The latest casualty in Uttarakhand's Joshimath town, which is witnessing extreme land subsidence, is a temple in the prestigious Shankaracharya Math, established by Adi Jagatguru Shankaracharya, which has developed cracks and has sunk down .
The Uttarakhand government on Sunday declared some areas of Joshimath as a disaster-affected area, based on the recommendations of the experts who had been surveying the houses in the holy city to identify the causes of the landslides.The .