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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 Uttarkhand's Chamoli on February 7 is remembered by all. A chunk of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off, triggering an avalanche, leading to flash floods and mass destruction in the area. 'A torrent of rock, ice, sediment, and water s...

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), is bound to revive the debate in the context of one of the most compelling international dramas of t...

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 to declare "presumed dead" 136 people who are missing after the flash flood. Rescuers have recovered ...

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 within and around the lake. These bones, belonging to between 300 and 800 people, have been a mystery si...

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 Sensing (IIRS), part of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), estimates that approximately 2 to 3 ...