The Department of Telecommunications, in cooperation with various agencies, rapidly restored telecom connectivity in ...

Residents, migrant workers, and tourists were among those swept away. Rescue efforts by the Army, NDRF, and SDRF have faced ...

Uttarkashi, Nine days after the devasting flash flood devoured almost half of Dharali village in Uttarkashi district, demolishing buildings in its bustling market area and sweeping away people, ...

Scientists point out that a cloudburst is natural event that occurs under a specific set of meteorological conditions, when ...

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The cloudburst has also caused widespread devastation. Rescue teams fear the toll could rise as several people remain missing.

The Indian Army is also using sniffer dogs and thermal scanners to look for nine jawans who went missing after the cloudburst and are believed to be trapped in the mud at the Harshil Army Camp.

The biggest challenge for rescuers is to locate those possibly trapped under debris, some buried 40–50 feet above what was once Dharali village and its bustling market. With route connectivity broken, ...

Chashoti: A massive cloudburst struck the Chashoti area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Thursday, leaving at ...

Dharali village in Uttarakhand was devastated by six consecutive flash floods that destroyed infrastructure, cut off ...

DEHRADUN: A devastating cloudburst in Dharali, Uttarkashi, which has left 68 people missing and feared buried under a torrent ...