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Uttarakhand. The rescue team is considering alternatives including a perpendicular tunnel with two proposed routes and insertion of a pipe six inches (15 cm) wide, reported Reuters. Being inside for nearly 130 hours, 41 men are now grappling with health issues, including constipation, headaches and growing anxiety and trauma induced by fear and claustrophobia, reported ToI. Five Plan strategy The rescue team is now focusing on five new plans for the workers.

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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.

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Catch LIVE updates of Uttarkashi tunnel collapse recue operation with LivemintThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the authorities concerned, including the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL), on a petition claiming lack of some protection works on the Gangotri National Highway in Uttarkashi district of Uttrakhand.According to the petition, NHIDCL failed to take action for the construction of a landslide protection gallery, slope protection work and river protection work.The 4531-metre Silkyara Tunnel is part of the Chardham Project of Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and will link the Gangotri and Yamunotri axis under the Radi pass area.Another high-performance drilling machine airlifted from Indore in Madhya Pradesh arrived in Silkyara on Saturday where its three parts will be assembled before it is deployed for drilling, officials on the spot said. Meanwhile, the number of workers who have been trapped inside the tunnel since Sunday has been revised to 41.

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.

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collapsed highway tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district on Friday temporarily suspended the rescue operation after hearing a sudden "cracking sound" and the drilling machine developed a snag. The state-run National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) stated that a "large-scale cracking sound" was heard during efforts to restart the drilling machine. The sound "created a panic situation in the tunnel and the team working.

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Also read: Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Without food, one can survive for…, an official on how they are helping 40 trapped labourers The machine stopped working after its bearings were “damaged". The drilling couldn't make any progress after 9 am on Friday as the machine ceased to work anymore at 22 meters. The machine was deployed at around 10:30 am on Thursday after the previous machine got damaged due to a landslide.

Uttarkashi, NHIDCL Director Anshu Manish Khalkho said the delay was due to the fragile nature of the location. Explaining to the reporters, Khalkho said, "Where you feel the fragile nature and vibration needs to be taken care of equilibrium also has to be maintained.

And according to a study published Thursday in the journalScience, we're not alone: bonobos team up with outsiders too, in everything from grooming to food sharing, even forming alliances against sexual aggressors. Lead author Liran Samuni of the German Primate Center in Gottingen told AFP that studying the primates offered a «window into our past,» possibly signaling an evolutionary basis for how our own species began wider-scale collaborative endeavors. Bonobos (Pan paniscus) are our closest living relatives, alongside chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and the two species are also very closely related to each other. But while encounters between chimpanzee groups are inherently hostile and often result in lethal violence, interactions between bonobo parties hadn't been as well examined. That's because bonobos, an endangered species, are notoriously difficult to study in their natural habitat — and they live only in remote regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With research on chimps dominating the literature, some scientists assumed hostility against outsiders was innate to human nature — something we had perhaps trained ourselves to get past by inventing new social norms, even as that trait lurked deep inside.

World Cup final between India and Australia in Ahmedabad on Sunday. According to reports, Australia's PM Anthony Albanese invited to attend India Vs Australia World Cup final on Sunday and he has deputed Australian Deputy PM Richard Marles to attend the match which coincides with India, Australia 2+2 India will meet Australia in the final. Several players, including Virat Kohli, Mohammed Shami, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja, were spotted in the team bus in Ahmedabad.

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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.

Federal Reserve is done raising rates leaving the greenback headed for a weekly loss. A slew of weaker-than-expected U.S. economic data released this week, led by a slowdown in inflation, has reinforced market expectations that the Fed has reached the end of its aggressive monetary tightening cycle, with focus now on when the first rate cuts could begin. Market pricing shows just a 0.3% chance of another rate hike in December, as compared to a roughly 15% chance a week ago, with a 35% chance that the U.S.