Decides to open regional office in Dehradun, which will serve until permanent steps are taken

The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on Wednesday decided to open a regional office in Dehradun, which will serve the State until permanent steps are taken.

A regional MoEF office would be opened in Dehradun for quick disposal of various projects in the wake of the June 16-17 devastation

A government report has pinned the responsibility of the Uttarakhand disaster on “haphazard human intervention” -- hydel projects, mining, de-forestation and infrastructure for religious tourism, w

In one of the first consolidated reports on Uttarakhand floods, the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) under the Union Home Ministry has said that “climatic conditions combined with h

Following the calamitous deluge in Uttarakhand, as criticism mounted that too many hydel projects were destabilising the hills, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna claimed that but for the Tehri dam, Ris

দ্রীনাথকে ঘিরেছে আতঙ্কের ছায়া।

इस प्रदेश का आपदा प्रबंध तंत्र खुद ही आपदाग्रस्त है। तीन बड़ी आपदाओं के बाद भी राज्य आपदा प्राधिकरण को सक्रिय नहीं किया गया। आलम यह है कि 17 जून को केदारनाथ की तबाही का संकेत मिलने के बाद भी इसी दि

A five-member team of the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) will leave for Uttarakhand on Wednesday on a four-day study trip to set up a system which would alert the local population

7 जून की पिथौरागढ़ जिले में आई आपदा का प्रमुख कारण लापा ग्लेशियर टूटना रहा। धारचूला से 60 किमी दूर तीदांग से लेकर धारचूला, बलुवाकोट, जौलजीबी, झूलाघाट तक तबाही मचाने में तीदांग के लापा ग्लेशियर के स

Three members of a family were today killed in a house collapse as a fresh spell of rains stalled relief operations in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, where the authorities said that the number of p