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The water level in the temporary lake formed in Harsil, Uttarkashi district, has come down after teams from National Disaster Response Force and other agencies successfully punctured it, an official s ...
Flash floods are no longer just a threat to India’s known flood-prone areas. A new study by researchers from IIT Gandhinagar ...
Opinion

Warnings Ignored

Almost identical statements, a decade apart, by Chief Ministers of two different political parties, reveal the crux of the problem – a flawed development model, imagined and implemented for ...
Every monsoon, hundreds of people from Karnali, Nepal's largest and remotest province, risk their lives in India's flood- and landslide-prone areas for seasonal work. Many never return.
Dehradun: The Aug 5 flash flood in Uttarkashi's Dharali was likely triggered by a \"cloudburst-induced moraine debris flow ...
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami held a meeting with the officials at the disaster control room of Uttarkashi ...
Kameshwari Devi was on her way back from a temple near her village in the Indian Himalayas when a wall of water, rocks and mud tore down the mountain, destroyed her home and killed her son.
A catastrophic mudslide swept away an entire village in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on Tuesday, triggered by a ...
At least four people are dead and more than 50 people are trapped and feared dead after a massive flooding in India. The ...
Thirteen Nepalese nationals from Jajarkot district's Kushe Rural Municipality are missing following flash floods in ...
Rescuers were scouring a devastated Himalayan village in northern India to find dozens of missing people, a day after flash ...
Roads crumpled or blocked by boulders kept rescue teams from reaching the village of Dharali in the state's district of Uttarkashi, a tourist spot, after a wall of water hit the area, submerging homes ...