Global warming has intensified the risk of GLOFs as glaciers are melting faster, increasing the size of these lakes and the ...

A flood occurred in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district after ... The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and other agencies are carrying out rescue operations ...

In Uttarakhand, landslides, floods, and cloudbursts during the monsoon ... while 12 were attributed to natural disasters.” ...

The June 2013 disaster in Uttarakhand is unforgettable for the ... resulting in the region’s worst-ever flooding in five decades. Government officials committed many errors that had a direct ...

The Central Government has sanctioned the National Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Risk Mitigation Project across vulnerable ...

The Climate Risk Index of India, however, has improved with the country being placed at 49th globally (2022), as against ...

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has given the green light for the installation of 500 solar streets in disaster-prone and rural areas, including Khair Mansingh, Dron Dwara ...

The report is part of an extensive study focused on National and Sub-national Disaster Risk and Resilience Assessment for the ...

An international study has investigated the causes and impacts of the devastating flood disaster in the Himalayas in October 2023, which destroyed large areas along and surrounding the Teesta River in ...

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Wednesday launched a new report on the Disaster Risk and Resilience Assessment ...