Moviemakers say there’s still scope to capture scenic shots after a few months Devastating floods and landslides flattened houses and left hundreds dead in Uttarakhand a month ago, but for ...

relatives of the Uttarakhand disaster victims have finally decided to cremate the lost members of their family b... 'Gigantic' Mi-26 helicopter lifts bulldozers for road construction in ...

Stephan Harrison, professor of climate and environmental change at the University of Exeter, says: “The recent tragic disaster in Uttarakhand has been reported as being triggered by a glacier ...

Dams? Roads? Greed? Gods? The jury is out on what caused the latest Himalayan disaster, when a part of Nandadevi glacier broke off in the Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on February 7 morning ...

Even after two weeks of rescue operations uncertainty prevails over the number of casualties and people still stuck in what is described as the worst natural disaster that has ever struck the ...

Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], April 22 (ANI): A tabletop exercise (TTEX) was conducted on Tuesday at the Disaster Operations Centre of Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority ...

The report, ‘Assessment of Environmental Degradation and Impact of Hydroelectric Projects During the June 2013 Disaster in Uttarakhand’, was submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Forests on ...

Despite the horrendous scale of human suffering, the Uttarakhand tragedy is inevitably ... the necessary resolve to prevent another similar disaster. This has been a National Calamity and we ...

Mountainous regions such as Uttarakhand are prone to natural disasters and environmental degradation, primarily because of their fragility. Floods, landslides and earthquakes cause significant ...

DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand government has issued a compensation policy for buildings damaged in the cland submergence disaster. After the approval of the Governor, Secretary Disaster Management ...

The Uttarakhand government has begun the process to declare the 136 people missing since the glacier disaster in Chamoli on February 7 as “presumed dead”, The Times of India reported on Tuesday.