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Sikkim flood: Part of NH-10 restored for 4-wheeler movement
Gangtok: Over two weeks after parts of Sikkim were devastated by a flash flood, the authorities have opened the damaged National Highway 10 for one-way movement for four-wheelers, according to a government…
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CM announces housing schemes for those who lost homes in Sikkim flash flood
Gangtok: Sikkim Chief Minister PS Tamang on Monday announced two housing schemes for those who lost their homes in the flash flood that ravaged the northern part of the Himalayan state. The…
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Flash flood: Sikkim CS seeks relief, restoration reports from collectors of affected dist
Gangtok: Sikkim Chief Secretary V B Pathak on Saturday sought ground reports on relief and restoration work from collectors of four districts worst affected by the recent flash flood in the Himalayan…
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409 more people evacuated from flood-hit North Sikkim
Gangtok: The Indian Air Force on Friday evacuated 409 tourists and local people from flash flood-affected areas in North Sikkim, officials said. They said that 18 Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and two…
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Toll rises to 33 in Sikkim flash flood, search on for those still missing
Gangtok: Thirty-three bodies, including those of nine Armymen, have been recovered so far from the slush and debris of the flash flood in Teesta river that devastated Sikkim, while the search continued…
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Sikkim flash flood death toll rises to 27, search operations continue for 141 people missing
Gangtok: The toll in the flash flood in Sikkim rose to 27 on Saturday even as search operations continued for the 141 people who are still missing, an official report said. Twenty-seven…
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Sikkim deluge: Army weapons, equipment swept away in Teesta River
Guwahati: The deluge in Sikkim led to a large amount of military equipment, including weapons and explosives, being carried away in the Teesta River, defence officials said on Friday, urging people to…
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14 dead, 102 missing, 3K tourists stranded in Sikkim flash flood
The Sikkim Government on Wednesday confirmed that 14 people have died so far in the flash floods that occurred in Sikkim in the early hours of Wednesday. The 14 deceased are all…
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10 dead, 22 army men among 82 missing as flash flood wreaks havoc in Sikkim
Gangtok: At least ten people died and 80 others, including 22 army personnel, went missing on Wednesday after a cloudburst over Lhonak Lake in north Sikkim triggered a flash flood in the…
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ISRO conducts satellite image-based studies of South Lhonak lake in Sikkim
Bengaluru: The National Remote Sensing Centre, one of the ISRO centres, has conducted a satellite-based study on the outburst of the South Lhonak lake in Sikkim by obtaining temporal satellite images (before…
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