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"Vertical drilling of 19.2 meters completed...": NHIDCL MD on Uttarkashi t
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) Managing Director Mahmood Ahmad on Sunday informed that a total of 19.2 meters of vertical drilling has been completed at Uttarkashi's tunnel where 41 workers remained trapped.
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"86 meters of vertical drilling required to reach tunnel's crust": NDMA on
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
National Disaster Management Authority Member, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Sunday said that 86 meters of vertical drilling is required to reach the crust of the Uttarkashi's tunnel where 41 workers remained trapped adding that 17 meters of the drilling has already taken place.
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Indian Army's engineer regiment called in for manual drilling at Uttarkash
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The Indian Army has been called in at Uttarkashi's Silkyara tunnel for manual drilling at the site where 41 workers have remained trapped for the past 15 days.
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Vertical drilling of Uttarkashi tunnel begins to rescue 41 trapped workers
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The vertical drilling to rescue the trapped workers in the Silkyara tunnel, which was halted earlier today, has been resumed and the rescuers have managed to make progress over a distance of 17 metres from the hill above the tunnel.
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Vertical drilling underway to rescue workers trapped in Uttarkashi tunnel
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Vertical drilling, one of the several chalked-out options to bring out 41 workers who have been trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi since November 12, finally started on Sunday afternoon.
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Magna rod cutter machine deployed to speed up Uttarakhand tunnel rescue op
Updated : 2 years, 4 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.
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Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Plasma cutter flown from Hyderabad to cut aug
Updated : 2 years, 4 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.
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Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: BSNL steps in to provide landline phone to ena
Updated : 2 years, 4 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.
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CPI MP writes to PM Modi, expresses concern over 41 workers trapped in Utt
Updated : 2 years, 4 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
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"Confident that they will be home in time for Christmas": Arnold Dix expre
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Expressing hope about the safe return of the 41 workers by Christmas festival who are trapped in Uttarkashi's Silkyara tunnel, International Tunneling Expert Arnold Dix on Saturday said that he does not exactly know about the timeline on when will the rescue operation be successful adding th
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"No movement in last 24 hours...vertical drilling could commence in 48 hou
Updated : 2 years, 4 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.
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"This operation is getting technically more complex": NDMA on Uttarkashi t
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
A member of the National Disaster Management Authority, Lt General (Rtd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Saturday said that the rescue operation at Uttarkashi's Silkyara tunnel has become technically complex adding that rescuers are working in an environment of unpredictability.
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