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"Unilateral Bullying Rampant": What China Told India Amid Trump Tariff War
Five years after their armies fought a pitched battle in Galwan, India and China are working to mend ways as the Donald Trump administration in the US steps up the tariff war against New Delhi
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TBM ‘Shakti’: The Tech Behind India’s Longest Railway Tunnel Between Rishikesh and Karnaprayag
India’s longest railway tunnel is currently being constructed deep in the Himalayan mountains. Dubbed Tunnel No. 8 or T-8, it will be a 14.57km tunnel between Rishikesh and Karnaprayag, and connect Devprayag and Janasu in Uttarakhand. While the length of the tunnel in itself is a major engineering achievement, the technology that went into the ex...
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Telangana: Tunnel Boring Machine Parts Being Cut To Reach Trapped Workers
Rescue teams engaged in extricating the eight trapped workers under a partially collapsed tunnel are cutting down a Tunnel Boring Machine to make way to reach the stranded persons.
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Telangana Tunnel Collapse: 8 Still Trapped, Rescue Ops Enter Day 6
The teams engaged in rescuing eight persons who remain trapped in a partially collapsed SLBC tunnel have began cutting the part of Tunnel Boring Machine and other obstacles.
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The Boring Company To Start Hyperloop Tests This Year
The Elon Musk backed tunneling venture will start full scale hyperloop tests by the end of this year
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Hundreds Homeless After Digging For Kolkata Metro Tunnel Hits Water Body
A section of Kolkata's prestigious East West Metro service - a 16.6-km-long route that includes the country's first underwater train line - met with "unprecedented disaster" after tunnel boring machines hit an aquifer resulting in flooding and cave-ins that forced the evacuation of more than 400 people from the area
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Elon Musk's Tunnel To Solve "Soul-Destroying" Traffic Jam Is Now Open
For Elon Musk's very difficult year, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Specifically, it's a 1.14-mile tunnel the inventor and beleaguered CEO of Tesla Motors says is a first step in solving "soul-destroying" urban traffic. In 2016, Musk - already busy running two high-profile companies - founded a firm called the Boring Company to tackle th...
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Exclusive: How Kolkata Is Building Tunnel Under Water For 60-Second Metro Ride
Two top-order tunnel boring machines, nicknamed Rachna and Prerna, are digging India's first ever under-the-river Metro tunnels in Kolkata at full speed. If all goes through, then one could take a Metro ride under the Hooghly river in December 2019.
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One Of The World's Biggest Tunnels Was Hit By Sinkhole. Now, Progress
Bertha, one of the world's largest tunnel boring machines, emerged north of downtown Seattle on Tuesday shrouded in clouds of dust and chunks of falling concrete, completing the most difficult phase of a plan to build a highway under the heart of the city.
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World Biggest Tunnel In Seattle On Its Surge For Completion
Bertha, one of the world's largest boring machines, will cut through a thick concrete wall at midday on Tuesday if all goes according to plan, completing the most difficult phase of building a highway under the heart of downtown Seattle.
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$18 Billion Metro In A Country Mad About Cars. Will It Work?
Qatar's metro, once completed, will run hundreds of kilometres across ultra-modern Doha, along the coast and into its expanding suburbs.
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Delhi Metro Completes Work on India's First Twin Tunnels Simultaneously
For the first time in the country, the construction work of two parallel tunnels were completed together at Dabri Mor, on the Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden corridor of Phase III, a DMRC spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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Romanian engineer dies at construction site in Kullu
An engineer from Romania, working on state-run NHPC's Parbati hydro power project, died on Tuesday while repairing a tunnel boring machine (TBM) at a construction site in Garsa valley of Kullu district, police said in Shimla.
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"Unilateral Bullying Rampant": What China Told India Amid Trump Tariff War
Five years after their armies fought a pitched battle in Galwan, India and China are working to mend ways as the Donald Trump administration in the US steps up the tariff war against New Delhi
-
TBM ‘Shakti’: The Tech Behind India’s Longest Railway Tunnel Between Rishikesh and Karnaprayag
India’s longest railway tunnel is currently being constructed deep in the Himalayan mountains. Dubbed Tunnel No. 8 or T-8, it will be a 14.57km tunnel between Rishikesh and Karnaprayag, and connect Devprayag and Janasu in Uttarakhand. While the length of the tunnel in itself is a major engineering achievement, the technology that went into the ex...
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Telangana: Tunnel Boring Machine Parts Being Cut To Reach Trapped Workers
Rescue teams engaged in extricating the eight trapped workers under a partially collapsed tunnel are cutting down a Tunnel Boring Machine to make way to reach the stranded persons.
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Telangana Tunnel Collapse: 8 Still Trapped, Rescue Ops Enter Day 6
The teams engaged in rescuing eight persons who remain trapped in a partially collapsed SLBC tunnel have began cutting the part of Tunnel Boring Machine and other obstacles.
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The Boring Company To Start Hyperloop Tests This Year
The Elon Musk backed tunneling venture will start full scale hyperloop tests by the end of this year
-
Hundreds Homeless After Digging For Kolkata Metro Tunnel Hits Water Body
A section of Kolkata's prestigious East West Metro service - a 16.6-km-long route that includes the country's first underwater train line - met with "unprecedented disaster" after tunnel boring machines hit an aquifer resulting in flooding and cave-ins that forced the evacuation of more than 400 people from the area
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Elon Musk's Tunnel To Solve "Soul-Destroying" Traffic Jam Is Now Open
For Elon Musk's very difficult year, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Specifically, it's a 1.14-mile tunnel the inventor and beleaguered CEO of Tesla Motors says is a first step in solving "soul-destroying" urban traffic. In 2016, Musk - already busy running two high-profile companies - founded a firm called the Boring Company to tackle th...
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Exclusive: How Kolkata Is Building Tunnel Under Water For 60-Second Metro Ride
Two top-order tunnel boring machines, nicknamed Rachna and Prerna, are digging India's first ever under-the-river Metro tunnels in Kolkata at full speed. If all goes through, then one could take a Metro ride under the Hooghly river in December 2019.
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One Of The World's Biggest Tunnels Was Hit By Sinkhole. Now, Progress
Bertha, one of the world's largest tunnel boring machines, emerged north of downtown Seattle on Tuesday shrouded in clouds of dust and chunks of falling concrete, completing the most difficult phase of a plan to build a highway under the heart of the city.
-
World Biggest Tunnel In Seattle On Its Surge For Completion
Bertha, one of the world's largest boring machines, will cut through a thick concrete wall at midday on Tuesday if all goes according to plan, completing the most difficult phase of building a highway under the heart of downtown Seattle.
-
$18 Billion Metro In A Country Mad About Cars. Will It Work?
Qatar's metro, once completed, will run hundreds of kilometres across ultra-modern Doha, along the coast and into its expanding suburbs.
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Delhi Metro Completes Work on India's First Twin Tunnels Simultaneously
For the first time in the country, the construction work of two parallel tunnels were completed together at Dabri Mor, on the Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden corridor of Phase III, a DMRC spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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Romanian engineer dies at construction site in Kullu
An engineer from Romania, working on state-run NHPC's Parbati hydro power project, died on Tuesday while repairing a tunnel boring machine (TBM) at a construction site in Garsa valley of Kullu district, police said in Shimla.
