Ex-VP Dhankhar, LoPs Kharge, Rahul attend R-Day parade
New Delhi (PTI): Former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and leaders of the Opposition in both houses of Parliament Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi attended the Republic Day parade function at Kartavya Path on Monday.
Dhankhar was seated in the front row alongside Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge.
Kharge was earlier seen seated in the third row with Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and Chief Justice of India Surya Kant were also among the guests.
Several Union ministers, including Home Minister Amit Shah, Health Minister J P Nadda, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, also marked their presence at the ceremonial event among other senior bureaucrats and dignitaries.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta and BJP President Nitin Nabin were also seen in the gathering. A large number of diplomats were present too.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
