The Hindu Morning Digest, March 2, 2025

U.K.’s Starmer embraces Zelenskyy; says, ‘we stand with you, with Ukraine’ British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday and told him he had the U.K.’s unwavering support, a day after the blowout at the White House with President Donald Trump. Amit Shah chairs review meeting on Manipur’s security Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday chaired a high-level review meeting in New Delhi with top security officials over the security situation in Manipur, during which he directed them to ensure free movement of people on all roads across the State from March 8 onwards. Wait gets longer for kin, co-workers as finding those trapped in SLBC tunnel prolongs The agonising wait of the family members and co-workers of the 8 persons buried alive about 14 km inside the Srisailam Left Bank Canal tunnel on February 22 morning is getting longer, despite the ground probing radar scanning identifying the soft material under the debris of the tunnel boring machine and beneath the muck in the area beside it. Uttarakhand avalanche: Four BRO workers killed; 4 still trapped as rescue continues amidst heavy snowfall Four civilian workers were still missing, likely trapped under six feet of ice, as night fell on Saturday, two days after an avalanche hit a Border Roads Organisation building site at Mana village in Uttarkhand.