The funeral was held on Saturday evening after members of the public paid their last respects
The Affected Citizens of Teesta group seeks a fresh Environmental Impact Assessment and Social Impact Assessment for all hydropower projects, including NHPC’s Stage-VI, where 22 workers died in a tunnel on July 20
District officials said the search and rescue operation was concluded in the evening
The deceased, Aneesh Mohan, 43, was a native of Pathazhakkuzhy, Velloor, near Pampady, in Kottayam
Officials said personnel of multiple agencies, including those specialising in coal-bearing areas, conducted operations until midnight on Wednesday under difficult condition
The costs of projects in environmentally fragile zones are many
The tunnel under construction collapsed following an explosion in the ‘Head Race Tunnel’ and a geologist from Kottayam is feared trapped inside the tunnel after a landslide blocked its entrance
According to an NHPC statement, a sudden burst of suspected methane gas trapped/embedded inside the rocks led to the explosion, generating dense fumes and toxic gases
Methane trapped inside rock is suspected to have triggered the fatal blast. But how does this happen?
Fifteen Indian workers were feared trapped on Tuesday after a blast caused by a suspected gas leak in a tunnel at a hydroelectric project in the rugged state of Sikkim killed 10, authorities said. Monday’s incident took place at state-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corp’s (NHPC) project on the Teesta river in the northeastern state’s village of Samardung, district official Subash Ghimirey said. A sudden burst of gas suspected to be methane trapped or embedded in rocks in the tunnel caused...
The workers were trapped inside the under-construction tunnel after a landslide blocked its entrance and triggered a suspected gas leak, officials said
The landslide also triggered a suspected gas leak inside the Samardung tunnel, police said
Muk Hang Limboo says an apparent geolocation anomaly on X indicates that the Sikkim capital is a part of the Uyghur-dominated province of China