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Families of trapped workers anxious as tunnel rescue hits setback
Ormanjhi: In Khirabeda, the anxiety has now reached its peak as three people from this nondescript village on the outskirts of Ranchi are still stuck in the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand…
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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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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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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…