Flash Floods
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Sikkim flash floods toll rises to 40, over 70 still missing
Twenty relief camps sheltering 2,080 people have been set up.
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Sikkim flash floods: Toll rises to 22, another lake may burst soon
At least 103 people, including 15 soldiers, are still missing.
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Sikkim flash floods toll climbs to 14, over 100 missing
The floods were triggered by a glacial lake outburst in northern Lachen valley.
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Eight dead as flash floods hit northern Sikkim, 49 missing
Those missing include Army personnel.
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As Hyderabad grapples with extreme rainfall and floods, it should draft a long-term mitigation plan
The major IT centre continues to expand and urbanise rapidly despite erratic weather changes.
M Somasekhar
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Frequent floods in the Brahmaputra are eating away at Assam’s tribal lands
The Mising people are now running out of space after decades of flooding and riverbank erosion.
Moushumi Basu, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Uttarakhand glacier disaster: 136 missing people to be declared dead
The rescuers had recovered 68 bodies till Monday.
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Uttarakhand glacier disaster: Toll rises to 68, more than 135 people still missing
The Navy and the IAF launched a joint operation to measure the depth of the glacial lake formed upstream from Tapovan after the flash flood.
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Uttarakhand disaster: Toll rises to 58 as two more bodies found in Chamoli, 146 people still missing
The rescue operations continued for the tenth straight day on Tuesday.
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Uttarakhand disaster: Toll rises to 56, rescue operations under way for ninth day at Tapovan tunnel
National Disaster Response Force Commandment PK Tiwari said that they are facing a few difficulties in taking out the bodies from the tunnel.
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Uttarakhand glacier disaster : Toll rises to 50, rescue operation continues at Tapovan tunnel
On Saturday, rescuers began drilling a deeper hole into the tunnel to reach those trapped inside.
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Uttarakhand disaster: Rescue teams widen hole in Tapovan tunnel to reach over 30 trapped workers
At least 38 people have died and 166 are missing after a part of a glacier broke off on February 7, unleashing flash floods in the state.
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