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A combined analysis by educational institutions in Greece, specializing in remote sensing techniques, indicates the displacement of the Joshimath region exceeding 10 cm per year over a period of the past four years.

Cracks have developed in the walls of Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam's (GMVN) guest house in the holy city of Joshimath in Uttarakhand.The cracks were noticed in the building, located near Gandhi Maidan, on Wednesday by a team of officers and ...

Also, with many houses in the town developing huge cracks, the velocity of the water source that has been flowing from under the houses is now continuously receding.Acco

Water discharge – which may have played a role in the subsidence – has reduced in Joshimath, said authorities.

Home of the Chipko movement, they’ve already been warned of imminent danger by experts.

Almost 35 per cent of the affected people of Joshimath are ready to shift to accommodations being offered by the government in Pipalkoti, sources said.

Small businesspersons in the Himalayan town wonder how their lives could have been upended so completely - and so fast

Also, with many houses in the town developing huge cracks, the velocity of the water source that has been flowing from under the houses is now continuously receding.Acco

The number of houses to develop cracks in Joshimath stands at 849 while 259 affected families have been shifted to temporary relief centres, as per an official.

Among the many fallouts of two years of Covid confinement was a sudden rise in the number of people transiting airports and crisscrossing the world to get ..