The operating ideology that accessibility is unqualified good and that no peak should be beyond reach turns the mountains into something to be consumed rather than reckoned with.
Tourist town of Manali has borne the brunt of the latest spell of rains, with hotels and residential buildings devastated and Chandigarh-Leh Highway severely damaged.
Protima Bedi was a model, Odissi dancer and sanyasin before a landslide claimed her in August 1998. In one of her last letters, she wrote she was ‘finally at peace’.
Following heavy rainfall, landslide hit near Chaten Brigade HQ in North Sikkim on Sunday evening, rescue operations are underway despite difficult weather & terrain.
A decade of landslides have birthed as many as six lakes in Uttarakhand in the last decade. For the first time, a team of scientists from institutes are surveying them.
Such events led to 3,238 deaths, damage to 3.2 million hectares of crops & 2,35,000 houses, & loss of 9,457 livestock. But numbers, particularly for property & crop damage, may be underreported.
After devastating impact on Philippines, Yagi expected to make landfall along China’s coast from Wenchang on island of Hainan, to Leizhou, in Guangdong province from Friday afternoon.
Hundreds sleeping in their homes in Kerala's Wayanad were awakened by a rumble on the night of 30 July. What came next were devastating landslides. From ground zero, ThePrint pieces together events of that night with eyewitness accounts, expert views and data.
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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