Nepal army spokesperson Brig Gen Rajaram Basnet told ThePrint that 279 people have been rescued near hydropower tunnels, but only a few bodies from inside. What is complicating the rescue.
The govt cited its experience of the 2015 earthquake, where the arrival of foreign search & rescue teams had caused significant coordination & management problems for it.
Dhale Suman and Chappe Ram Negi comb through ravines, rivers and forests to find missing trekkers in Kullu’s infamous Valley of Death. ‘Many underestimate the mountains.'
In a statement, Junior Doctors’ Association of the college added that 4 family members of super speciality doctors, who were staying in adjacent ‘Atulyam’ building, also died.
The submersible 'Titan' went missing Sunday during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic. Multiple rescue teams are racing against time to save the 5 people onboard.
Technology is essential to disaster relief efforts, but what marks out the Türkiye-Syria situation is the scale of open-source websites, AI and social media usage.
IAF’s search and rescue teams are in urgent need of modernisation. A nationwide integrated civil/military system with a centralised structure is the way out.
Repeated changes in cotton import duty have prioritised textile competitiveness when mills face high input costs. But policy can also put pressure on farmgate prices.
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