The Jharkhand government rolled out the red carpet and gave a hero’s welcome to the 15 workers and 12 of their kin who were stranded for 17 days in the collapsed Silkyara tunnel at Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand as they landed at Ranchi’s Birsa Munda International Airport. Read more about their rescue and the grand welcome in Ranchi.
Twenty One Panchayat representatives of Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu reached Birni block of Giridih, where the villagers welcomed them by showering flowers.
All these members inspected the development works of Kapilo Panchayat of Birni block and appreciated the work of the head. Kapilo
Chief Minister Hemant Soren today said that the Government (at the Centre) seem to have no good sensitivity towards labourers, trapped in the under construction tunnel in Uttarkashi. He said that the safety of workers should be kept in top priority in such big construction projects.
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The Governor Ahmed Aliyu-led Sokoto State government has said it inherited an empty treasury and no single note was handed over to them by the last administration of Aminu Tambuwal. This was disclosed by the state deputy governor, Engineer Idris Gobir while responding to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, who asked how the government was able to execute 100 projects in his first 100 days in office during a condolence visit to the state on Thursday.