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In 2003, archaeologists investigating storm damage near a Mexican pyramid found a hidden tunnel that reframed Teotihuacan’s sacred worldHeavy rains in 2003 unexpectedly revealed a hidden tunnel at Teotihuacan. This ancient site near Mexico City yielded thousands of ritual ar...
Voles V/S moles: The lawn damage clue most homeowners get wrongHomeowners often confuse mole and vole lawn damage. Moles tunnel underground, creating mounds. Voles create surface runways and gnaw on pla...
Construction workers uncovered six centuries old shipwrecks buried beneath the same siteAn ordinary infrastructure project in Sweden has unearthed an extraordinary past. Six shipwrecks, dating from the Middle Ages to the 17th c...
Scientists Just Used Space Particles to See Beneath Ancient Jerusalem, and What They Found Is Raising QuestionsArchaeologists are now using cosmic ray muon imaging to see underground without digging. This new technique has successfully identified hid...
DMRC constructs tunnel beneath Red Line at Pulbangash without disrupting train servicesDelhi Metro has successfully completed a complex tunnelling project beneath the operational Red Line at Pulbangash for its Phase IV expansi...
How India is building its first undersea tunnel for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet trainIndia's inaugural bullet train project between Ahmedabad and Mumbai involved the construction of a 7-kilometer undersea tunnel beneath Than...
Uttarkashi Tunnel: How Jhansi rat miners rescued workers after high-tech American machine failedA group of skilled miners from Uttar Pradesh joined the rescue operation to save 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkash...
Silkyara tunnel collapse: After modern machinery fails, controversial rat-hole mining comes to the rescueRescuers in Uttarakhand are employing the controversial rat-hole mining technique to extract 41 trapped labourers after modern machinery fa...
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: Robots to check on mental well-being of trapped workers"I am here for the mental well-being of the 41 workers stuck in the Silkyara tunnel. This is a homegrown indigenous technology. Now the rob...
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: Rescuers within five metres of reaching 41 trapped workersRescuers have also started to create a vertical channel with a newly replaced drilling machine, officials said. They drilled horizontally f...
Not involved in construction of Uttrakhand tunnel, says Adani groupGautam Adani's Adani Group through a statement on Monday denied any involvement in the construction of the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand, ...
No more GPR survey at Uttarakhand rescue site, team sent back to DelhiThe Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey team was sent back to Delhi after manual drilling began in Uttarkashi. The team found no heavy ob...
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: Former Army Engineer-in-Chief vouches for manual method to reach trapped labourers"There is no other way left except the manual method and this is also the safe one through which we can reach the labourers. In the current...
Uttarkashi tunnel rescue: BRO personnel to quickly transport machines for vertical drilling to hill topOfficials are exploring the option of vertical drilling too as the heavy-duty auger machine that was used in the horizontal drilling throug...
Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train: Technical bids for 21-km tunnel, including undersea stretch, openedTwo bids have been received from Afcons Infrastructure Limited and Larsen & Toubro Limited for the C-2 package between Bandra-Kurla Complex...
China planning 1,000 km tunnel to divert Brahmaputra watersIndia already feels threatened by China's projects in the Tibetan plateau. Diversion of the Brahmaputra is an idea China does not discuss i...
- Work on India's longest road tunnel starts in Udhampur
Australian company Leighton Welston, renowned for tunnelling technology, began the project by triggering the blast this afternoon.