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Meet Hang Son Doong: The World’s Largest Cave with Jungles, Stalagmites, and a Hidden River
Hang Son Doong, located in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam, is the world’s largest cave with a vast network of underground passages, towering stalagmites, and two jungles. Discovered in 1990 by local Ho Khanh and later fully explored in 2009, it has since captivated researchers and visitors alike. Its unique geological features and recen...
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PM To Inaugurate India's First Underwater Metro Service In Kolkata Today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate India's first under-river metro tunnel built in Kolkata on Wednesday.
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PM Modi To Inaugurate India's 1st Underwater Metro In Kolkata Tomorrow
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate India's first under-river metro tunnel built in Kolkata tomorrow.
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Watch: Kolkata Metro Runs Under River, First In India
Kolkata Metro created history on Wednesday when its rake ran through a tunnel under a river for the first time in the country, a senior official said here.
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Kolkata Metro's Underwater Tunnel To Be 45-Second Experience For Commuters
India's first underwater tunnel, being built under the Hooghly River as part of the East West Metro Corridor, will be a blink-and-you-miss-it experience for passengers as trains will cross the 520-metre stretch in just 45 seconds.
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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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China To Build Underwater Bullet Train Route
The proposed underwater tunnel will be a part of the 77-km Yong-Zhou Railway plan to boost tourism and create a two-hour-commute zone within Zhejiang province.
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World's Longest Sea Bridge In China Has Steel To Build 60 Eiffel Towers
Touted as an engineering wonder, the world's longest sea bridge, which connects Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, includes a snaking road crossing and an underwater tunnel and reportedly uses enough steel to build 60 Eiffel Towers
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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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The First Underwater Tunnel To Run Beneath The Ganga, 1.7 Kms Long
The Kolkata Metro will be the first project in India to have an underwater tunnel. The construction of the tunnel, which will run under the river Ganga, has already started. It is part of the Kolkata Metro's east-west corridor. Visiting the site, Union Minister Babul Supriyo said, "this is the first such project in the country. Building a tunnel un...
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Ganga Tunnel Of East West Metro To Be The Country's First
The underwater tunnel of East-West Metro Corridor Project here, built below the Ganga river bed, is the first of its kind in the country, said Union Minister Babul Supriyo today after going into the tunnel.
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China plans to build world's longest underwater tunnel
China plans to build the world's longest underwater tunnel, an expert involved in the project told AFP on Friday, a $36 billion shortcut between two northern port cities in an earthquake-prone region.
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Istanbul's new rail tunnel links Europe and Asia
Turkey has opened an underwater railway tunnel linking Europe and Asia, and the two sides of Istanbul, realizing a plan initially proposed by an Ottoman sultan about 150 years ago.
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Turkey realises Ottoman dream with rail tunnel linking Europe to Asia
Turkey opened the world's first underwater rail link between two continents on Tuesday, connecting Asia and Europe and allowing Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to realise a project dreamt up by Ottoman sultans more than a century ago.
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Meet Hang Son Doong: The World’s Largest Cave with Jungles, Stalagmites, and a Hidden River
Hang Son Doong, located in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam, is the world’s largest cave with a vast network of underground passages, towering stalagmites, and two jungles. Discovered in 1990 by local Ho Khanh and later fully explored in 2009, it has since captivated researchers and visitors alike. Its unique geological features and recen...
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PM To Inaugurate India's First Underwater Metro Service In Kolkata Today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate India's first under-river metro tunnel built in Kolkata on Wednesday.
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PM Modi To Inaugurate India's 1st Underwater Metro In Kolkata Tomorrow
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate India's first under-river metro tunnel built in Kolkata tomorrow.
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Watch: Kolkata Metro Runs Under River, First In India
Kolkata Metro created history on Wednesday when its rake ran through a tunnel under a river for the first time in the country, a senior official said here.
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Kolkata Metro's Underwater Tunnel To Be 45-Second Experience For Commuters
India's first underwater tunnel, being built under the Hooghly River as part of the East West Metro Corridor, will be a blink-and-you-miss-it experience for passengers as trains will cross the 520-metre stretch in just 45 seconds.
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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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China To Build Underwater Bullet Train Route
The proposed underwater tunnel will be a part of the 77-km Yong-Zhou Railway plan to boost tourism and create a two-hour-commute zone within Zhejiang province.
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World's Longest Sea Bridge In China Has Steel To Build 60 Eiffel Towers
Touted as an engineering wonder, the world's longest sea bridge, which connects Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, includes a snaking road crossing and an underwater tunnel and reportedly uses enough steel to build 60 Eiffel Towers
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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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The First Underwater Tunnel To Run Beneath The Ganga, 1.7 Kms Long
The Kolkata Metro will be the first project in India to have an underwater tunnel. The construction of the tunnel, which will run under the river Ganga, has already started. It is part of the Kolkata Metro's east-west corridor. Visiting the site, Union Minister Babul Supriyo said, "this is the first such project in the country. Building a tunnel un...
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Ganga Tunnel Of East West Metro To Be The Country's First
The underwater tunnel of East-West Metro Corridor Project here, built below the Ganga river bed, is the first of its kind in the country, said Union Minister Babul Supriyo today after going into the tunnel.
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China plans to build world's longest underwater tunnel
China plans to build the world's longest underwater tunnel, an expert involved in the project told AFP on Friday, a $36 billion shortcut between two northern port cities in an earthquake-prone region.
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Istanbul's new rail tunnel links Europe and Asia
Turkey has opened an underwater railway tunnel linking Europe and Asia, and the two sides of Istanbul, realizing a plan initially proposed by an Ottoman sultan about 150 years ago.
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Turkey realises Ottoman dream with rail tunnel linking Europe to Asia
Turkey opened the world's first underwater rail link between two continents on Tuesday, connecting Asia and Europe and allowing Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to realise a project dreamt up by Ottoman sultans more than a century ago.
