Hridayesh Joshi

Pradeep Panwar’s, 32, life collapsed in a matter of seconds on August 5, last year, when a massive flood and landslide tore through Dharali village in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, killing more than 50 lives. His shop and taxi—his family’s only sources of income—were destroyed.

In the mist-clad valleys of the Himalayas, where villages cling to fragile slopes and rivers roar with monsoon fury, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is grappling with one of its greatest challenges: predicting the unpredictable. Each year between June and September, unusual bursts of

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Even as the Uttarakhand govt blames the rapidly growing presence of pine for the uncontrolled…

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Noted Gandhian Sunderlal Bahuguna, known for leading Chipko in the 1970s and the anti-Tehri dam…

Nearly two weeks after disaster struck Uttarakhand’s remote villages in Chamoli district, the search and…