Heavy precipitation in the Chamoli region from February 4-6 and an overall rise in temperature in Uttarakhand in last four decades could have led to the rock collapse which triggered the deadly flash floods in the state last month, according to a study by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.
Char Dham Project – The Speed Of Destruction
It was the criminal lack of warning systems on these projects and the deadly impact of climate change that led to the unforgivable agony of our citizens. outlookindia.com 2021-03-04T07:51:42+05:30
The agony of seeing one’s death approach by the second in foaming, roaring wall of dark water while trapped atop the narrow ledge of a dam barrage and then being hurtled down with the deluge while it lashes that last refuge is not easily conceivable.
Neither is the horror of a slow death in a tunnel filled with sludge and debris in a world gone black. The intensity of pain of the father and sister who wait for the bulldozers to excavate the living – or the dead – should shake each of us to the core. The criminal lack of warning systems on these projects, the deadly impact of climate change, the unforgivable agony of our citizens: all these warranted a profound introspection. Yet, while the nation and the world were yet
Indian drug companies are looking to local makers of so-called active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) or trying to make them in-house in a bid to end their reliance on China as ties between the two countries soured after a deadly border clash last June.