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  Heavy rains continue to lash Uttarakhand

  India | July 18, 2013 16:26 IST

  Dehradun, Jul 18: Heavy rains continued to lash various parts of Uttarakhand today following which water level in several rivers has increased here.The water level has increased in Ganga and various rivers including Yamuna, Kosi

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  Uttarakhand: ASI finds cracks in Kedarnath temple, sanctum sanctorum safe

  India | July 16, 2013 17:46 IST

  New Delhi, July 16 :  Huge cracks have developed in some places in the Kedarnath shrine, which faced the fury of last month's floods, although the sanctum sanctorum has escaped damage, according to preliminary assessment

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  Uttarakhand disaster: a month after, 5748 still missing

  India | July 15, 2013 20:36 IST

  Dehradun, July 15: The deadline for locating 5,748 people still missing in the Uttarakhand disaster ended on Monday, exactly a month after the catastrophe, but Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said they will not be declared

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  IAF 'evacuates' helicopter amid landslide warning in Uttarakhand

  India | July 12, 2013 20:13 IST

  New Delhi, July 12: After evacuating over one lakh people stranded in flash-flood hit Uttarakhand, Indian Air Force pilots (IAF) "rescued" a helicopter parked at a helipad in Gauchar Thursday night.The pilots were woken up

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  Uttarakhand: Over 2,000 from UP still missing

  India | July 09, 2013 19:17 IST

  Lucknow, July 9: More than 2,000 people from Uttar Pradesh are still missing in Uttrakhand, where flash floods following heavy rains had wreaked havoc last month.  Special Secretary (Home) Rakesh Chandra said here that with

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  Relief operations resume in Uttarakhand as skies clear up

  India | July 09, 2013 20:18 IST

  Dehradun, July 9: Relief operations resumed in disaster-hit Uttarakhand on Tuesday as the weather cleared up after three days even as most of the personnel engaged in clearing debris and cremating bodies at Kedarnath were

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  Uttarakhand students can use KV school premises in flood-hit areas

  India | July 08, 2013 21:54 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 7 : The premises of 25 Kendriya Vidyalaya premises would be available for studies of students of flood-ravaged Uttarakhand.Minister of State for Human Resource Development Jitin Prasada today said the state government

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  Uttarakhand: 3 killed as rains stall relief efforts, 4700 missing so far

  India | July 08, 2013 17:24 IST

  Dehradun, July 8 :  Three members of a family were today killed in a house collapse as a fresh spell of rains stalled relief operations in flood-ravanged Uttarakhand, where the authorities said that the number

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  Uttarakhand: Unmanned aerial vehicle to be deployed in Kedarnath

  India | July 08, 2013 17:29 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 8 :  An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) will be deployed in flood-hit Kedarnath to help authorities assess the damage and look for stranded people braving difficult condition after the calamity hit parts

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  Uttarakhand: Fresh rain hinders relief work in remote

  India | July 07, 2013 18:10 IST

  Dehradun, July 7: Fresh spell of rains on Sunday halted helicopter operations to ferry rations to remote Uttarakhand districts reeling under shortage of foodgrains even as wet weather put brakes on the task of cremation

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  Uttarakhand: Missing to be presumed dead by July 15: Bahuguna

  India | July 04, 2013 20:46 IST

  Dehradun, July 4: Pegging the number of pilgrims missing after the recent natural calamity in Uttarakhand at more than 3000, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna today said if they don't surface till July 15 they will

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  Uttarakhand:Hundred Badrinath pilgrims await evacuation, says NDMA

  India | July 03, 2013 17:00 IST

  Dehradun, July 3: Rescue operations at Badrinath in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand have not ended yet, as about hundred pilgrims and 200 local people are still to be evacuated, a disaster management official said Wednesday."Still we have

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  Uttarakhand:Watch live video of cars, buses washed away in Sonprayag

  India | July 03, 2013 12:35 IST

  New Delhi, July 3 : An alert India TV viewer Mohammed Fayaz has sent a video of cars, buses being washed away by the furious Mandakini and Vasuki rivers on the morning of June 17

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  Uttarakhand floods: Tourism in state worst hit by calamity

  June 25, 2013 18:22 IST

  Dehradun, June 25: Tourism has been worst hit in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, with pilgrims fleeing the disaster-struck state and tourists cancelling their bookings.May and June are considered peak season for tourism in the state with hotels

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  Uttarakhand: UN disaster management team monitoring situation

  India | June 24, 2013 13:29 IST

  United Nations,Jun 24: The UN is closely monitoring the situation in India's north, where torrential rains have triggered floods and landslides that have killed hundreds of people.UN spokesperson Eduardo del Buey told reporters yesterday in

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  Uttarakhand: Rains hamper rescue efforts, 10,000 still stranded, death toll may touch 5,000

  India | June 24, 2013 8:42 IST

  Badrinath/Kedarnath/Guptakashi, Jun 24: Late-night and early morning showers in Gauchar, Harsil, Dehradun and Guptakashi on Monday hampered fresh rescue efforts with the met department predicting that heavy rains may occur within the next 24 hous.

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  Uttarakhand: Narendra Modi makes aerial survey, Shinde questions VVIP tours

  Politics | June 22, 2013 18:25 IST

  Dehrdun, Jun 22 : Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today made an aerial survey of flood-ravaged areas of Kedarnath, Badrinath and Uttarkashi.He will meet the Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna in the evening. Modi's aerial

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  Congress downplays Rahul's absence from Uttarakhand

  Politics | June 22, 2013 12:00 IST

  New Delhi, June 22: The Congress Friday downplayed the absence of party vice president Rahul Gandhi when a major tragedy has struck Uttarakhand and said the party's top leadership, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and

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  Uttarakhand death toll crosses 550, 50,000 still stranded

  India | June 22, 2013 7:26 IST

  Dehradun, Jun 22: The death toll in flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand crossed 550 as rescuers intensified efforts today to evacuate 50,000 people still stranded in different inaccessible parts of the hill state.Chief Minister

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  Uttarakhand: Tales of misery and human endurance from the hills

  India | June 22, 2013 7:28 IST

  New Delhi, June 22 :  After being stranded for days without food on a small stretch of hilly road that did not cave in, a Rajasthan trader made it to safety Friday with tales of