West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee mourns electrocution deaths after heavy rain, slams CESC, blames Centre for waterlogging, declares school holidays.
A devastating cloudburst struck Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district causing severe flooding and destruction in Thach village.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday expressed his distress over the cloudburst in Chamoli's Nanda Nagar and said that he is constantly monitoring the rescue and relief operations.
Overnight downpour in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla caused widespread damage and panic among the residents in the city.
Torrential rains and a cloudburst in Uttarakhand have caused massive destruction, sweeping away shops, inundating temples, and leaving several missing. Shocking videos show labourers washed away in Dehradun’s Tons river, while NDRF rescued a child from the flooded Swarna river.
Jammu and Kashmir has been reeling under heavy rains, witnessing widespread damage with multiple incidents of cloudburst-triggered flash floods and landslides.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday handed out ₹ 5 lakh cheques to the victims of Tharali cloudburst in the district Chamoli that left two dead and more than 30 injured on Saturday.
The Kailash pilgrimage is in the Bhaderwah sub-division of Doda with a 21-km difficult trek.
Almost identical statements, a decade apart, by Chief Ministers of two different political parties, reveal the crux of the problem – a flawed development model, imagined and implemented for Uttarakhand. Successive Governments have tried to stimulate economic activity through tourism and massive infrastructure projects. Such misplaced zeal for development has made the Government brush aside environmental concerns.
Soon after returning from the devastated village, Dr. Jitendra Singh visited the hospital here.
