JOSHIMATH SINKING

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In view of the land subsidence incident in Uttarakhand's Joshimath, the State Cabinet on Friday approved an amount of Rs 45 crore as relief funds for the affected families. The Cabinet also cleared a proposal to waive the electricity bill of all tho...

Speaking on Joshimath land subsidence, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on January 13 said that around 90 families from Joshimath have been shifted and Rs 1.5 lakh ex-gratia are being given. “We have shifted 90 families from Joshimath ...

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami visited the subsidence-hit Joshimath town on Wednesday and announced an interim assistance for the affected people even as protests by locals, who are demanding compensation on the lines of Badrinath, s...

Amid the panic of land subsidence in Joshimath, fresh cracks appeared in houses and buildings of another town in Uttarakhand. Many houses and buildings of Chamba in the Tehri district have developed major cracks. The residents of Chamba are staying ...

Amid reports that two hotels damaged by the landslide and subsidence in the Joshimath area are likely to be dismantled, the owner of one of the hotels sat in protest with his family on Wednesday demanding compensation. Speaking to ANI, Thakur Singh ...

Joshimath's land subsidence has caused the Badrinath National Highway, which runs through Joshimath, to develop cracks that are one to three metres long. The residents are now afraid because of these cracks in the highway.Watch: Fresh cracks appears...

According to the Chamoli District Disaster Management Authority, 603 buildings in Joshimath town have developed cracks so far. A total of 68 families have been 'temporarily' displaced, officials said. In the Joshimath city area, 229 rooms have been ...