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Snapshot of the day

November 13, 2023

Pratik Kanjilal

About 40 construction workers in Uttarkashi are trapped by debris after a tunnel they were building collapsed on Sunday morning. The tunnel, which is part of the controversialb Char Dham all-weather road project, was hit by debris from a nearby landslide. Its collapse cut off the air supply of the trapped workers. Efforts to evacuate them are underway and rescuers have been able to provide them with food, water and oxygen. Given the fragile ecology of the Himalayas, he road project has been criticised on environmental grounds. But in 2021 the Supreme Court brushed aside these concerns citing security grounds – a dodgy argument the government made when it