Rescue Operations
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Watch Spain derailment rescue operations (in pics)
World | Jul 26, 2013, 06:21 AM ISTMadrid, July 26: A passenger train derailed Wednesday night on a curvy stretch of track in northwestern Spain, killing at least 77 people caught inside toppled cars and injuring more than 140 in the country's
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Uttarakhand disaster: a month after, 5748 still missing
India | Jul 15, 2013, 08:36 PM ISTDehradun, July 15: The deadline for locating 5,748 people still missing in the Uttarakhand disaster ended on Monday, exactly a month after the catastrophe, but Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said they will not be declared
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Uttarakhand: SC asks NDMA to give status of rescue operations
India | Jul 12, 2013, 04:18 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jul 12: The Supreme Court today asked the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to apprise it within two weeks about the status of rescue operations in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand.“NDMA to file an affidavit on
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Uttarakhand:Hundred Badrinath pilgrims await evacuation, says NDMA
India | Jul 03, 2013, 05:00 PM ISTDehradun, July 3: Rescue operations at Badrinath in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand have not ended yet, as about hundred pilgrims and 200 local people are still to be evacuated, a disaster management official said Wednesday."Still we have
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Bad weather halts rescue ops from Badrinath
India | Jun 27, 2013, 12:47 PM ISTGuptkashi, June 27: Air rescue operations resumed today to pull out stranded people but they had to be halted for Badrinath as the weather turned bad, even as decaying bodies were being cremated swiftly in
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Uttarakhand: India salutes its army engaged in rescue operations
India | Jun 26, 2013, 03:27 PM ISTNew Delhi: Over 60 choppers and 10000 army and paramilitary personnel are engaged in the rescue operations following one of the worst calamities that hit Uttarakhand.45 Indian Air Force aircraft, 11 choppers from the Army,
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SGPC dispatches vehicles for rescue operations in Uttarakhand
India | Jun 22, 2013, 05:46 PM ISTLudhiana, Jun 22: Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), apex body of Sikhs, today dispatched two dozen vehicles including ambulances to Dehradun to assist the ongoing rescue operations in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand. Mini buses, SUVs and ambulances
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Watch in pics: Uttarakhand devastation and rescue operations
India | Jun 20, 2013, 07:19 AM ISTRishikesh, Jun 20: Rain has created havoc in the hill state of Uttarakhand where torrential rains have caused massive landslides and flooding. Small towns like Devprayag, Rishikesh, Kedarnath, Govindghat, and Hemkund Sahib have been devastated,
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24 pilgrims trapped in two cable cars in TN, rescue operations on
India | Jun 05, 2013, 03:58 PM ISTPalani (Tamil Nadu), Jun 5: About 24 pilgrims were trapped intwo cable cars which stopped mid way to a hilltop temple today, some 100-feet-high from the ground, official sources said.The cable cars, meant to transport
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Rahul Gandhi visits ferry mishap site in Dhubri
India | May 02, 2012, 06:51 PM ISTDhubri (Assam), May 2: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today visited the site of the boat tragedy at Medartary ghat in Assam's Dhubri district and assured the people that the government was taking all steps
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Kalka Mail Mishap: Army Joins Rescue Operations
India | Jul 10, 2011, 08:32 PM ISTNew Delhi, July 10 : Joining the rescue operations, Army today despatched two columns, one each from Kanpur and Allahabad, with relief assistance troops, medical teams and equipment to the Kalka Mail accident site near