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Uttarakhand glacial burst: New NASA satellite images show crack in mountain ice months before tragedy Months before the landslide, satellite images showed a crack opening on an ice-covered flank of Ronti mountain peak in Uttarakhand. (Image source: NASA Earth Observatory) Share Updated: Feb 26, 2021, 11:21 AM IST The tragedy that stuck Uttarkhands Chamoli on February 7 is remembered by all. A chunk of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off, triggering an avalanche, leadi...

INDIA New England News New Delhi– Did the CIA, in association with Indias Intelligence Bureau, clandestinely plant nuclear devices on Nanda Devi, the second highest mountain in India, in the 1950s to spy on Chinas nuclear programme and which are said to have led to a glacier break and triggered the devastating floods in Uttarakhand earlier this month? The truth may never be known but award-winning author Scott Ellsworth’s new book, “The World Beneath Their Feet” (Hachette), ...

Uttarakhand glacial disaster death toll climbs to 70 Updated: Updated: February 24, 2021 18:24 IST The government has issued a notification authorising officials to declare "presumed dead" 136 people who are missing after the flash flood. Share Article AAA Rescue and restoration work underway near Tapovan tunnel, after a glacier burst on February 7 triggered a flash flood, in Chamoli district on February 23.   | Photo Credit: PTI The government has issued a notification authorising officials t...

Hundreds of skeletons fill this remote Himalayan lake. How did they get there? Stephanie Pappas © Provided by Live Science Human bones scattered at Roopkund Lake. High in the Himalayas, a four-to-five-day trek from the nearest village, sits an unassuming glacial lake called Roopkund. The spot is beautiful, a dollop of jewel-toned water amid rough gravel and scree, but hardly out of the ordinary for the rugged landscape — except for the hundreds of human bones scattered with...

Behind the Chamoli Disaster: ‘I Expect to See More Such Events’ ‘Is there no less lethal way to generate electricity?’ BHUBANESHWAR: On Sunday morning, Feb. 7, as most of the working-class in India’s Himalayan state of Uttarakhand went about their chores, the glacier-fed Rishi Ganga river started rising. Two hours later, swollen with rock debris and snowmelt, its waters rose 53 feet — the height equivalent of a five-storey building. The Dehradun-based Indian Institute of Remote Sen...

Saeed Naqvi (Saeed Naqvi is a senior commentator on political and diplomatic issues. The views expressed are personal. He can be reached on saeednaqvi@hotmail.com) I had no business to forget Badshah Khans 130th birthday this February, having been his press secretary when he came on a years "healing mission" as guest of both the political camps led by Indira Gandhi and Jayaprakash Narayan. The international system is trying to compose itself today. It was dividing itself sharply during the Pash...

In Photos: Kashmir In the Last Couple of Weeks In Photos: Kashmir In the Last Couple of Weeks Tchay-e-gard shikar (shadow fishing) Kashmiri fishermen covered in torn blankets, hold harpoons as they wait to catch the fish in the Anchar lake in Srinagar. The fishermen camouflage their presence and lure the fish into a trap with the help of reeds and waves by beating the water.     A kashmiri artisan Ghulam Nabir Dar, 67 carves wood at his workshop in downtown Srinagar. Ghulam Nabi Dar is a ma...

Share Via Email LA-based Mulberry Films has acquired the rights to multiple bestselling books for film and television adaption. Mulberry’s project Nanda Devi has recently been in the headlines because of the tragic glacier burst in Uttarakhand. In 1965, the United States and India collaborated in an attempt to install a listening device at 25,000 feet on the mountain Nanda Devi to monitor the nearby Chinese nuclear test site. The listening device was powered by highly radioactive plutonium, ...

Uttarakhand tragedy on reels Updated Feb 24, 2021, 12:03 am IST Indian-American Hollywood producer Rashaana Shah’s Mulberry Films will put the stories of real-life heroes on the silver screen  Rashaana Shah Natural and man-made disasters have always been an attractive subject for filmmakers. For almost half a century, films based on earthquakes, volcanos, cyclones, tornadoes and pandemics, apart from a host of other disasters, have kept audiences on the edge of their seats. Bollywood ref...

Did nuclear spy devices in the Himalayas trigger India floods? BBC 22nd February, 2021 11:48:37 In a village in the Indian Himalayas, generations of residents have believed that nuclear devices lie buried under the snow and rocks in the towering mountains above. So when Raini got hit by a huge flood earlier in February, villagers panicked and rumours flew that the devices had "exploded" and triggered the deluge. In reality, scientists believe, a piece of broken glacier was responsible for the ...