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Uttarakhand tunnel: Option of manual drilling being considered
Uttarkashi: With the auger machine encountering hurdles in the rubble time and again, rescuers are considering switching over to manual drilling at the Silkyara tunnel where 41 labourers have been trapped for…
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Uttarakhand tunnel: Mock drill to demonstrate extraction process held
Uttarkashi: The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel on Friday carried out a demonstration of the movement of wheeled stretchers through the pipeline inserted to extricate 41 workers trapped in a portion…
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Timeline: 12 days since Uttarakhand tunnel collapse, rescue ops put on hold again
Dehradun: As the rescue operations to evacuate 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi district entered the twelfth day on Thursday, it faced a fresh hurdle. Drilling had to be…
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Uttarakhand tunnel rescue operations enter final stretch; iron hurdle removed
Uttarkashi: Rescue operations to evacuate 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel entered the final stretch early Thursday after a late-night hitch when the machine drilling the escape passage through the rubble…
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Silkyara tunnel collapse: PM dials up Uttarakhand CM Dhami, enquires about rescue ops
New Delhi: Amid ongoing efforts to rescue 41 trapped workers from Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday once again spoke to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami over the phone…
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Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Location for vertical drilling identified
Uttarkashi: The location has been identified for vertical drilling to bring out 41 workers trapped inside Silkyara Tunnel, 11 days after the under-construction structure collapsed. As per the Director of National Highways…
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Video: Workers trapped inside collapsed Uttarakhand tunnel
Uttarkashi: Rescuers on Tuesday released the first video of the workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel here for 10 days. The visuals were captured using an endoscopic camera sent in through the…
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Tunneling a Lifeline: Bigger Pipeline Offers Hope in Uttarakhand Rescue Efforts
Uttarkashi: Rescuers on Monday pushed through a six-inch-wide pipeline through the rubble of the collapsed Silkyara tunnel, a breakthrough that will help them supply larger quantities of food and possibly allow live…
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Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Govt has undertaken 5-option plan to rescue trapped workers
New Delhi: The government has undertaken a five-option action plan to rescue 41 workers trapped at Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarkashi, since November 12, Road, Transport and Highways Secretary Anurag Jain said on…
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Uttarakhand tunnel rescue work halted; drilling machine awaited
Uttarkashi: The ongoing drilling work to reach the 40 trapped workers inside the Silkyara tunnel was halted on Saturday after the rescuers bored 25 metres into the rubble, a top official said.…
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Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: IAF airlifts critical equipment
New Delhi: Amid rescue operations underway in Uttarakhand at the Silkyara tunnel site, a C-17 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force has been deployed to airlift almost 22 tonnes of critical…
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Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: All eight trapped UP workers safe
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has said that all the eight workers from the state, who are among those trapped in the collapsed under-construction tunnel in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi, are safe and efforts…
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Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Communication established with trapped workers
Uttarkashi: Rescuers who worked overnight to rescue around 40 workers trapped after an under-construction tunnel on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri National Highway collapsed here have established contact with them and provided them with food…
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Uttarakhand: Under construction tunnel collapses, 36 workers trapped
Uttarkashi: A portion of a tunnel under construction between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri national highway here collapsed on Sunday morning, trapping 36 workers inside, officials said. Police, National Disaster Response…
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Uttarakhand: Temples including Badrinath & Kedarnath doors close due to lunar eclipse
Haridwar: The doors of temples across Uttarakhand, including Badrinath and Kedarnath, were closed on Saturday evening for the ‘Sutak’ period of the last lunar eclipse of this year which occurred after midnight.…