Monsoon rains misery: Casualty toll rises to 21
At least 21 people were killed in rain-related incidents in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh (UP), Rajasthan and Assam, with monsoon gaining momentum in several parts of north and northeast India. At least
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Ukhd govt to give Rs 5 lakh compensation to cloudburst victims
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat today said the government will pay a compensation of Rs five lakh to the next of kin of those killed in this year's cloudburst and decided to bring the commercial
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Floods have shifted focus on us for now, say Tehri villagers
Residents of Charu Khet say they would have been languishing in apathy if not for the deluge It is a small hamlet of about a dozen households just off the national highway near the Narendra Nagar bypass in Tehri district. And Charu Khet is noticeable only because of a huge mass of stone and concrete that has spilled all over the only road that connects the hamlet to the rest of the district.
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on loss due to floods and thunder storms, 03/03/2020
<p>Question raised in Lok Sabha on loss due to floods and thunder storms, 03/03/2020. Several States in the country have been affected by natural calamities including thunder storms and floods during 2019-20.</p><a
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of waste on the banks of river Baigul, Rudrapur,
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rambabu Vs Nagar Nigam Rudrapur & Others dated 06/07/2023.</p> <p>Grievance in the application is against dumping of waste on the bank of Baigul
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of muck or debris in the river Alaknanda by Jaypee Associates, 05/12/2014
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Vimal Bhai Vs. Japee Associates & Ors. dated 05/12/2014 regarding dumping of muck or debris in the river Alaknanda
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Heavy rains and cloudburst kill 8 in Uttarakhand, Almora SDM goes missing
Four members of a family were killed, while five others, including SDM of Almora district, were feared dead in rain-related incidents as heavy showers lashed Uttarakhand on Wednesday, causing fresh landslips,
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India's deadly floods raise risk of women, children being sold into slavery
Women and children in India’s flood-hit eastern region are at risk of being preyed upon by human traffickers and sold into slavery in middle class homes, restaurants and shops, and even brothels, aid workers
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Global warming could do worse damage to J&K than in Uttarakhand, say experts
By 2030, average temperatures could rise by one to 4.5 degrees Celsius in the Himalayan region Global warming, coupled by unplanned construction boom and industrial layout, could spell doom “worse than
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal construction in the flood plain of river Ganga, Village Taliyal, District Pauri, Uttarakhand, 08/03/2019
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Kunal Raheja Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 08/03/2019. Allegation in this application is that illegal construction is taking place
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Uttarakhand’s killer monsoon takes 43 lives in just 48 days
DEHRADUN: Early and gushing monsoon has wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand, killing 43 people and injuring 23 others since the beginning of June. According to official figures, 62 people in the state have
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Many UP districts inundated
LUCKNOW: The flood situation remained grim in the state on Sunday though rainfall remained subdued. The release of large quantity of water from dams in Uttarakhand and Nepal further increased the water
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Mining with Impunity
While Uttarakhand counts the cost of the floods and landslides caused by rains, scientists claim that it was a man-made catastrophe caused by mining and encroachments in the flood zone of the rivers. The
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Of Chorgalia and a river abused
Chorgalia is a small village at the foot of the rather less prominent Shivaliks in the Kumaon Himalayas, close to the city of Haldwani.
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33 feared killed in Uttarakhand flash floods
Thirty-three people are feared killed and at least 40 feared buried under debris and mud as flash floods and landslips hit villages at Ukhimath and Kapkot in Rudraprayag and Bageshwar districts respectively of Uttarakhand on Friday. Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna released Rs. 10 crore for Ukhimath and Rs. 1 crore for Bageshwar relief work. Governor Aziz Quereshi, while expressing anguish, appealed to the rescue teams, Red Cross members and the public to make all efforts to help those in despair.
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Companies draw flak for violating environment norms
Alleging blatant violation of environmental norms, locals and activists have demanded cancellation of Environment Clearance (EC) of the 520 MW Tapovan-Vishnugad and 444 MW Vishnugad-Pipalkoti hydro electricity
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Green signal for 11 hydro projects in Uttarakhand since 2006
Eleven hydropower projects in the downstream of Gaumukh in Uttarakhand have got clearance from the Environment Ministry since 2006, Lok Sabha was informed today. Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan
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U’khand: 23 hydel project workers among 34 dead
The death toll in the landslides, cloudburst and flash floods that followed incessant rain in Uttarakhand reached 34 as ITBP and police personnel on Sunday searched the debris of flattened homes in the
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Flood fury 2015
Flash flooding triggered by torrential rains has killed 71 people in Gujarat, as annual monsoon season hits the country. Track the latest updates as floods threaten and disrupt normal life in - Jammu and
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Fresh cloudbursts kill 8 more in Uttarakhand villages
Eight more persons, among them a sant, were killed and a sadhvi went missing after another bout of cloudbursts in three remote villages of Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand on Sunday. This took the number of those killed over the past few days in flash floods and landslips to 46. About 25 more people are still feared buried under debris. Five persons, including three women, were killed as a flash flood and hillside debris hit village Kiroda around 2.30 am, as one house was completely devastated and agricultural fields destroyed.