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Uttarkashi: Rescue workers pulled out all 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel in a multi-agency rescue operation that hovered between hope and despair for almost 17 days.Union minister V K Singh and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami welcomed the workers as National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) men ...

From left to right - Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain, micro-tunnelling expert Chris Cooper, IAS officer Neeraj Khairwal and international tunneling expert Arnold Dix | Agencies As Indians await with bated breath the 41 workers to walk free out of the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi, where they ...

Indian authorities on Tuesday said they were close to saving 41 workers who have been trapped under the rubble of a collapsed tunnel for 16 days, after a long rescue effort punctuated by repeated setbacks. An ambulance was sent into a pathway created by excavators, as a trial to ...

Uttarkashi/New Delhi:Rat-hole mining experts called in to help rescue 41 workers trapped inside the collapsed Silkyara tunnel began manual drilling Monday through the rubble. Simultaneously, vertical drilling from above the tunnel has reached a depth of 36 metres out of the 86 metres needed. Twelve rat-hole mining experts will ...

The collapse of the Silkyara Tunnel in northern India has prompted a massive rescue effort to reach 41 construction workers. India's government isa also taking steps aimed at avoiding similar incidents in the future. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which builds and manages has been ordered to inspect all tunnel ...

The collapse of the Silkyara Tunnel in northern India has prompted a massive rescue effort to reach 41 construction workers. India's government isa also taking steps aimed at avoiding similar incidents in the future. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which builds and manages has been ordered to inspect all tunnel ...

New Delhi: Billionaire Gautam Adani’s group on Monday said it has no direct or indirect involvement in the construction of Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel, where 41 construction workers are trapped since it collapsed more than two weeks back. In a statement, an Adani group spokesperson said the conglomerate does not ...

Uttarkashi: The remaining parts of the auger machine stuck in the rubble at Silkyara tunnel, where 41 labourers have been stranded for the last 15 days, were removed early on Monday. Manual drilling will now start at the tunnel to prepare an escape passage for the trapped workers. Prime ...

New Delhi, Nov 24 : Pipe-laying through the rubble to prepare an escape route for workers trapped at the Silkyara tunnel remained stalled on Friday morning with the platform on which the drilling machine stands being stabilised by shotcreting, an official said.Boring through the rubble was put on hold ...

New Delhi, Nov 23 : Saying that rescue efforts have entered the final stages at the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, a senior officer has said that they will reach the 41 trapped workers by Thursday morning.The workers have been trapped since November 12 when the under-construction tunnel from Silkyara ...