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Dhanbad (Jharkhand), Apr 1 (PTI) The bodies of three members of a family were recovered on Wednesday, a day after their house collapsed during a suspected land subsidence in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, a police officer said. Two houses had caved in at Tandabadi Basti under Sonardih police station limits on Tuesday evening, the officer said. While three people were inside one of the houses at the time of the incident, no one was present in the other, he added. Baghmara sub-divisional police ...Read More >
RANCHI: In a shocking incident in underground fire-affected Dhanbad, three people were buried alive after a house suddenly collapsed into the ground following a massive explosion. According to locals, the rescue operation began at least four hours after the incident, after which the bodies of the three victims were recovered. Manohar Oraon's house was completely destroyed in the collapse, trapping the victims beneath the debris. The deceased have been identified as Manohar Oraon (60), his 17-y ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 30 (PTI) For years, the ground beneath southwest Delhi quietly sank as its aquifers ran dry. Now, satellites show a rare reversal; the land in Dwarka is lifting again, a sign that the city's long-depleted groundwater is slowly bouncing back, a study claimed. The research paper, titled 'InSAR Reveals Recovery of Stressed Aquifer Systems in Parts of Delhi, India', published in the Water Resources Research journal, examined satellite data from October 2014 to October 2023. Land sub ...Read More >
The house built from savings, made painstakingly through years of hard labour, has now collapsed, putting his family in a precarious place. "For the past six to seven days, the land in our village has been sinking. It started with small cracks in our houses after the rains stopped around September 3, but now there are four to five-foot deep cracks in the earth," Javaid tells PTI. Eyes brimming with tears, he adds, "I spent lakhs of rupees building this house with every penny I saved. My house ...Read More >
Poonch, Sep 13: Continuous rainfall has triggered landslides, land subsidence, and flash floods, forcing hundreds of families from their homes and leaving several areas in Poonch and Ramban districts of the Jammu division on edge. As per the news agency -- Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the Kalaban village of Poonch district's Mendhar sector has been declared unsafe after the soil beneath residential areas began shifting earlier this week. Officials said that around 95 houses have developed crac ...Read More >
Jammu, September 13: Union Minister Jitendra Singh visited the flood-affected areas in Jammu on Saturday. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was monitoring the situation in flood-hit Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, and the administration has also been instructed to extend full cooperation to the people. Singh said, "Everyone knows how the entire region has been flood-affected. Prime Minister Modi is monitoring every moment of all three states (Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu ...Read More >
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 13 (ANI): Union Minister Jitendra Singh visited the flood-affected areas in Jammu on Saturday. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was monitoring the situation in flood-hit Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, and the administration has also been instructed to extend full cooperation to the people. Singh said, "Everyone knows how the entire region has been flood-affected. Prime Minister Modi is monitoring every moment of all three state ...Read More >
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 13 (ANI): Union Minister Jitendra Singh visited the flood-affected areas in Jammu on Saturday. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was monitoring the situation in flood-hit Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, and the administration has also been instructed to extend full cooperation to the people. Singh said, "Everyone knows how the entire region has been flood-affected. Prime Minister Modi is monitoring every moment of all three state ...Read More >
Several houses in the Tanger area of Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district have developed cracks, reportedly due to land subsidence. The administration has declared the area unsafe and advised residents to evacuate temporarily. The local authorities, including Ramban MLA Arjun Singh Raju, Deputy Commissioner and DDC, have assessed the situation and assured residents that the government will provide necessary support, including relocation to safer areas and compensation for damages. Raju said th ...Read More >
Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 13 (ANI): Authorities in the Mendhar sector of Poonch district have begun relocating families from Kalaban village after continuous landslides and land subsidence rendered the area unsafe. Around 700 people have been affected, while nearly 95 residential structures developed cracks following days of heavy rainfall. Officials said the administration has declared the village unsafe, and residents have been advised to evacuate temporarily. Those affect ...Read More >
Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 13 (ANI): Authorities in the Mendhar sector of Poonch district have begun relocating families from Kalaban village after continuous landslides and land subsidence rendered the area unsafe. Around 700 people have been affected, while nearly 95 residential structures developed cracks following days of heavy rainfall. Officials said the administration has declared the village unsafe, and residents have been advised to evacuate temporarily. Those affect ...Read More >
Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 13 (ANI): Authorities in the Mendhar sector of Poonch district have begun relocating families from Kalaban village after continuous landslides and land subsidence rendered the area unsafe. Around 700 people have been affected, while nearly 95 residential structures developed cracks following days of heavy rainfall. Officials said the administration has declared the village unsafe, and residents have been advised to evacuate temporarily. Those affect ...Read More >
Observing that the situation in Himachal Pradesh has gone from bad to worse, the apex court said climate change is having a "visible and alarming impact" on the state. "We want to impress upon the state government and Union of India that earning revenue is not everything. Revenue cannot be earned at the cost of environment and ecology," a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said. "If things proceed the way they are as on date, the day is not far when the entire state of HP may vani ...Read More >
New Delhi: Reminding Centre and the states that earning revenue should not be prioritised over the ecology and environment, Supreme Court has expressed deep concern over uncontrolled constructions and inflow of tourists in Himachal Pradesh, saying the day is not far when the Himalayan state may vanish from the map of the country if remedial action is not taken on time. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadev said that in recent years, the state witnessed many natural disasters, and it is ...Read More >
Kohima, July 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) At least three people, including a woman, died due to electrocution, flight operations were suspended, and vehicular movement was disrupted due to the floods triggered by incessant rains in Nagaland, officials said on Monday. A Disaster Management official said that three persons were electrocuted to death in their homes in Dimapur, where chest-deep flood waters entered residential areas. He said that an unfortunate incident of electrocution claimed three lives, ...Read More >
Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) [India], July 3 (ANI): Border Road Organisation (BRO) on Thursday worked to clear the land subsidence near Bhatwari on Gangotri Highway in Uttarakhand, stated Uttarkashi Police. In a post on social media X, the police wrote that efforts were also being made to clear the subsidence on the Yamunotri highway near Silai Band, Ojri and Banas. Also Read | Kolkata Fatafat Result Today: Kolkata FF Result for July 03, 2025 Declared, Check Winning Numbers and Result Chart of Sat ...Read More >
Dhanbad: The revised Jharia Master Plan approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs and chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday has generated new hopes among the affected population in the Dhanbad coal belt. Underground fires have been burning in Jharia belt for almost 100 years. Thousands of people are living above these underground fires. These fires have resulted in severe land degradation, subsidence, coal mine fires and other socio-environmental problems. The total ...Read More >
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