According to government officials, at least 101 people were still missing after a cloudburst triggered rains causing major flooding in the Teesta river.
Scientists have ample evidence of GLOF events unleashing megafloods. The Sikkim flash flood happened after decades of warnings about exactly such an occurrence.
Army still looking for 22 missing soldiers. Efforts to dig out vehicles submerged under slush continue. Anti-dam activist in Sikkim says 'long predicted this tragedy'.
Likely glacial lake outburst flood at Lhonak Lake in North Sikkim early Wednesday led to widespread flooding. Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority also reported 1 death in West Bengal.
Rescue teams pulled 20 survivors from the snow that engulfed the road to the Nathu La pass before calling off their search as bad weather closed in and darkness fell on Tuesday.
19 others were rescued by Tuesday evening. Search & rescue operations resumed 8am Wednesday after being halted at 6pm the previous evening due to 'inclement weather'.
Pawan Kumar Chamling, founding president of SDF, calls SKM govt 'inefficient & dysfunctional', says he will contest elections next year to bring 'peace and stability' in state.
Despite dropping the 'objectionable' phrase ‘people of foreign origin' for Sikkimese-Nepalese from its judgment on tax exemptions, the poll-bound state is witnessing violent protests.
Even as India, Pakistan have seemed on the edge of war, their intelligence services have often sought to find space to de-escalate tensions and reduce risks for the two countries.
Speaking at 2nd Investor Connect, CM Vishnu Deo Sai says 'we have been able to attract a lot of investors.' The focus of the event was the steel sector.
In largest overhaul of military command in 5 decades, Field Marshal Asim Munir set to assume post of Chief of Defence Forces tomorrow, as Army claims primacy in Pakistan armed forces.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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