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New satellite images show the extent of the damage caused by deadly flash floods that hit a village in India's north-eastern state of Sikkim in October.
Restrictions had been imposed on vehicles on the highway following the devastation caused by the glacier lake outburst flood (GLOF) from the South Lhonak Lake in Sikkim on the intervening night of October 3 and 4. The flood had severely damaged NH10, which links Sikkim to the rest of the country
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, on Saturday departed for his visit to Sikkim and West Bengal, where he is scheduled to give teachings from December 12 to 14.
While hearing a PIL pertaining to the reservation of seats for Limbu and Tamang communities in the Sikkim and the Bengal Assemblies last month, the Supreme Court had asked the Centre to reconstitute the delimitation commission and consider the demand
The BJP, which rules the centre, is in power in Uttarakhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa, Assam, Tripura, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh, and is all set to get Madhya Pradesh back and snatch Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh from the Congress after today's vote count.
The exercise by scientists from India, Switzerland and the US has also indicated that 1,770 Himalayan glacial lakes are exposed to possible landslides or avalanches that could trigger glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs)