Morning Digest | Uttarkashi tunnel rescue delayed as drill machine hits hurdle, clashes in Dublin after three children injured in suspected stabbing, and more
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Uttarkashi tunnel rescue delayed as drill machine hits hurdle
Rescue operations at the Silkyara tunnel were delayed for hours on November 23 as the drilling machine ran into an iron lattice girder, a structural element of the tunnel which had been buried in the debris and had to be removed manually. The machine only managed to bore through two more metres of debris by 6 p.m. on November 23, frustrating efforts to reach the 41 workers trapped by the collapse of the tunnel since November 12.
Yet to hold public hearing on violence, Manipur inquiry panel invites complaints from public at Delhi office
Five months after its formation, the three-member Commission of Inquiry (CoI) notified by the Centre to probe the Manipur ethnic violence has asked the members of the public to submit “statement, allegation or complaint” in the form of an affidavit in the next 45 days.
Governor has no power of veto, has to send back withheld Bills to Assembly
The Supreme Court has laid down the law that a Governor, in case he withholds assent, should send back a Bill forwarded to him by a State Legislature “as soon as possible” with a message to reconsider the proposed law.
Violent clashes in Dublin after three children injured in suspected stabbing