Uttarkashi, November 28 As the trapped workers emerged from the Uttarkashi tunnel on Wednesday night, some with smiling faces and others looking grateful and exhausted at the end of the 17-day ordeal, the nation took a collective sigh of relief....
Uttarkashi, November 28 As the trapped workers emerged from the Uttarkashi tunnel on Wednesday night, some with smiling faces and others looking grateful and exhausted at the end of the 17-day ordeal, the nation took a collective sigh of relief....
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 28 Behind efforts to rescue 41 trapped workers, a mission which tunnelling expert Arnold Dix described as phenomenal, was the team work of the best of technical brains across public and private sectors. While many...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 28 The technique behind rat-hole coal mining, a practice that was banned by the National Green Tribunal in 2014 for being unsafe, came to the rescue of 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in...
Neeraj Mohan Uttarkashi, November 28 In a remarkable feat, the 400-hour ordeal of 41 construction workers trapped in the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel here reached a positive conclusion this evening. The unprecedented rescue operation, the first of its kind in the country,...
Uttarkashi, November 28 Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday said none of the 41 labourers rescued from an under-construction road tunnel in Uttarkashi district was in a critical condition. Dhami also said the evacuation began with the youngest...
Dehradun, November 28 Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday said disasters cannot be stopped but their impact can be reduced by advance preparedness and asserted that “proactive approach” is the only way to deal with them. Addressing the...
Uttarkashi, November 28 After almost 17 days of intense efforts by multiple agencies, all 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel here have been evacuated. Following is a timeline of the disaster and the rescue efforts: November 12: The labourers...
Uttarkashi, November 28 In a remarkable feat, the 400-hour ordeal of 41 construction workers trapped in the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel here reached a positive conclusion on Tuesday evening. The unprecedented rescue operation, a first of its kind in the country,...
New Delhi, November 28 Rat-hole mining may be illegal but the talent and experience of rat-hole miners were used in the rescue operation to save the 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel, a National Disaster Management Authority member said...
Uttarkashi, November 28 With just five metres left to achieve a breakthrough in digging through the rubble of the Silkyara tunnel, preparations got underway on Tuesday to rush the trapped workers to a hospital for immediate medical care following their...
Uttarkashi/New Delhi, November 28 Rescue workers on Tuesday were close to breaking through the 60-metre stretch of rubble of the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand in which 41 workers are trapped for the last 16 days, officials said. At the...
Uttarkashi/New Delhi, November 27 Rescuers had bored 36 metre into the hill above the Silkyara tunnel by Monday evening in their effort to reach 41 workers trapped inside for 15 days as rat-hole mining experts also reached the disaster site...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 27 Top officials of the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s principal secretary PK Mishra conducted an on spot review of rescue efforts at the partially collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi and assured trapped...
Uttarkashi, November 27 Vertical drilling from the top of the Silkyara tunnel, where 41 workers have been trapped for the last 15 days, progressed to 31 metres on Monday as a team of rat-hole miners arrived at the site to...
Neeraj Mohan New Delhi, November 26 With the US-made auger machine failing to meet its objective after facing technical snags and stalling at 46.8 metres during horizontal drilling, the rescuers have switched to vertical drilling from hilltop, frustrating efforts to...
Uttarkashi, November 26 Two BRO officials were injured after their SUV was hit by a private bus near the Silkyara tunnel site on Sunday afternoon, police said. The accident occurred just half a km away from the tunnel, where 41...
Uttarkashi, November 26 “Once he comes out, we will never allow him to work here again,” a distraught Chaudhary said on Sunday, waiting for the rescue of his son, who has been stuck inside the collapsed tunnel in Silkyara along...
Uttarkashi/New Delhi, November 26 Rescuers began drilling into the hill above the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel Sunday, boring nearly 20 metres on the first day of adopting the new approach to reach 41 workers trapped inside for 14 days. The vertical approach...
Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand), November 26 A plasma cutter was flown in from Hyderabad on Sunday to cut and remove parts of the auger machine stuck in the rubble inside the Silkyara tunnel where 41 labourers have been stranded for the last...
Neeraj Mohan Silkyara (Uttarkashi), Nov 25 Faced with persistent technical obstacles impeding the US-made horizontal drilling machine’s progress beyond 46.8 metres, the rescue operation encountered another day of setbacks on Saturday, forcing the rescuers to work on Plan B —...
Uttarkashi, November 25 With the rescue operations at Silkyara tunnel facing hurdles, the authorities here have given mobile phones and board games to the 41 trapped workers to alleviate their stress, an official said on Saturday. The blades of the...
Uttarkashi, November 25 A landline facility has been set up at the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi to keep trapped workers connected with their family members, officials said on Saturday. The facility has been set up by the BSNL and a...
New Delhi, November 25 The operation to rescue 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel may take a long time with the auger machine for horizontal drilling facing repeated hurdles and rescuers are now preparing to start vertical drilling, the...
Neeraj Mohan Silkyara, November 25 In the face of persistent technical challenges preventing the US-made horizontal drilling machine from advancing beyond 46.8 metres, rescuers are now exploring the option of vertical drilling to facilitate the rescue of 41 workers trapped...
Uttarkashi, November 23 As the rescue operations to evacuate 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi district entered the thirteenth day on Friday, it faced yet another setback. The auger drilling machine hit a metal girder in the...
Uttarkashi, November 24 Drilling at the collapsed Silkyara tunnel to rescue 41 men trapped inside for 12 days was halted again on Friday, in yet another setback to the multi-agency effort. An official said the auger drilling machine faced a...
Neeraj Mohan Silkyara, November 24 “By any means, we will bring out brave workers trapped in Silkyara tunnel,” NDMA member Lt Gen (retd) Syed Ata Hasnain said as the operation to evacuate trapped workers entered in the last phase. NDMA...
Uttarkashi, November 23 Boring through the rubble of the collapsed Silkyara tunnel was put on hold again Thursday apparently after cracks appeared in the platform on which the drilling machine rests, in a fresh hurdle to the rescue of 41...
New Delhi, November 23 National Disaster Management Authority on Thursday said it would not be fair to speculate on the timeline for rescue operations at Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand as it is just like fighting a war. Briefing media about...
Uttarkashi/New Delhi, November 22 Ambulances were on standby and a special ward at a local health centre kept ready as a multi-agency effort to rescue 41 men trapped in the Silkyara tunnel appeared close to success on Wednesday evening. Till...