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India's Himalayan tragedy is the tip of the iceberg - News


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 ....

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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 13, 2021


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.
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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 ....

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