In January 2023, hundreds of houses in the pilgrimage town of Joshimath developed fissures due to sinking of the land.…
In the early morning of 12 November 2023, a 57 metre wide section of an under-construction road tunnel in Uttarakhand…
The Himalayan region has seen several extreme weather events and disasters this year. Experts have repeatedly raised concern about the…
As soon as reports of cracks developing in houses started pouring in from Uttarakhand’s Joshimath town, in early January, the…
After the natural disaster in Joshimath, Uttarakhand, geologists and activists working on environmental protection in Sikkim are a worried lot. Like…
“We had to come to our homes many times in a day from the relief camp we were staying at…
Nearly four months since Joshimath made headlines as the "sinking town", the gateway to Himalayan pilgrimage sites is yet to…
Source: PTI Residents of 14 villages of Darma valley in Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh have risen in protest against a proposed 165…
Within weeks of the partial evacuation of Joshimath, an ancient pilgrim town in Uttarakhand, northern India, land started to sink…
(Source: PTI) The hotel owner, the shopkeeper, the laundry owner, the roadside vendor... Hundreds of people watch in dismay as…
(Source: PTI) Joshimath is a town on the edge. It’s the very precipice for thousands of people, despairing as the…
(Source: PTI) The PSInSAR satellite technique used to observe the gradual sinking of Uttarakhand's Joshimath town is a powerful remote…
Concerns over land subsidence in Joshimath mounted on Friday as satellite images released by ISRO showed the Himalayan town sank…
(Source: PTI) A team of experts from CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) will be leaving for Joshimath in Uttarakhand, which…
The Himalayan town of Joshimath is sinking. Its houses have been declared dangerous to live in and hitherto, 600 families…
Residents of the ancient pilgrim town of Joshimath were forced to flee their homes in the freezing weather of January…
(Source: PTI) The Congress on Monday demanded that the land subsidence situation in Uttarakhand's Joshimath should be declared a national…
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