JOSHIMATH SINKING

​The around 70 village residents are forced to sleep in the open as they fear their houses may collapse. Moreover, their agricultural land has also been damaged due to fissures, the villagers said. "Cracks were noticed in the periphery of the villag...

The experts have recommended that Joshimath, a town in Uttarakhand, be declared a no-new construction zone due to its exceeding carrying capacity and poor construction design. Experts from various institutions, including the Central Building Researc...

For months, the roughly 20,000 residents in Joshimath, burrowed in the Himalayas and revered by Hindu and Sikh pilgrims, have watched the earth slowly swallow their community. They pleaded for help that never arrived, and in January their desperate ...

Now the septuagenarian spends half her day near her now-abandoned home which she misses regularly and other half at the sub-divisional office, hoping to receive some positive news about their permanent rehabilitation.

As many as 20 families were shifted to safer places after the Nayi Basti area in Thathri municipality of Doda District started sinking as a result of which dozens of houses develops cracks and had become unsafe.There was a fresh panic among the resi...

Nineteen families were evacuated after their homes developed cracks at a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district, officials said on Friday. The authorities also declared unsafe a mosque and a religious school for girls at Nai Basti village in T...

Demolition work continued in Joshimath, Uttarakhand on Jan 22. Notably, Joshimath has been declared a land subsidence zone by the authorities. More than 600 houses have been identified as unsafe and are being demolished.Joshimath land subsidence: De...

The demolition of the structures declared unsafe after being affected by land subsidence started again in Joshimath on January 21 after a gap due to heavy snowfall in the area. Joshimath sinking: Demolition work of affected buildings resume after he...

Snowfall and rain lashed subsidence-hit Joshimath on Friday, intensifying the cold and adding to the woes of people living in temporary relief camps. Apart from Joshimath located at around 6,000 feet, many famous locations in the higher altitudes of...

Joshimath, the gateway to famous pilgrimage sites like Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib and international skiing destination Auli, appears on the edge of a precipice with gaping cracks appearing on buildings, roads and public facilities. The state govern...

Joshimath, the gateway to famous pilgrimage sites like Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib and international skiing destination Auli, is facing a major challenge due to land subsidence. The petitioner has contended the subsidence has occurred due to large-s...

Several state-run institutions including ISRO have been directed by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Uttarakhand government not to interact with media or share information on social media on the Joshimath situation without p...

Slow subsidence up to 9 cm is recorded in Joshimath town over a period of seven months, between April and November 2022, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) satellite-based report. ISRO said, "Slow subsidence up to 9 cm within...

The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released satellite images of Joshimath and a preliminary report on land subsidence which shows that the entire town may sink.

Chamoli District Magistrate Himanshu Khurana on January 11 held a meeting with the people of Joshimath whose houses have been damaged due to land subsidence. Many families participated in the meeting. While talking to ANI after the meeting, District...

Joshimath Sinking News Live: As of now, 678 buildings marked have been marked 'unsafe'. Many have vacated their homes and the evacuation process is still underway. Eight teams of SDRF, one of NDRF, one extra company of PAC and police officials are p...

Two hotels in Joshimath, Chamoli, Uttarakhand have been identified as unsafe by the government. Experts have decided to demolish Hotel Malari Inn and Hotel Mount View after they were declared unsafe on January 10. Demolition of Hotel Malari Inn in J...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to examine a plea on January 16, seeking its intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand's Joshimath as a national disaster. A bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud declined to list the plea for urg...

Authorities at Joshimath said on Tuesday that they will start demolishing hotels and houses in the holy town, which developed cracks in the wake of the landslide and subsidence. Hotels Malari Inn and Mount View, which have developed more cracks, wil...