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World Health Organization said Sunday it had led an assessment mission to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and determined it was a «death zone», urging a full evacuation. "WHO and partners are urgently developing plans for the immediate evacuation of the remaining patients, staff and their families," the United Nations health agency said in a statement, adding that 291 patients and 25 health workers remained inside the hospital. WHO said it had headed a joint UN team, including public health experts, logistics officers and security staff from a range of agencies on a short and «very high-risk» mission into the hospital on Saturday. The assessment team had gone into Al-Shifa after the Israeli military had earlier ordered the evacuation of some 2,500 displaced people sheltering on the hospital grounds, WHO said. «They, along with a number of mobile patients and hospital staff, had already vacated the facility by the time of the team's arrival,» the statement said. Columns of sick and injured — some of them amputees — were seen making their way out of Al-Shifa hospital Saturday towards the seafront without ambulances along with displaced people, doctors and nurses, as loud explosions were heard around the complex. The UN assessment team was meanwhile only able to spend an hour inside the hospital due to the security situation. The team, WHO said, described the hospital as a «death zone» and the situation as «desperate». — 'Mass grave' - «Signs of shelling and gunfire were evident.

The Washington Post on Saturday, US President Joe Biden dismissed increasing ceasefire calls for Gaza, asserting that it won't bring about peace. He wrote, "As long as Hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease-fire is not peace.

Silkyara tunnel collapse site in Uttarakhand's hilly district Uttarkashi since last Sunday. Rescuers, including geologists, engineers, tunnelling experts and geotechnical experts, have been exploring various options to evacuate the 41 labourers who are trapped inside the collapsed tunnel. Till Saturday afternoon, the road ahead for the rescuers turned more difficult after a loud cracking sound they heard at the site a day earlier. The drilling exercise has already come to a halt.

Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand): Their voices are getting weaker, their strength seemingly dimming, those keeping vigil outside the Silkyara tunnel here said on Saturday after speaking to their relatives trapped inside for seven days — and counting. The under-construction tunnel on the Char Dham route collapsed on Sunday morning with 41 labourers inside it. As the hours tick by, the desperation of families waiting outside is mounting.

Gaza Strip on Saturday, ending a telecommunications blackout that forced the United Nations to shut down critical humanitarian aid deliveries because it was unable to coordinate its convoys. Meantime, an Israeli airstrike hit a residential building on the outskirts of the town of Khan Younis, killing at least 26 Palestinians, according to a doctor at the hospital where the bodies were taken. Early in the war, the Israeli military told civilians to flee northern Gaza, the target of its ground offensive, but also kept up its bombardment in the southern evacuation zone where Khan Younis is located. Israel has signalled plans to expand its offensive south while continuing operations in the north, including Gaza City, where troops were still searching the territory's biggest hospital, Shifa, for traces of a Hamas command centre that Israel alleges was located under the building — a claim Hamas and the hospital staff deny. In Khan Younis, the attack early Saturday hit Hamad City, a middle-class housing development built in recent years with funding from Qatar. In addition to the 26 people killed, another 20 were wounded, said Dr.

Al-Shifa hospital «in the next hour» over loudspeakers on Saturday, an AFP journalist at the scene reported. They called the hospital's director, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, to instruct him to ensure «the evacuation of patients, wounded, the displaced and medical staff, and that they should move on foot towards the seafront», he told AFP. (More to come)

Midhili" is presently situated over the Northeast Bay of Bengal, near the coast of Bangladesh. Meanwhile, following substantial rainfall on Friday, government authorities in several northeastern states issued alerts as a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal escalated into a cyclonic storm. The initial day of Meghalaya's Cherry Blossom Festival faced disruptions due to adverse weather conditions, impacting festivities.

United Nations official on Friday renewed calls for a «humanitarian ceasefire» to allow aid to reach the 2.2 million people trapped in the bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas. «Call it what you will, but the requirement, from a humanitarian point of view, is simple. Stop the fighting to allow civilians to move safely,» UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said in an address to the UN General Assembly. «We are not asking for the moon,» Griffiths said.

They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbors.

