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Uttarkashi: The auger machine engaged for drilling through the rubble at the Silkyara tunnel to rescue 41 trapped workers has busted, international tunneling expert Arnold Dix said Saturday. "Augering is finished...The auger is broken, destructed," he told reporters in Silkyara. The auger machine was facing...

Uttarkashi: With the auger machine encountering hurdles in the rubble time and again, rescuers are considering switching over to manual drilling at the Silkyara tunnel where 41 labourers have been trapped for the past 13 days, officials said Saturday. Drilling at the collapsed portion of...

New Delhi: A Qatari court has admitted the Indian government's appeal against the death penalty handed down to eight former Indian Navy personnel in that country, according to media reports, even as there was no official word from the Ministry of External Affairs here Friday....

New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) issued a show-cause notice to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Thursday for his "panauti", "pickpocket" and "loan waiver for the super-rich" jibes at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and asked him to respond by Saturday. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

Uttarkashi: An iron mesh that came in the way of the auger machine drilling through the rubble at Silkyara tunnel to create an escape passage for the trapped workers has been removed, officials said Thursday. Former advisor to the prime minister's office Bhaskar Khulbe said...

Washington: US authorities have thwarted a conspiracy to assassinate a Sikh separatist on American soil and issued a warning to India over concerns that it was involved in the plot, according to multiple people familiar with the case, a media report said. The target of...

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday carried out raids at 14 locations in Punjab and Haryana in connection with its probe into attacks on the Indian Consulate in San Francisco in the US earlier this year, an official spokesperson said. The spokesperson said...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday said it has attached immovable assets and equity shares worth about Rs 752 crore as part of its ongoing money laundering investigation against the Congress-promoted National Herald newspaper and companies linked to it. The provisional attachment order came...

Uttarkashi: Rescuers Tuesday released the first video of the workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel here for 10 days. The visuals were captured using an endoscopic camera sent in through the alternative 6-inch pipeline, which was pushed in through the rubble of the collapsed tunnel...

New Delhi: A case has been registered against designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun for threatening people flying Air India and the airline with closure of operations from November 19, the NIA said Monday. The case has been registered under the Indian Penal Code and the...