The cloudburst has also caused widespread devastation. Rescue teams fear the toll could rise as several people remain missing.

The Indian Army is also using sniffer dogs and thermal scanners to look for nine jawans who went missing after the cloudburst and are believed to be trapped in the mud at the Harshil Army Camp.

The biggest challenge for rescuers is to locate those possibly trapped under debris, some buried 40–50 feet above what was ...

Chashoti: A massive cloudburst struck the Chashoti area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Thursday, leaving at ...

Dharali village in Uttarakhand was devastated by six consecutive flash floods that destroyed infrastructure, cut off ...

A massive cloudburst hit Chashoti in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Thursday, triggering flash floods and raising ...

Locals say nearly 100 people have been missing since the flash flood.

Earlier on Tuesday, authorities continued air operations to rescue the stranded people in the areas of Dharali and Harsil in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, where flash floods hit on August 5, ...

A global ‘extinction of experience’ is underway. As we stop seeing, naming, and loving the natural world around us, we lose not only biodiversity but also the capacity to care for the environment that ...

RECCO is becoming increasingly common in outdoor gear, and SAR teams around the world are relying on it — but the rescue ...

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has raised a red alert, cautioning against an imminent threat of flash floods ...

It had already been raining incessantly for a month. Then on the afternoon of 5th August, panic spread through the valley.