United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza on Friday and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel. Israel announced that it will allow for the first time two tanker trucks of fuel daily into Gaza for the U.N. and communications systems.

coal ministry aims a 14% reduction in rail logistics cost through railway network optimization for coal logistics, the government said Friday, a day after the 60th meeting of the Network Planning Group (NPG). “The meeting focused on discussions on Sectoral Plan for efficient Logistics (SPEL)by individual line ministries/departments,” the commerce and industry ministry said in a statement. This initiative, among the various initiatives proposed under the Comprehensive Logistics Action Plan (CLAP) of National Logistics Policy (NLP), was proposed to ensure that a focused approach is taken in addressing logistics-related requirements at the individual sector level. The ministries of steel and coal presented their plans to address logistics issues pertaining to infrastructure, processes, digital improvements, policies and regulatory reforms, and capacity building for a better workforce. Steel ministry outlined their SPEL approach, encompassing in-depth supply and demand analysis for iron ore and steel, forecasted requirements up to 2030-31 and beyond, and strategic planning for future readiness in logistics.

magnitude 6.7 earthquake rattled the southern Philippine region of Mindanao on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said, and while there were no immediate reports of casualties, authorities warned of damage. The quake struck off the shore of Mindanao, near General Santos City at a depth of 60 km (37.3 miles), GFZ said. The German agency earlier reported the magnitude at 6.9. The Philippine seismology agency PHIVOLCS and the Pacific Tsunamic Warning Center said a tsunami was not expected. Amor Mio, police chief of Koronadal city, near the quake's epicentre, said there were no reports of casualties but officials were checking a shopping mall reported to have been damaged. «The employees were ordered evacuated for their safety.

rescue operation for the safe evacuation of the 40 trapped labourers at the under-construction Silkyara collapse site in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district is going on in its full swing. “As of now 22.0 meter pipe pushing has been completed Positioning of fifth pipe is under progress,” a report, issued by National Highways and Infrastructural Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) on Friday morning, said. NHIDCL is involved in the rescue operation.

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collapsed tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarakhand has entered sixth today on Friday. A heavy-duty drilling machine began the process of digging through the debris of the collapsed tunnel and rescuing the trapped workers. Officials said that a six-meter section of a steel pipe had been inserted into the bored passage.

Lubna Nazir Shaboo, an Indian national from Jammu & Kashmir living in Gaza, and her daughter Karima, crossed the Rafah border (between Gaza and Egypt) on Monday evening, with the help of Indian diplomatic missions in the region and reached the Egyptian capital the next day, the report said. “I safely crossed over from Gaza at the Rafah border and am now awaiting my return to Kashmir," PTI quoted Shabooas saying from Cairo. The return journey plan was in the works, she added.

A fire in a coal company building in a northern Chinese city has killed 26 people and injured at least 38

SJVN on Wednesday said the first unit of 30 MW capacity at Naitwar Mori hydro electric project has started supplying power to the national electricity grid. SJVN Chairman & Managing Director Nand Lal Sharma said in a statement that the SJVN has successfully synchronised the first unit of the 60 MW (30MWx2) Naitwar Mori Hydro Electric Project (NMHEP) with the National Grid. Naitwar Mori Hydro Electric Project is located on River Tons, a major tributary of the Yamuna in Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand.

Workers chanted slogans at the mouth of the tunnel on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri National Highway, protesting over the «slow» pace of the operation to rescue their colleagues trapped inside for over 72 hours now. The plan was to use an 'auger machine' to drill through the rubble of the tunnel's collapsed portion and insert 800-mm and 900-mm diameter sections of mild steel pipes — one after the other. Once this happens, the workers trapped on the other side of the rubble can crawl out to safety.

«If everything goes as planned, the trapped labourers will be evacuated by Wednesday,» he said after visiting the tunnel and taking an update on the operations from officials at the site. Most of the day went into preparing a platform inside the tunnel to position the auger machine for drilling through the rubble. The drilling machine and the pipes arrived at the site early on Tuesday.

are in al-Arish (a city in Egypt). Tomorrow morning (Tuesday), they will move to Cairo," Lubna's husband Nedal Toman said in a text message sent to PTI from Gaza. The Rafah crossing near Egypt remains the only exit route from the war-hit Gaza as Israeli troops continue to surround the city.