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New Delhi, November 17 On the sixth day of the rescue operation on Friday, efforts to extricate 40 trapped labourers from the collapsed Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in Uttarakhand gained momentum. The latest drilling machine, having successfully penetrated 24 metre, managed to insert four pipes by Friday afternoon. However, the drilling process temporarily halted when the auger encountered a metallic obstruction and …

Police said the man and the woman, who were in their twenties, could not be immediately identified. But based on some of the belongings found nearby, they believed that the victims could be from Russia. Naked bodies of the woman and the man were found inside a kund (hot spring pool) and outside the pool, respectively in Tagri on the …

Jaipur, November 17 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday attacked the Congress, saying it considered Rajasthan as its “ATM” where its leaders from Delhi swiped card to withdraw money. Addressing a public meeting at Vijay Nagar of Ajmer, he said the Congress crossed all limits of appeasement politics for keeping its vote bank. The state ranks number one in …

New Delhi, November 17 Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles are set to visit India to take part in the two-plus-two ministerial dialogue on Monday that is likely to focus on further shoring up strategic ties between the two countries, people familiar with the matter said. It is learnt that Marles, who is also Australia’s deputy …

Gariaband, November 17 A jawan of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was killed in a blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband district, where polling was held in the second phase of the state Assembly elections. The incident took place near Bade Gobra village when a polling team, escorted by security personnel, was returning after conducting voting, a senior …

Hyderabad, November 17 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Telangana was going to witness a ‘toofan’ (storm) of support for his party in the legislative assembly polls and that the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) would lose badly. Addressing a rally at Pinapaka in Khammam district, he alleged that the corruption of BRS can be seen all over the …

Reuters Gaza/Jerusalem, November 17 UN aid deliveries to Gaza were suspended again on Friday due to shortages of fuel and a communications shutdown, deepening the misery of thousands of hungry and homeless Palestinians as Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the enclave. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said civilians faced the “immediate possibility of starvation” due to the …

New Delhi, November 17 BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain were stopped at the Delhi international airport following a look out circular issued against them in the alleged fraud at the fintech firm, sources said. The couple were to travel to New York late on Thursday for vacation when they were stopped at the airport on the …

Ahmedabad, November 17 Hotel room tariff in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad and airfares to the City have skyrocketed in view of the soaring demand from people who want to witness the cricket World Cup final match between India and Australia to be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium here on the coming Sunday. As the fever for the World Cup final is …

New Delhi, November 17 The Delhi High Court on Friday stayed the proceedings against Hero Motocorp chairman Pawan Kant Munjal in a money-laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Justice Saurabh Banerjee issued notice to the investigating agency on Munjal’s petition against the ED case and granted it time to file its reply. While granting the interim relief, …