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New Delhi: Rescue operations are near a breakthrough as the pipe has to be pushed for another two metres to reach the 41 workers who have been trapped in the Silkyara tunnel for 16 days, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said Tuesday. As many...

Uttarkashi: Rescue workers broke through the 60-metre stretch of rubble in Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand Tuesday, ending the ordeal of 41 workers trapped inside for 16 days. A senior Uttarakhand official at the site said drilling was complete. Asked by reporters, NHIDCL managing director Mahmood...

Uttarkashi: Pipes have been inserted up to 52 metres through the rubble at Silkyara tunnel, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said Tuesday as efforts to rescue the 41 workers trapped there continued for the 17th day. The breakthrough point is 57 metres, he told...

Uttarkashi: Rescuers at Silkyara tunnel have crossed the 50-metre mark and they need to dig through around 10 metres of rubble using rat-hole mining technique to bring out the 41 workers trapped there for the last 16 days. Twelve rat-hole mining experts are involved in...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's close aide and former IAS officer V Karthikeyan Pandian Monday formally joined the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Pandian joined the regional party in the presence of the chief minister, state ministers, lawmakers and senior BJD leaders at Naveen...

Uttarkashi: The National Disaster Management Authority 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 41 workers trapped in Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi for the last 14...

Uttarkashi: A plasma cutter was flown in from Hyderabad 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 14 days. A complete disengagement of the machine is...

Kochi: Four students were killed in a stampede that ensued during a university annual festival here Saturday night. According to preliminary reports, students inside the Cochin University campus here were enjoying a live musical event of well-known singer Nikita Gandhi which was interrupted by sudden...

Dehradun: The rescue operation was halted Saturday on the 14th day to bring out 41 trapped workers from Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel after the blades of the auger machine blades got stuck in the rubble. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the auger machine's...

Uttarkashi: The auger machine engaged for drilling through the rubble at the Silkyara tunnel to rescue 41 trapped workers has busted, international tunneling expert Arnold Dix said Saturday. "Augering is finished...The auger is broken, destructed," he told reporters in Silkyara. The auger machine was facing...