A new American auger drilling machine has started drilling through the debris in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, where 40 workers have been trapped for over 100 hours. The machine has successfully ...

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 ...

An auger boring machine is used to drill earth horizontally. It consists of a cutting head, a flighted drive tube, and the drive mechanism to supply the force to push the auger through the earth. The ...

UTTARKASHI: A 25-tonne platform mounting the auger machine being used to drill through the debris in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand has been repaired, and rescue operations to evacuate 41 workers ...

After a brief glimmer of hope in the rescue of 41 labourers stuck inside the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, the operation witnessed a setback again as the blades of ...

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 ...

Authorities said they were confident an advanced drilling machine flown in from New Delhi will speed up the rescue at the site in the northern state of Uttarakhand. The plan is to drill and create ...

Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) [India], November 25 (ANI): A team from Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) is now on standby mode to initiate vertical drilling from top of the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel to rescue to ...