Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Union Minister of Steel Virbhadra Singh today opined that there was a need to ban export of iron ore. Rather export of value added products should be encouraged. He was addressing a gathering at the CII Steel Mart 2010 at CII, Sector 31 today. The minister said that against the …
Srinagar: The Punjab government on Thursday announced a relief of Rs 1 crore for the rehabilitation of cloudburst and flash flood victims of Leh district in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.
SRINAGAR, Sept 1: Due to flash floods and cloudburst in Leh last month, 28 thousand quintals of food grains of different standing crops spread over 1400 hector of agriculture land have been damaged. This was revealed from the survey of SKUAST(K) conducted about the damage caused to the Agriculture crop …
Cloudbursts are usually triggered by mountain formations that lead to lifting of moisture-laden winds and forming of a convective cloud. Cloudbursts are common in the western Himalaya. Western disturbances over the Leh region on August 5 might have also triggered the cloudburst, said M Rajeevan, of National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday announced a Rs 125 crores relief package for the victims of the flash floods here after the devastating cloudburst and said the focus will be to build houses before the onset of harsh winter. The Prime Minister, who visited some of the flood ravaged …
M. Rajeev Leh cloudburst shows impact of climate change on India HYDERABAD: As the official machinery grapples to ascertain the extent of damage caused by the recent cloudburst and flash floods in Leh district that claimed close to 200 lives, experts are stressing the need for modelling the impact of …
SHILLONG: The recent cloudburst in Leh, Jammu & Kashmir where many have been affected including tourists is a matter of concern irrespective of geographical locations, if the Regional Metrological Centre (RMC), Guwahati is to be believed."Such bursts happens irrespective of hilly or plain area," Dr HG Pathak, Director, RMC said, …
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has stationed a high-level team in Leh which is working on ground for giving relief to those affected and drawing up a rehabilitation plan.
The Leh cloudburst has again brought out the glaring lack of adequate documentation on such sporadic weather events. J Srinivasan, chairman of Divecha Centre for Climate Change and head of Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, tells TOI
Manu Pubby While the people of Ladakh will take months to recover from the flash floods that have damaged thousands of homes, there is more bad news as the model hydroelectric project that would have been the first regular source of power in the region is expected to get delayed …
Pune Leh cloudburst was an impact of global warming, feel scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. They said extreme events have been increasing in monsoon season due to warming.
Biogas, which is generated from organic digestion under anaerobic conditions by mixed population of microorganisms, is an alternative energy source, that is now being utilized both in rural and industrial areas. Biogas technology offers an attractive route to utilize certain categories of biomass for meeting partial energy needs. (Correspondence)
Mandi, August 8Scientists and meteorologists attribute the catastrophic flash floods and cloudbursts to climatic shift, but they still grope in the dark to predict these
Shujaat Bukhari: For the third consecutive day, rescue operations were on in full swing on Sunday to search for the missing and dead even as the death toll in the flash floods that hit this mountain town in the small hours of Friday rose to 150. A few hundred people …
Amit Bhattacharya | TNNNew Delhi: The two cloudbursts that lashed the Leh area of Ladakh with unprecedented fury on Thursday and Friday, could be another sign that rising temperatures in the cold desert were leading to climate change, experts said. The western Himalayan region is warming faster than the rest …
Shujaat BukhariSRINAGAR: At least 115 people were killed and over 370 injured, and many more are missing as flash floods caused by torrential rain hit Leh town and adjoining villages in the small hours of Friday. Several buildings were washed away.The BSNL exchange in Leh has been damaged; the Srinagar-Leh …
