Inside Pictures of Under-Construction Tunnel Collapse in Uttarkashi - Hindustan TimesInside Pictures of Under-Construction Tunnel Collapse in Uttarkashi - Hindustan Times
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  1. An under-construction tunnel in Uttarkashi collapsed on Sunday, trapping more than 30 people. The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and Police teams are at the accident site to rescue those trapped.
  2. A sudden brake applied to Puri-New Delhi Purushottam Express has killed two people. The driver pulled the emergency brakes after an overhead electric wire fell on it when the train was crossing Jharkhand’s Koderma district at 130 kmph.
  3. Stating, “Canada stands for the rule of law,” Canadian PM Trudeau has alleged again that his country reached out to India after it learned Indian agents could be involved in the murder of Hardeep Nijjar to get to the bottom of the case.
  4. The death toll in the Kalmassery blast at the Jehovah’s Witnesses Convention on October 29 has gone up to five. The fifth victim, a 45-year-old woman from Malayattoor Neeleeswaram Panchayat, succumbed to burn injuries on Saturday night.
  5. ED has alleged that key players of the Mahadev Betting App, Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal, were involved in match-fixing through ‘Khiladi App’ and other portals, adding they rerouted money generated in crores through Hawala networks and Bitcoin wallets.
  6. Tribal activists in Jharkhand want PM Modi to declare ‘Sarna’ a separate religion during his visit to the state. The PM will visit Ulihatu, Tribal Icon Birsa Munda’s birthplace, on Jharkhand Foundation Day on November 15.
  7. BSF and Punjab Police have recovered a China-made drone from a farm field in Nesta village in Amritsar. Security forces recovered similar China-made Pakistani quadcopter drones from the Tarn Taran and Firozpur districts this month.
  8. The Uttarakhand Government will hold a special assembly session post-Diwali to pass the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) to become the first state to implement UCC in the country after Independence.
  9. ‘Maharaja’ — Air India’s Generative AI Virtual Agent — has handed over 500,000 queries since March this year. Proficient in Hindi, English, French, and German, ‘Maharaja’ handles over 80 percent of the queries, forwarding the remaining to Air India’s contact centers.
  10. Diwali is not just a holiday in India but also in New York City. In June, Mayor Eric Adams announced Diwali as a holiday, bearing in mind the sizeable Indian-American community in the city.