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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…
- India
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…
- Telangana
Sikkim floods: Body of Army jawan from Nizamabad found
Hyderabad: Amid a massive search operation conducted by the Army and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) in flood-hit Sikkim, the body of Army jawan, a native of Kummanpally village of Nizamabad district,…
- India
Shah approves release of Rs 44.8 Cr to Sikkim to provide relief to flood-hit people
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has approved the release of Rs 44.8 crore as an advance amount from the central share of the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to Sikkim…
- India
Sikkim: Atleast 22 dead, 103 missing as flash food cause destruction
Gangtok: Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang, better known as PS Golay, on Friday said that the Himalayan state has incurred damages worth thousands of crores of rupees in the flash flood.…
- India
Sikkim cloudburst: Toll rises to 14, 102 still missing
Gangtok: Fourteen bodies have been found so far while 102 people, including 22 Army personnel, remained missing after a cloudburst over Lhonak Lake in North Sikkim triggered a flash flood in the Teesta…
- India
Rahul condoles deaths in Sikkim flash floods, asks party cadres to aid relief efforts
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday mourned the loss of lives in Sikkim flash floods and urged the party workers to cooperate with the administration in the relief works. In…
- India
‘Many of us left just with our suitcases’: Tales of people affected by flooded Teesta
New Jalpaiguri: Mishti Haldar, 28, woke up on Wednesday morning to find that the Teesta was flowing almost within touching distance from her porch at Matigara near Siliguri. The fast-flowing river, which…
- India
Centre should declare Sikkim, Himachal tragedies as national disasters: Kharge
New Delhi: While condoling the loss of lives in the Sikkim cloudburst and subsequent flash floods, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday said that such tragedies, also including the recent rain-related calamities…
- India
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…
- India
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…
- India
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…