| Dehradun: In order to deal with the recurring problem of landslides in Uttarakhand, the government has decided to set up a state level Landslide Management Committee to prepare a long-term road

Weeks of torrential rain across central and southern China have caused the country’s worst flooding since 1998, killing 173 people, ruining farms and cutting major transportation arteries -- and cr

Nine people were killed and 18 are missing after wind and driving rain bought by the remains of super typhoon Nepartak swept into China over the weekend, the government said on Monday.

YECHENG -- A group of 198 villagers have been relocated after a massive landslide on Wednesday killed 35 at a village in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

AT least six people were dead and eight others missing after Typhoon Nepartak battered China’s east coast with heavy rain and strong winds that toppled homes and triggered landslides, officials in

URUMQI - At least 35 people died in a landslide in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region early on Wednesday, local authorities confirmed Thursday.

DEHRADUN: A team of experts from the Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre (DMMC) is conducting a geological study of the villages in Pithoragarh that were hit by landslides triggered by cloudb

The rescue operations launched in the wake of heavy rains and cloudbursts in hilly state of Uttarakhand were wound up today in most places except in Bastadi in Pithoragarh district which bore the m

Dehradun: The search and rescue teams have recovered four more bodies from the debris in the cloudburst-hit villages of Pithoragarh district, raising the death toll in the natural disaster to 20 wh

DEHRADUN/ALMORA: Over 900 villages across the state had plunged into darkness when cloudbursts and incessant rains hit Uttarakhand on July 1. Of these, around 150 are still in the dark.

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