As the quaint mountain town of Kotdwar in Uttarakhand was lighting up on Diwali day, Jaimal Singh Negi’s life descended into darkness. That afternoon, he received a call that said his vivacious younger brother, Gabbar Singh Negi, was trapped alongside 40 other men inside an under-construction tunnel in Silkyara. Distraught, the 63-year-old rushed to the …
The workers saw ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ after 17 days. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to workers, who were rescued from the collapsed tunnel after 17 days, over the phone after the operation was declared a success. All the workers were present in a room and spoke to the Prime Minister over …
Uttarakhand: Rescuers will bring out the trapped workers on stretchers New Delhi: The forty-one workers who are trapped under a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand will be pulled out on wheeled stretchers one by one through a big pipe that is still being drilled to reach them, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Director General Atul Karwal …
Rescue operations at the Silkyara tunnel were delayed for hours on November 23 as the drilling machine ran into an iron lattice girder, a structural element of the tunnel which had been buried in the debris and had to be removed manually. The machine only managed to bore through two more metres of debris by …
Uttarakhand Tunnel Rescue News LIVE: Advanced drilling machines were flown in for the rescue op. (File) Dehradun: The 41 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara are expected to be rescued by Thursday morning, a rescue official told reporters. Only 12 metres of rock and debris separate them, officials said earlier on Wednesday. The …
Nitin Gadkari and Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami visited the site of the tunnel collapse Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand): Rescue teams may reach the 41 workers stuck inside an Uttarakhand tunnel for over 170 hours in the next two days if the auger machine drilling into the debris block works properly, Union Minister for Road Transport and …