Landslides

The state government on Saturday gave two days’ time to the Public Works Department to clear all roads for smooth transportation of apple produce. Public Works Minister Gulab Singh Thakur, who reviewed the situation with top officials here this morning, was informed about an estimated loss of Rs 332 crore due to extensive road damage due to incessant rains and landslides.

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A 2007 file picture shows traffic stalled on National Highway 39 because of landslides. Three years later, hardly anything has changed Kohima, Aug.

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Dehradun: A day after 18 students died as their school building caved in following landslides, the state government on Friday decided to relocate 101 villages situated in extremely dangerous and seismologically sensitive places across Garhwal and Kumaon regions. Chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said in Bageshwar that the government had identified the villages on the basis of a survey

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At least 18 children, all below the age of 10, died this morning after a landslide triggered by a cloudburst struck a primary school building in the hills of Bageshwar in Uttarakhand. Thirty students and two teachers were in the school at the time of the incident. Eight injured children have been pulled out of the debris but the teachers are still missing.

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Heavy rains lashed a remote section of northwestern China as the toll from weekend flooding that triggered massive landslides jumped to 1,117, although the fading hopes of rescuers got a boost late on Wednesday when a survivor was found in the debris.

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BEN BLANCHARD and ROYSTON CHAN
ZHOUQU, CHINA

Engineers battled on Tuesday to drain an unstable lake created by China’s deadliest landslide in decades, fearing it could burst and swamp devastated areas where people are still hunting for survivors.

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Zhouqu: The death toll from mudslides in northwest China surged to 337 on Monday, as rescuers used diggers and their bare hands in a desperate search for more than 1,000 others still missing.

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Reuters

Mudslides engulfed a town in northwest China on Sunday, killing at least 127 people and leaving nearly 2,000 residents missing as rescue teams dug out crushed homes and sought to blast away debris clogging a river.

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 GUWAHATI, Aug 8 – The unbridled pace of urbanization in Guwahati has taken its toll on the hills, disturbing their fragile eco-system and compounding the city’s civic woes.

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