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If there’s a good geological metaphor, it might just be a landslide; it doesn’t start so dramatically or damagingly, but as time goes by gains momentum and gets harder to stop. That makes this ...
In Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, authorities sealed 10 houses and relocated 22 families from Tiyath-Patharnaki due to landslide threats. The Kishtwar-Paddar road remains closed for the ...
I am old enough to remember the disappearance of estate agent, Suzy Lamplugh, when she went to show a prospective buyer a property she was selling. Her body has never been found and no one held ...
A groom in Jammu and Kashmir, Mashkoor, had to walk to his wedding venue after landslides blocked the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway due to heavy rainfall. Starting at 6 am, he and his procession ...
Nguyen Thi Kim's small verdant community in northern Vietnam no longer exists, wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi's devastating heavy rains last year. She and dozens of survivors ...
A Yonkers councilmember is calling on the city to implement new safety reforms on local buildings after a landslide damaged a business in early April. Councilmember Anthony J. Merante is urging ...
At least 22 families have been shifted as a precautionary measure due to the lurking threat of a landslide in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, a government official said. Traffic ...
Residents blame blasting by agency working on the 624 MW Kiru Hydro-Electric project, a run-of-river scheme, while district authorities are on alert At least 22 families have been shifted as a ...
I was the last one out, and I glimpsed what looked like a dusty black bear lamming into the brush. “That’s a glacier bear!” Fraker yelled. I didn’t know much about glacier bears, but I knew enough to ...
A landslide off Route 28 on April 4 severely damaged the village of Herkimer’s major water main, forcing a state of emergency that's now lifted. On April 21, the village released a statement on ...
In second visit to Ramban in 24 hours, CM takes stock of ground situation, assures relief to flashflood-affected families. Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was surrounded by angry ...