If extremely heavy rainfall can cause such damage without a rare event like a cloudburst, it should leave the system working toward India’s disaster preparedness thinking.
Ex-water resources & river development minister says it’s ‘imperative’ to ‘immediately pause’ & maintain balance between nature, environment, tourism & faith in Himalayan states.
Report by central committee blames glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) for the incident. Sikkim govt cites a cloudburst. Insiders say destroyed Chungthang dam's insurance at root of debate.
100-year-old Shiv Mandir was washed away in cloudburst that struck Monday. It had an estimated 30 devotees inside at the time. Fourteen bodies have been recovered so far.
Cloudburst & landslides have led to the death of at least 50 people in separate incidents in Himachal Pradesh. Ratiram & Jamuna Devi lost half their family, their mud house & gaushala.
The Telanagana CM announces Rs 1,000 crore package for a slew of relief works, allots Rs 10,000 in financial assistance and 20 kg rice for each of the flood-hit families
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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