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Uttarakhand: Indian Army uses trolley to connect villages cut off after glacier burst in Chamoli

Some footbridges were washed away after the flash floods in Uttarakhand. (Photo: ANI)
After the Uttarakhand flash floods cut off various villages from other parts of the region, Indian Army has started using trolleys to transport people from one point to another.
"A footbridge was broken due to flash floods, leaving people in villages disconnected. We've built aerial river crossing to provide connectivity," news agency ANI quoted Major Utkarsh Shukla as saying.
Uttarakhand: Indian Army uses trolley to connect villages cut off after glacier burst in Chamoli
"A footbridge was broken due to flash floods, leaving people in villages disconnected. We've built aerial river crossing to provide connectivity," says Major Utkarsh Shukla pic.twitter.com/aQEWqQeC6K— ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2021

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Uttarakhand Glacier Burst: BRO Builds 200-ft Bailey Bridge in Chamoli For Connectivity, See Pics

Uttarakhand Glacier Burst: BRO Builds 200-ft Bailey Bridge in Chamoli For Connectivity, See Pics
Uttarakhand Glacier Burst: BRO Builds 200-ft Bailey Bridge in Chamoli For Connectivity, See Pics
India | News18.com | February 13, 2021, 4:09 pm
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BRO workers work for construction of a bridge connecting Mallari with Raini village, in flood hit Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. (PTI Photo)
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The Border Roads Orgnisation (BRO) is constructing a 200-feet Bailey bridge at deluge-affected Chamoli area in Uttarakhand to re-establish its connectivity with the Niti border. (ANI Image)
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The Bailey bridge is the fastest the BRO can launch, however, subsequently it will make a permanent bridge for connectivity in Chamoli. (ANI Image)

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Uttarakhand Flood: Toll Rises To 38, Rescue Operation Continues To Locate 168 Missing

Uttarakhand flood: Toll rises to 38, rescue operation continues to locate 168 missing
As per the State Emergency Control Room, 168 people are still missing and at least 184 livestock in Juwa Gwad and Pang villages of Uttarakhand perished in the calamity.
February 13, 2021 / 08:44 AM IST
Scientists are investigating what caused the glacier to break — possibly an avalanche or a release of accumulated water. Experts say climate change may be to blame since warming temperatures are shrinking glaciers and making them unstable worldwide. (Image: AP)
Rescue teams' battle against various odds continued for the sixth consecutive day on February 12 to rescue over 30 people trapped inside the Tapovan tunnel. Two more bodies were recovered from the flash flood-hit areas of Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, taking the toll in the calamity to 38.

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Uttarakhand flash flood: NTPC sets up medical team at Tapovan site

State-run power giant NTPC on Friday said it has set up a medical team of doctors and para-medical staff and started medical camps for general public at Tapovan which was ravaged by a flash flood last Sunday.
"NTPC Tapovan team has brought in an experienced team of doctors, para-medical staff and has started medical camps for the general public at Tapovan.
"Medical consultations along with medicines for the needy has proved to be of great help for the people of the surrounding areas devastated by the disaster," an NTPC statement said.
This initiative in the backdrop of all odds culminating out of the disaster that struck Tapovan in Uttarakhand on Sunday has found many takers amongst the affected lot, it added.

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Uttarakhand glacier burst: No headway in opening Tapovan tunnel; ITBP continues rescue ops

Uttarakhand glacier burst: No headway in opening Tapovan tunnel; ITBP continues rescue ops
Days after a glacier burst triggered massive floods in Rishi Ganga, Dhauli Ganga, and Alaknanda river systems, around 34 bodies have been recovered so far
BusinessToday.In | February 11, 2021 | Updated 09:43 IST
Around 206 people, including 25-35 workers trapped inside the Tapovan tunnel, are still missing
There has been no success in opening the 1,500-metre-long Tapovan tunnel where around 30 people are believed to be trapped. Days after a glacier burst triggered massive floods in Rishi Ganga, Dhauli Ganga, and Alaknanda river systems, around 34 bodies have been recovered so far. Around 206 people, including 25-35 workers trapped inside the Tapovan tunnel, are still missing.

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Drilling operation launched at Tapovan tunnel to rescue trapped workers | India News

JOSHIMATH: Rescuers launched a drilling operation on Thursday at the Tapovan tunnel, where an estimated 30-35 people have been trapped since a flash flood battered various villages and hydro-power projects in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, claiming 34 lives, while about 170 people are still missing.
The focal point of the multi-agency rescue operation for the last over four days remains the more-than-1.5-km-long "head-race tunnel" of the total 2.5 km of the tubular structure, as every passing minute is mounting concerns over the safety of those trapped inside.
"A drilling operation has been started by the rescue teams at 2 am to peep into the slush-flushing tunnel that is about 12-13 metres below," Vivek Kumar Pandey, the spokesperson for the lead rescue agency, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), said in Delhi.

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Uttarakhand glacier burst highlights pressure on Asia's waterways, unsustainable power infra: Experts

Uttarakhand glacier burst highlights pressure on Asia's waterways, unsustainable power infra: Experts
Shrinking glaciers in the regions are threatening water supplies and increasing the chances of landslides and floods, say experts.
Agence France-Presse
February 11, 2021 14:38:03 IST
Damaged dam of the Rishi Ganga Power Project, after a glacier broke off in Joshimath in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district causing a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river on 7 Febraury 2021. Image: PTI
A glacial burst that triggered a deadly flash flood in the Indian Himalayas at the weekend was a disaster waiting to happen, and one likely to be repeated in a region transformed by climate change and unchecked infrastructure development, experts warn. Asia is home to some of the world's biggest waterways, from the Ganges and the Indus in India to the Yangtze and Mekong originating in China, that snake for thousands of kilometres. They support the livelihoods of vast numbers of farmers and fishermen, and supply drinking water to billions of people, but have come under unprecedented pressure in recent years.

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Uttarakhand tunnel rescue work resumes after halt due to rise in water level

According to NDRF officials, the teams were shifted to safer locations in the wake of surging water level and the drilling operation has resumed with limited teams

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Did fish sense the oncoming deluge? | India News

How are the two related? Scientists said the subsurface vibrations of whatever it is that caused the floods may have ‘broken the sensors’ of fish upstream.
“Fish have a lateral line organ (a biological system in aquatic creatures that help them detect movement and pressure changes in water). It’s very sensitive. The slightest disturbance can set it off, sending the fish into a state of shock,” said K Sivakumar, senior scientist at Wildlife Institute of India. “In this case, it’s possible that a sound preceding the flood may have been picked up by the fish. It is also possible an electric wire or some source of power fell into the water and gave them electric shocks. There can be many reasons. This is why we keep saying that dynamite blasting should never be done on a river.”

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Absence of an Early Warning System Cost Many Lives at Joshimath

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
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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 mountains above first spotted the huge column of debris approaching and alerted workers at the site below with shouts and whistles.

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