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Himalayan crisis looms large in Lahaul valley tribuneindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tribuneindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Roads narrowed in the mountains, debris spreading like ammo in the valleys of Uttrakhand | उत्तराखंड में घाटियों-नदियों में डंप किया जा रहा मलबा, कम हो रही नदियों की चौड़ाई bhaskar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bhaskar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
India’s Himalayan tragedy is the tip of the iceberg Tirtho Banerjee Filed on February 17, 2021 This avalanche led to the torrent of river waters which swept away scores of villages and everything that came in its path. Nature has a way to jolt us whenever we go overboard. The catastrophe in Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand on February 7 is a stern warning not only for India, but for the entire world which, if unheeded, would unleash more havoc of greater magnitude. Theories continue to abound about why the Chamoli disaster in which Rishi Ganga and Dhauliganga rivers went into a spate, killing over 60 people and leaving 170 others missing wreaked massive destruction. Some scientists say that it was caused after a slice of a hanging glacier in Nanda Devi mountain broke off and resulted in ice and rock rolling down. This avalanche led to the torrent of river waters which swept away scores of villages and everything that came in ....
Mainstream Mainstream, VOL LIX No 9, New Delhi, February 13, 2021 Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 13, 2021 Friday 12 February 2021 The big news on the China India Ladakh Border is of possible military disengagement by the two armies after months of a heavy standoff with the deployment of tens of thousands of troops and heavy armour. News is still trickling in and any sober assessment of the causes, the backstory and the implications will take time. o o Another man-made disaster struck the Chamoli district in Uttarakhand Hills on February 7, 2021, this time wiping out the trace of two hydroelectric dams being built on the Alaknanda river basin, leaving some 37 people dead and sweeping away 200 people. It brought back memories of the 2013 Kedarnath deluge that had killed hundreds. The latest disaster has certainly been caused by repeated blasting for building the hydropower projects and the Char-Dham all-weather highways (the widening of some 900 km ....
A resilient future for Uttarakhand Updated: Updated: February 12, 2021 01:24 IST The need of the hour is to invest in long-term crisis response mechanisms and resilience solutions Share Article AAA A vehicle stuck in the swamp at the site of the Tapovan hydel project as rescue work is under way. | Photo Credit: PTI The need of the hour is to invest in long-term crisis response mechanisms and resilience solutions Days after a glacier burst in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand caused flash floods, the scientific community is still struggling to understand what triggered the disaster. At the time of writing this article, the death toll was 34 with more than 170 people missing. The floods have also caused heavy damage to public and private infrastructure, including the NTPC’s Tapovan-Vishnugad hydropower project and the Rishiganga mini hydro project. The incident was reminiscent of the 2013 disaster in Uttarakhand which killed thousa ....