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Indian tunnel rescue set to take much longer after drill damaged

SILKYARA, India, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Rescuing 41 workers trapped in a highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas for two weeks will take much longer than previously hoped as rescuers are switching to manual drilling following damage to machinery, officials said on Saturday. The heavy drill brought in to break through nearly 60 meters of debris was damaged on Friday and was being pulled out entirely, government officials said, adding the last 10-15 metres would have to be broken with hand-held power tools. The men, construction workers from some of India’s poorest states, have been stuck in the 4.5-km (3-mile)

Cash for query row: CBI initiates investigation against TMC MP Mahua Moitra

New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI): The CBI has initiated an investigation against TMC MP Mahua Moitra to look into ‘quid pro quo’ allegations of raising questions in Parliament, sources said on Saturday. In this regard, a senior CBI official said that no Preliminary Enquiry (PE) has been registered however an investigation has been initiated as the matter was referred by the anti-corruption body Lokpal. “We are enquiring into the matter that was sent to us by Lokpal. We have yet to gather more details into the matter,” the CBI official told ANI. Mahua Moitra is facing the heat of

Unique punishment for delay: Officers ordered to serve students with disabilities

New Delhi, Nov 25 (PTI) The Disability Affairs Department has meted out a unique punishment to the officers — serve students with disabilities for five days — found responsible for delaying by four years updating the category of an employee to PwD in the service book. Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities Rajesh Aggarwal expressed strong disapproval of state-owned MTNL’s failure to just change the category of the complainant employee from General to the PwD. Through an interim order on November 16 whose copy was shared with PTI, the Chief Commissioner has issued the unique recommendation aimed at fostering awareness

Reducing calorie intake could slow down aging

Nov 25, 2023 – A new study says we can slow down aging by 2% to 3% if we lower the number of calories we eat by 25%. That may seem like a little benefit for a large cut in calories. But experts say it’s actually a pretty big deal. “In other studies, that same difference in pace of aging had meaningful consequences for people’s risk of dying,” says senior study author Daniel W. Belsky, PhD, a researcher at the Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. Cutting calories by 25%

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