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More than 100 people are missing in India’s northeast after heavy rain caused a glacial lake to burst, leading to flash floods which ripped through the Himalayan state of Sikkim Wednesday, killing at ...
News India » Sikkim » People: "India is merging with Sikkim, not the other way round."
Pawan Chamling, chief minister of Sikkim, has three overriding concerns: security, sustainable development, and maintaining Sikkimese identity. Nepali Times spoke with him in Gangtok last week about ...
News India » Sikkim » People: Floods in India’s Sikkim kill 10; dozens including 23 army soldiers missing
At least 10 people have been killed in India’s state of Sikkim and 82 others, including 23 army personnel, are missing after heavy rainfall caused the glacial Lhonak Lake to overflow, spurring ...
News India » Sikkim » People: Glacial Lakes Threaten Millions in a Warming World
“We saw houses vanish in front of our eyes,” says Aadesh, an engineer living in the northern Indian state of Sikkim. One of them was his own. In the early hours of October 4, Lhonak Lake—a Himalayan ...
News India » Sikkim » People: Death toll rises to 14 in India’s Sikkim flooding, dozens still missing
The death toll has risen to at least 14 people after flooding in India’s northeastern state of Sikkim that came after heavy rainfall caused the glacial Lhonak lake to overflow. At least 26 people were ...
News India » Sikkim » People: Himalayan region landslides kills 10, leaves 2,400 tourists stranded in northeastern India
At least 10 people have died in flooding and landslides across Himalayan regions of India and Nepal following heavy rainfall on Thursday, according to local officials. The severe downpours have also ...
News India » Sikkim » People: Ecological Disasters in Sikkim: A Skewed Security-Development Balance in the Himalayas?
A bulldozer remover mud and sand to recover vehicles and missing people along the Teesta river in Singtam, , east Sikkim, India, Oct. 8. 2023. Alongside factors such as climate change, local ...
News India » Sikkim » People: Sikkim: 8 Mansarovar pilgrims stranded in Tibet after flash floods, all safe
Eight Sikkim residents, who were on the Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra, were stranded in Tibet after a flash flood hit the region two days ago, the state disaster management authority said on Friday. They ...
News India » Sikkim » People: Toxic gas kills 12 in Sikkim hydropower tunnel
Sudden release of suspected methane gas killed 12 workers, and 13 others remained trapped inside an under-construction tunnel of the NHPC’s Teesta State-VI Hydroelectric Project in Sikkim’s Namchi ...
News India » Sikkim » People: Earth scientists study Sikkim flood in India to help others prepare for similar disasters
Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters. Experts from the global Earth ...