Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Sing NEW DELHI: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday attended the breakthrough ceremony of the Silkyara Tunnel, marking a key milestone in the Char Dham Yatra infrastructure project. The tunnel, spanning 4.531 km and built at a cost of Rs 853 crore, is expected to shorten the distance between Gangotri…
NEW DELHI: Finally a breakthrough will be achieved officially at Silkyara in Uttarakhand on Wednesday when the two ends of the tunnel excavated from opposite directions meet. The project was stuck for months after a section of the Silkyara Bend–Barkot tunnel collapsed while under construction in November 2023.With this breakthrough the excavation work will be…
DEHRADUN: The tunnel has collapsed. Water and silt flood the narrow passage. Deep underground, there are eight men – trapped, unheard, unseen. At the mouth of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) in Telangana, hundreds of rescuers battle against time, fighting to bring them back. Among them are three men who have been there before…
Telangana tunnel collapse (Pic credit: ANI) HYDERABAD: Six members of the team behind the heroic Nov 2023 Silkyara tunnel rescue operation in Uttarakhand joined the Army, NDRF, SDRF and local agencies on Sunday in accelerated efforts to save the eight workers – two of them engineers – trapped inside a collapsed portion of Srisailam Left…