Landslide destroyed six houses in the Newazantek village of Booni on Thursday.
Residents of Booni, some 75 kilometres in the north of here, told Dawn by telephone that the houses had already been evacuated when boulders started rolling down from the hill.
The dwellers had been shifted to the nearby Junali Kotch village where they had been lodged in tents.
A massive landslide yesterday around 1 pm at Takti, on the Phuentsholing-Thimphu highway, killed a Dantak site supervisor on the spot and swept away a tipper truck with its driver and assistant.
The government has approved a plan, with an outlay of Rs 6 crore, for the rehabilitation of Kuleth village in the Bharmour tribal area of Chamba district, as it was under an imminent threat of sliding down into the Ravi.
Evaluation of the morphometric parameters requires preparation of drainage map, contour map, ordering of the various streams and measurements of catchment area, perimeter, relative relief, relief ratio, length of drainage channels, drainage density, drainage frequency, bifurcation ratio, texture ratio, circulatory ratio and constant channel maintenance, which help to understand the nature of the d
In Nepal, disaster mitigation is considered as a humanitarian activity and more focus is given on post disaster activity. This report prepared for East & Southeast Asia regional seminar on flood hazard mapping, 17-19 Feb, 2009, Manila, Philippines.
If you are talking about the Himalayas, then Mountains of Concrete is not a very apt title for a report in many ways. In fact, when a meeting to launch this report in Delhi was announced, some officials of the water resources establishment were angry. They felt this was an insult to the dam building plans of the government.
Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 14
With glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) posing a huge development challenge to the countries in the Himalayan belt, the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention yesterday said it would hold a special workshop to discuss the issue.
Kalimpong, Jan. 8: The District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), Darjeeling, in response to certain queries under the provisions of the Right to Information Act has provided what could only be described as
