Sunday, Sep 26, 2021
Sep 24, 2021 Ashwani Sharma Thick fog engulfing the hills for the past 24 hours created havoc trouble for the travellers which also resulted in several road accidents. Few of these were fatal, others left many people injured due to skidding of the vehicles and mid-way collusions .
Sep 06, 2021 Ashwani Sharma The National Highway remains blocked due to the debris falling on the road and also caving in a portion of the NH at the affected site.
'No means, No' is a powerful slogan coined by the locals in Kinnaur supported by some social and environmental groups to stop sanctioning of any new hydel projects, almost on the lines of Uttarakhand’s famous “Chipko anadolan” – a mass movement to save the forests there .
Aug 20, 2021 Outlook Web Desk 57-year-old Nand Lal died around 11 am in a landslide caused by illegal sand mining in his Fhirnu village in Karsog tehsil.
Saturday’s earthquake also left at least 5,700 people injured in the Caribbean nation, with thousands more displaced from their destroyed or damaged homes.
The wreckage of the HRTC bus was traced but no trace of the missing Bolero has been found so far.
Only 10 to 15 percent of the discharge of the river is possible now and water level has started rising in the catchments of the river.
The officials have said that 15 persons are still feared buried under the debris.
Several others are still feared buried under the debris.
Two army helicopters have been arranged for rescue operation
Three people were trapped under debris after a landslide occurred in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district on Tuesday
The district administration had earlier tried to airlift the tourists and locals stranded in the area but inclement weather posed a challenge to fly the choppers.
Kinnaur is already identified as a high landslide and disaster-prone zone. And yet it is the hub of intense construction activity like hydropower and massive land-use changes.
Locals and tourists to stay away from water bodies in the coming days
The Paonta Sahib-Shillai national highway 707 was closed for vehicular traffic after about a 100 metre stretch of the road caved near kali Dhank Badwas following heavy downpour for the last 2 days in Sirmaur district.
The incident occurred near the Kinnaur-Kaza national highway, located 325 km from Shimla. No loss of lives were reported
At least nine tourists are feared dead and four injured when a rockslide from the high mountains of Sangla valley hit a tourist vehicle which was on its way to Chitkul.
According to the information from the State Disaster Management Authority, till last evening, 131 villages in 18 taluks of the state have been affected by rains and floods, and 16,213 people have been affected and three people have died, while two were missing.
Prime Miniter Narendra Modi welcomed by Indian community in New York.
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Prime Miniter Narendra Modi welcomed by Indian community in New York.
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York.
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A dead body hangs from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan. A witness told The Associated Press that the bodies of four men were brought to the main square and three of them were moved to...
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