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State governments have adopted a fragmented approach, with planning based on local political pressures and haphazard bureaucratic decision-making ...
Know the science behind cloudburst, this intense weather phenomenon, what drives their intensity and the critical role ...
The Dharali and Kishtwar tragedies must not fade into another chapter of ignored warnings. A dedicated climate and ...
A spate of cloudbursts, flash floods and landslides across the Himalayan states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand this monsoon has again laid bare the mountain's risk to short, vi ...
The Himalayas are crumbling under the weight of human ambition and a changing climate. From Kedarnath to Kishtwar, disasters now strike with deadly regularity, exposing how reckless development and ...
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Warnings Ignored

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 ...
Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area. The intense, ...
India's Himalayan region experienced severe cloudbursts in the fall of 2025, particularly affecting Uttarakhand and Jammu & ...
Flash floods and landslides caused widespread havoc across several regions of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and ...
From blocked highways in Himachal Pradesh to devastating cloudbursts in Jammu and Kashmir which have claimed dozens of lives ...
J&K CM Omar Abdullah, who reached Kishtwar via the Sinthan Pass on Friday evening, travelled by road to the affected village ...