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Watch: United Airlines Boeing 777 engine catches fire midair, dramatic visuals go viral

OpIndia Staff - 21 February, 2021

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that Flight 328, a United Airlines plane bound for Honolulu, suffered a failure in its right-hand engine.

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A phone call from a mother saved not only her son but around 25 others on the day of Uttarakhand floods: Read details

OpIndia Staff - 14 February, 2021

Mangshri Devi, the mother of Vipul Kaireni, kept on calling her son to inform him that she had seen a flooded Dhauliganga river

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Uttarakhand: Days after glacier burst tragedy, little ‘Blackie’ waits for his lost caretakers near Tapovan tunnel

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2021

Though rescue teams have been working ceaselessly, 30 people are still feared to be trapped inside the Tapovan tunnel

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Uttarakhand tragedy: UP CM Yogi Adityanath extends help, puts relief and rescue team on alert

OpIndia Staff - 8 February, 2021

The Yogi administration in Uttar Pradesh has directed all officials to extend all help possible to the Uttarakhand government.

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Uttarakhand disaster: Over 100 feared dead, relief and rescue operations on, Air Force, other disaster relief forces on standby

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2021

State Disaster Response Force DIG Ridhim Aggarwal said that more than 150 labourers working at the Rishi Ganga power project may have been directly affected.

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Glacier breaks in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district causing flash floods, people being evacuated

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2021

Rishiganga Power Project has been damaged due breach of a glacier in Tapovan area in Uttarakhand

Opinions

From the year without summer to Communism and diseases: With the disasters we have endured over centuries, was 2020 really that bad?

Sanghamitra - 30 December, 2020

For civilisations that have seen the plagues, earthquakes, colonisation and the atrocities of communist rules, the COVID outbreak is a minor ordeal that will soon be overcome.

2000 years old Roman-era food stall buried in volcanic ash unearthed in Pompeii in Italy

OpIndia Staff - 27 December, 2020

Italian archaeologists carrying out excavations in lost city Pompeii discovered a 'thermopolium' or Roman era fast-food counter

News Reports

Nepal creates hindrance in Bihar’s flood prevention work, state minister to approach MEA

OpIndia Staff - 22 June, 2020

Amidst the border standoff and escalating tensions between India and China, Nepal has reportedly erected barriers which is creating a hindrance in carrying out flood prevention work ahead of monsoon.

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Cyclone Nisarga to intensify in next 24 hours, likely to hit western coast on Wednesday

OpIndia Staff - 2 June, 2020

The deep depression - 'Cyclone Nisarga', which is headed towards the coasts in Maharashtra and Gujarat, is likely to hit the western coast on Wednesday.

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