The auger machine faced repeated obstructions over the past few days while drilling through the rubble to prepare an escape passage for the trapped men International Tunnelling and Underground Space ...

Uttarkashi: The authorities working round the clock to evacuate 41 workers trapped in a partially collapsed tunnel in Uttarkashi, brought out the damaged Auger machine on Saturday morning. The rest of ...

Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said he spoke with the trapped workers and they asked him to not worry about them as they have been doing fine. Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on ...

Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) [India], November 27 (ANI): As operations to rescue the 41 trapped workers at the Silkyara Tunnel collapse site entered day 16, there was some positive news with Micro ...

A member of the rescue team on Friday moves a digging machine for workers trapped an under-construction tunnel, days after it collapsed in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand. | Arun Sankar/ AFP ...

Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) [India], November 25 (ANI): Manual drilling will start soon to cut through the debris that separates rescuers from the 41 trapped workers in the collapsed portion of the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Principal Secretary P K Mishra and Uttarakhand Chief Secretary S S Sandhu will visit Silkyara on Monday to review the rescue operation Parts of the auger were left to be ...

The National Disaster Management Authority on Sunday said that work is on to retrieve broken parts of the auger machine and start manual digging while vertical drilling has also started to bring out ...

The government and rescue agencies may use manual excavation to complete the remaining portion of digging in the under-construction Silkyara tunnel. The auger machine has faced obstacles due to steel ...

DEHRADUN: The 41 labourers who have been stranded in the under-construction tunnel at Silkyara in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district for the past 12 days may have to spend another night underground as ...

As operations to rescue the 41 trapped workers at the Silkyara Tunnel collapse site entered day 16, there was some positive news with Micro tunnelling expert Chris Cooper saying that all the debris of ...