Dehradun/Lucknow: Water levels at the Tehri dam rose menacingly, following incessant rain in the hills of Uttarakhand, and the release of waters from its massive reservoir to avoid breaches threatened flooding of nearly 1,200 villages downstream along the Ganga.
But a threat of floods in Haridwar passed, with Tehri authorities staggering flows to avoid a sudden surge.
Heavy monsoon rains and landslides swept the hilly areas of northern India over the weekend, killing at least 47 people, officials said Monday.
Twenty-four people died Sunday as falling boulders crushed their homes in three villages in Almorah district in Uttrakhand state, said Prashant Kumar Tamta, a state government spokesman.
Several people were swept away by floodwaters or buried when ho
Top BJP leaders L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj on Sunday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram about the grave flood situation in the BJP-ruled state of Uttarakhand.
Sources in the BJP said Uttarakhand CM Ramesh Pokhriyal
Dehradun: A day after 18 students died as their school building caved in following landslides, the state government on Friday decided to relocate 101 villages situated in extremely dangerous and seismologically sensitive places across Garhwal and Kumaon regions.
Chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said in Bageshwar that the government had identified the villages on the basis of a survey
At least 18 children, all below the age of 10, died this morning after a landslide triggered by a cloudburst struck a primary school building in the hills of Bageshwar in Uttarakhand. Thirty students and two teachers were in the school at the time of the incident.
Eight injured children have been pulled out of the debris but the teachers are still missing.
Heavy rains lashed a remote section of northwestern China as the toll from weekend flooding that triggered massive landslides jumped to 1,117, although the fading hopes of rescuers got a boost late on Wednesday when a survivor was found in the debris.
