Amid fears of thousands dying in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand, relief and rescue operations were intensified on Thursday with eight additional IAF choppers pressed into service to evacuate stranded......
An accurate early warning system that correlates rainfall and the potential for landslides. That is the imperative, say experts as rains create havoc in hills across India and the toll mounts in......
Six persons were killed while an Army jawan is missing after two separate cloudbursts in Dharchula sub division of the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand early on Monday. According to......
Aided by widespread rainfall since Tuesday, forest fires which ravaged thousands of hectares of green cover in Uttarakhand were doused completely on Thursday with no reports of fresh blaze......
At least 50 major landslides occurred in just four road stretches in calamity-torn Uttarakhand, where hundreds of pilgrims are feared to have perished in flash floods, an official said. "Extensive......
The World Bank will extend a loan of $1.5 billion (about Rs 6,800 crore) to India for building 24,000 km of all-weather roads in the rural areas of seven economically poor and hilly states like......
Swarms of immature pink locusts and adult yellow locusts are currrently active. Not only are fresh locusts swarms expected to arrive in the coming weeks, but even those already present in India......