Search For "tunnel collapse"
Uttarkashi tunnel rescue: 31 metres of vertical drilling work done so far
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The vertical drilling from the top of the hill makes swift progress as 31 metres of drilling work has been completed so far out of the 86 metres needed to reach the 41 trapped workers in the Silkyara tunnel, as per officials.
Read More
"This is Uttarakhand govt's indolence and negligence," Congress leader Yas
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Uttarakhand Congress leader Yashpal Arya on Sunday lashed out at the Uttarakhand-led government over the ongoing Silkyara tunnel collapse rescue and said that the incident reveals the government's "indolence and negligence."
Read More
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: Rescuers make 8-metre progress through vertical
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
With vertical drilling underway to further aid the rescue of the trapped workers in Silkyara tunnel, the rescuers managed to make progress over a distance of 8 metres down the ground in the last one and a half hours.
Read More
"I do not want my son to work in tunnel," says father of Uttar Pradesh wor
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Resuce operations have been halted after a machine got stuck inside the tunnel, dashing the hopes of the workers to see the light of day.
Read More
Arnold Dix calls tunnel collapse in Uttarkashi 'unusual occurrence', sugge
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
International tunnelling expert Arnold Dix said that there was no clue of a collapse in the area where the incident happened, in which 41 workers have been trapped for two weeks, while urging to investigate the matter.
Read More
"Plasma cutter to aid removal of Auger machine, blades from debris": Micro
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A day after the ongoing efforts to rescue 41 trapped workers from the collapsed portion of the under-construction Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi hit fresh hurdles, micro-tunnelling expert Chris Cooper on Sunday said the rescuers were removing smaller as well as bigger pieces of debris from
Read More
Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: CM Dhami meets family of trapped workers
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami visited on Sunday the family of Pushkar Singh Airi, a worker from Tanakpur who has been trapped in the Silkyara tunnel for the last 15 days.
Read More
Magna rod cutter machine deployed to speed up Uttarakhand tunnel rescue op
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The plasma cutter machine was brought to the Silkyara tunnel early in the morning.The process of removing the auger machine was underway even before the new machine arrived at the site.
Read More
Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Plasma cutter flown from Hyderabad to cut aug
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
National Disaster Management Authority Member, Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain (retired) on Saturday said that there has been no movement in the last 24 hours in the drilling work to rescue the 41 workers trapped in the Uttarkashi tunnel for 13 days.
Read More
Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: BSNL steps in to provide landline phone to ena
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
As part of efforts to provide assurance to 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel and relieve their stress, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has stepped in to provide them with a landline through which they can talk to their families.
Read More
CPI MP writes to PM Modi, expresses concern over 41 workers trapped in Utt
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Communist Party of India MP Binoy Viswam has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the collapse of the under-construction Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in which 41 workers are trapped and said development activities in the Himalayan ecosystem should be undertaken after careful
Read More
"No movement in last 24 hours...vertical drilling could commence in 48 hou
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
National Disaster Management Authority Member, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Saturday said that there has been no movement in the last 24 hours in the drilling work to rescue the 41 workers trapped in the Uttarkashi tunnel for 13 days.
Read More