Vertical drilling in Silkyara tunnel likely to be completed by Nov 30: NHIDCL

National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited managing director Mahmood Ahmad on Monday informed that the work of the vertical drilling at Uttarkashi tunnel where 41 workers......

Breakthrough achieved, 41 workers to come out of tunnel after 16 days

Rescue workers on Tuesday drilled through the 60-metre stretch of rubble of the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in which 41 workers are trapped for the last 16 days, officials said. IMAGE: Several......

Snag set right, tunnel rescue may finish by...: Top official

Drilling through the rubble to prepare an escape route for the 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel was set to resume on Friday morning, a day after another snag hit the rescue efforts, an......

Rescue workers close but 'not quite there', says NDMA

Rescue workers on Tuesday were close to breaking through the 60-metre stretch of rubble of the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand in which 41 workers are trapped for the last 16 days,......

Gadkari plans to meet infra target despite lockdown

'Despite the pandemic, we aspire to maintain the momentum of last year.' Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters "Innovative methods -- accelerated construction techniques, faster decision-making, putting......

Time frame of 300 highway projects cut by 3 months: Gadkari

Of these, about 100 projects are likely to be completed by December 2018. The government has decided to reduce time frame by three months of 300 projects scheduled for completion in June 2019, and......

Four in race for Rs 10,000-cr tunnel in Kashmir

The tunnel would provide all-weather connectivity between Srinagar and Leh-Ladakh Reliance Infrastructure in partnership with Dogus Construction of Turkey, Larsen and Toubro (L&T), IL&FS......

Government to build 13 new expressways

‘Our target is to award Rs 25 lakh crore worth of projects that would result in creating 25 million jobs’ Nitin Gadkari, the Union minister of road transport and highways, and......