NDMA on Uttarkashi t
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
A member of the National Disaster Management Authority, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Saturday said that the rescue operation at Uttarkashi's Silkyara tunnel has become technically complex adding that rescuers are working in an environment of unpredictability.
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"These operations are like war, timelines should not be assumed...": NDMA
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Member of the National Disaster Management Authority, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Wednesday said that the rescue operation which is underway at Uttarkashi's Silkyara tunnel where 41 workers remain trapped is like a "war" and no such specific timelines should be assumed by anyone.
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Our focus is to save lives of workers trapped inside Uttarkashi tunnel: ND
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Member of the National Disaster Management Authority, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Tuesday said that our focus is to save the life of workers trapped inside the under-construction tunnel in Uttarkashi.
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Japanese Embassy confers 'Order of the Rising Sun, Gold & Silver Star'
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The ceremony conferred Admiral Karambir Singh (Retd), the 24th Chief of the Naval Staff with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star for his contribution to strengthening the relationship between India and Japan in national defence.
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Heeralal Samariya sworn in as Chief Information Commissioner, becomes firs
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The appointment comes after the Supreme Court had on October 30 directed the Centre and the State governments to take steps to fill the vacancies in the Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions (SICs).
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Cash for Query row: Mahua Moitra deposes before Lok Sabha Ethics Committee
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
"Many members of the committee are not satisfied with Mahua Moitra's answer. Some members of the committee said that Mahua's defence was not good as She was talking about her personal life, which is not related to the matter, " said sources.
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SC directs Centre, States to take steps to fill vacancies in CIC, SICs
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra observed that the 2005 law on the Right to Information (RTI) will become a "dead letter" if vacancies are not filled.
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UAE: RTA completes maintenance of 68,000 traffic and directional signs in
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has completed maintenance works on 67,816 traffic and directional signs across Dubai over six months in 2023.
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