Images released by the Defence PRO on the social network X showed the extreme difficulty in which the IBEX Brigade operated all through February 28, extricating the BRO labourers trapped under several feet of snow, then trudging through the deep snow with stretchers on their shoulders. By March 1 morning, the weather conditions had improved and helicopter evacuation had begun.

Uttarakhand avalanche: Helicopter ops start a day after BRO camp gets buried in snow; dozens rescued, many still trapped

Helicopter evacuation has begun in Chamoli district, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, on March 1, after a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) camp was buried in an avalanche on February 28, trapping 55 people under deep snow.

India denounces Pakistan as “failed state” at UN Human Rights Council

India exercised its Right of Reply at the high-level segment of the 58th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday to lodge a strong retort to Pakistan after it raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at the multilateral global organisation.

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