The expert panel was set up by Union environment ministry to assess the impact of hydroelectric projects during the June 2013 Uttarakhand floods that killed hundreds.
Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat said that govt was not aware of a subsidiary company's project in Tapovan till yesterday & estimated that 35 people are stuck in another tunnel.
Scientists studying satellite imagery from before & after the disaster say a chunk of glacier appears to have crashed down a mountain, triggering a landslide & subsequent floods.
The Tapovan hydroelectric dam, also known as the Rishi Ganga project, was completely washed off in the flash flood, the IAF said in its initial report.
Naval divers on standby. National Crisis Management Committee has said there is no danger of downstream flooding, and no threat to the neighbouring villages.
Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
There was some news last year that the glaciology centre at Mussoorie was shut down and funds were cut by the government. Not much glaciological expertise is left with the government and it’s geological institutions now. It pays to invest in the science of glaciology because Himalayan glaciers and the rivers that originate from it make the single largest impact on our civilization especially states in North India.
Does our country even invest enough funds in glacial and related geological research? The vast population in the Hindi heartland depends on the precious and plentiful rivers that originate from the Himalayan glaciers. Without these glaciers, the entire Indo- Gangetic civilisation is at peril in next 50-100 years. This seems eerily similar possibility like the collapse of the Indus Valley Harappan civilization thousands of years ago which is believed to have happened due to climate change at that time.
Maybe investing enough to have an early warning system with regular visits and monitoring by scientists or researchers to prepare us for the coming water scarcity before it is too late.
There was some news last year that the glaciology centre at Mussoorie was shut down and funds were cut by the government. Not much glaciological expertise is left with the government and it’s geological institutions now. It pays to invest in the science of glaciology because Himalayan glaciers and the rivers that originate from it make the single largest impact on our civilization especially states in North India.
Does our country even invest enough funds in glacial and related geological research? The vast population in the Hindi heartland depends on the precious and plentiful rivers that originate from the Himalayan glaciers. Without these glaciers, the entire Indo- Gangetic civilisation is at peril in next 50-100 years. This seems eerily similar possibility like the collapse of the Indus Valley Harappan civilization thousands of years ago which is believed to have happened due to climate change at that time.
Maybe investing enough to have an early warning system with regular visits and monitoring by scientists or researchers to prepare us for the coming water scarcity before it is too late.