A Familiar Road To Disaster

A year since the flash floods laid waste to the region, Devbhoomi is still struggling with the aftershocks, reports Akash Bisht from Kedarnath. It’s been a year since deadly flash floods struck the temple town of Kedarnath Valley in Uttarakhand and claimed thousands of lives and destroyed everything in their path. The locals are yet to recover from the tragedy that claimed their loved ones, and annihilated their only source of livelihood -- tourism. For the locals, this has been a year of ...

Deoli Bhanigram: The wounds are too deep to heal even a year after this ill-fated hamlet in Kedar valley came to be known as the "village of widows", having lost 57 of its men to the catastrophic deluge that ravaged vast swathes of Uttarakhand but a ...

e is one deity with which Uttarakhand is most strongly identified with, it is no other than Lord Shiva. And in the monsoon (Saawan) season, this becomes especially evident. Thousands of Shiva devotees can be seen in the hill region, offering worship ...

01:16 pm Kendrapara (Odisha): Around 65 nesting sites of estuarine crocodiles have been spotted in Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha's Kendrapara district and the number is likely to increase as the counting process was still on, officials said. ...

PATNA: Around 7,000 persons have been detained in the city on the charges of sexual harassment during the last six months. Water resources development minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, while replying to a question of BJP member Nawal Kishore Yadav in ...

I have always hated filling up forms. Immigration forms head the lot. I cannot remember my passport number, and ferret the blue book from a bag choking with essentials. All this while, lady tourists from Malaysia jostle and crowd my right shoulder ...

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Continuing on the path of creating political awareness in Haryana, former Union Minister Venod Sharma addressed a public meeting in Sonipat on 28th May 2014. He spoke at length on many issues being faced by the common public of Haryana. He raised ...

MUMBAI: Shivanand Mankekar, a self-effacing Mumbai professor known for his big stock market bets, is actively buying into Future Group founder Kishore Biyani's comeback story. He has mopped up an almost 3% stake in Future Retail and roughly 1% in ...