Drilling work to rescue the trapped men was halted again Friday night, in yet another setback to the multi-agency effort. Auger machine apparently hit a metal object.
A 41-bed ward at the community health centre has been readied for the workers trapped, and ambulances are waiting outside the tunnel to rush them there.
Former advisor to PMO, Bhaskar Khulbe, surveyed rescue operations Wednesday & said workers trapped inside partially collapsed Silkyara Tunnel were in 'high spirits', rescuers also 'positive'.
The first audio-visual contact was established Tuesday after a camera was pushed in through a 6-inch pipe; the workers received hot khichdi in bottles through this ‘lifeline’ as well.
Prof Arnold Dix, president of International Tunneling & Underground Space Association, adds that the work going on to rescue workers trapped since 12 November is 'very systematic'.
The vessel carried Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, British billionaire Hamish Harding, French explorer Paul Henry Nargeolet, and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.
It was unclear how many had been aboard, but investigations of one account from European rescue-support charity said that there could have been 750 people.
HTMS Sukhothai suffered an engine malfunction & sank in the Gulf of Thailand Sunday. 73 of 106 aboard were rescued in an overnight mission while remaining 33 were forced to abandon ship.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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