Tag: #uttarakhand
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New Delhi, November 21 The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday issued an advisory to television channels asking them to refrain from sensationalising the ongoing rescue operation under way at Silkyara, Uttarakhand, and undertaking any live posts and videos from close proximity of the tunnel site where the rescue operations are under way. The…
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Dehradun, November 20 The Uttarakhand government will bear the travel, food and lodging expenses of relatives of the 41 workers trapped at the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi district for over a week. Assuring the families of the trapped workers that they will be rescued soon, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday said officials have…
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New Delhi, November 17 On the sixth day of the rescue operation on Friday, efforts to extricate 40 trapped labourers from the collapsed Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in Uttarakhand gained momentum. The latest drilling machine, having successfully penetrated 24 metre, managed to insert four pipes by Friday afternoon. However, the drilling process temporarily halted when the auger…