The incident occurred at around 8.45 am Thursday near the Rishikesh-Gangotri National Highway. Authorities are monitoring the situation and extending help to the injured.
The string of trekking tragedies in Uttarakhand highlights a concerning trend of inexperienced people being lured by social media into serious outdoor activities.
After 41 trapped colleagues were rescued, workers in the Silkyara tunnel wonder whether to stay or go back home. Construction will only resume after a safety audit of the tunnel.
17-day ordeal for 41 workers trapped inside under-construction Silkyara tunnel ended late Tuesday after rat-hole miners burrowed through last 18 metres of rubble. How it unfolded.
The chief minister also announced Rs 50,000 reward for each of the rescue workers who went inside the evacuation passage and helped the trapped labourers come out of the tunnel.
After auger machine deployed for horizontal digging through rubble to rescue workers broke down again, vertical digging through hill above has begun. By Monday, 31m had been completed.
Earlier today, the auger machine being used for horizontal drilling of the tunnel that got stuck inside the pipe was cut and removed using a plasma cutter.
Vertical drilling expected to be completed in 2 days. Horizontal drilling by auger machine stopped after it broke down. Plasma machine from Hyderabad removing parts from rubble.
Rescue operations stopped Thursday after teams encountered problems in digging a horizontal path to trapped men, even though they had just 15 more metres of debris to push through.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
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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