Absence of an Early Warning System Cost Many Lives at Joshimath Lessons from the 2013 Kedarnath tragedy were never learnt, and the state only got its first Doppler radar in 2020. Members of Indo-Tibetan Border Police watch as a machine is used to clear a tunnel after the flood, in Tapovan, Uttarakhand, February 8, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Stringer Government10/Feb/2021 New Delhi: As a part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in Joshimath, in Chamoli district, and hurtled downstream on the Dhauli Ganga, towards the Tapovan hydroelectric power project, some people idling under the Sunday sun in the...