One more body has been recovered from a flood-hit area in Uttarakhand s Chamoli district, taking the toll in the glacial disaster to 62, even as search and rescue operations continued for the 13th day at the NTPC s Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project site. One body was recovered late Thursday night from the banks of the Alaknanda at Helang between Joshimath and Pipalkoti, Chamoli district police said on Friday. The body was found at a coffer barrage of the THDC, it said. With this recovery, the toll in the February 7 disaster has risen to 62 while 142 people are still missing, they said. The number of bodies recovered from the intake Adit tunnel of Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project where a massive search operation has been under way ever since the tragedy struck still stands at 13.
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उत्तराराखंड में चमोली जिले के जोशीमठ में ऋषिगंगा और धौलीगंगा के मुहाने पर बनी झील की स्थिति अभी खतरनाक नहीं है, लेकिन झील से पानी की निकासी बढ़ाने के लिए जलधाराएं बनाई जा सकती हैं। जिन जलधाराओं से पानी की निकासी हो रही है, उन्हें और गहरा किया जा सकता है। यह सुझाव केंद्र सरकार के विभिन्न विभागों और एजेंसियों के वैज्ञानिकों ने दिया। बृहस्पतिवार को झील का मुआयना करने के ल
Scientists studying samples to know roots of Uttarakhand glacier disaster
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Five WIHG researchers travel to disaster site and undertake aerial surveys
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A boulder of ice believed to have rolled down from the Raunthi glacier. Photo courtesy: Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology
Five WIHG researchers travel to disaster site and undertake aerial surveys
A week after a landslip claimed 58 lives in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, a team of scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) in Dehradun are analysing fragments of ice, rock and mud in their labs to better understand the origins of the disaster.
UPDATED: February 14, 2021 08:06 IST
Rescue operations continue at Tapovan tunnel where 30 people are trapped after flash floods in Uttarakhand. (PTI)
Rescuers on Saturday began boring a wider and deeper hole into the tunnel at the flood-ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project in an attempt to reach the over 30 people trapped inside for nearly a week.
“The Silt Flushing Tunnel (SFT) was punctured on Friday night itself by drilling a 75mm-diameter hole into it but now it is being widened to 300 mm so that a camera and a water flushing pipe could be inserted into the tunnel where the trapped are possibly located,” news agency PTI quoted General Manager of the NTPC project R P Ahirwal as saying.