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573 workers trapped or missing at 11 Nepal hydropower sites after flash floods

India, Aug. 30 -- At least 573 workers at hydropower project sites and tunnels across Nepal's Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts - two of the worst-hit areas in Wednesday's flash flood - are trapped or out ... Read More


Manipur set to get 5th chief secy in 3 years

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Manipur is set to get its fifth chief secretary in the last three years since the ethnic conflict started on May 2023,as chief minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Saturday hosted ... Read More


Survivors describe wave that now traps 500-plus at hydro projects

New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- At least 573 workers at hydropower projects and tunnels across Nepal's Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts - two of the worst-hit in Wednesday's flash flood - are trapped or out of cont... Read More


Transit hub at centre of search for hundreds of missing foreigners in Nepal floods

India, Aug. 29 -- Rasuwa, a critical transit hub near the Nepal-China border, has become the epicentre of a multi-agency search and rescue operation after flash floods along the Trishuli River basin f... Read More


India watches Nepal flood crisis, puts NDRF on high alert in UP, Bihar

India, Aug. 27 -- The Union government is keeping a close watch on the situation arising from the flash flood in Nepal, as National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have been put on high alert and... Read More


Govt sends NDRF teams to border areas

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- The Union government is keeping a close watch on the situation arising from the flash flood in Nepal, as National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have been put on high alert... Read More


Soap cases emerge as unlikely symbol of Northeast's heroin crackdown

India, Aug. 18 -- On the evening of August 12, security forces stopped a vehicle near the India-Myanmar border in Saitual, Mizoram and seized nearly 1kg of heroin packed in 73 plastic soap cases. Arou... Read More


India plans a modern civil def network

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced plans to modernise India's civil defence volunteer network, saying the changing nature of warfare meant threats could target cr... Read More


India plans a modern civil defence network

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced plans to modernise India's civil defence volunteer network, saying the changing nature of warfare meant threats could target cr... Read More


'Imperative to identify, isolate dimaagi Naxals': PM Modi in Independence Day speech

India, Aug. 15 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday warned against what he described as "dimagi Naxals" (intellectual Naxals), saying that while the government had won against armed Maoists, pe... Read More