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Rescue workers at Devbhoomi College in Premnagar after reports of students stranded in the floods.

Four dead, 8 missing after heavy rains lash Uttarakhand; Dehradun worst hit

Rajesh Dobriyal

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400% increase in lightning strikes across India: New climate threat emerges

DTE Staff

2 hours ago

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Western Himalaya at point of no return?

DTE Staff

7 hours ago

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Four dead, 8 missing after heavy rains lash Uttarakhand; Dehradun worst hit

Rajesh Dobriyal

1 hour ago

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Western Himalaya at point of no return?

DTE Staff

7 hours ago

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From June 1 to September 5, 2025, rainfall in Uttarakhand was 24 per cent in excess. Most of the rain occurred in a short period, leading to flash floods and landslides

Melted like wax

Akshit Sangomla

7 hours ago

3 min read

Indi Devi, a resident of Degadari Chogagutu village in Ranchi district, Jharkhand, lost her 52-year-old husband to a lightning strike in August 2025. The state has recorded 214 deaths due to lightning so far this year

Clouds of Crisis

Kiran Pandey

15 Sep 2025

4 min read

People in Sajada village of Amritsar unload cattle feed from a truck to distribute to farmers. With the August floods having washed away fodder crops, farmers sought supplies from other villages

Plan or perish

Mandeep Punia

15 Sep 2025

3 min read

‘Grey rhino’ in the Western Ghats: Kerala ignored warnings before Wayanad’s deadly landslide, says new report

K A Shaji

13 Sep 2025

4 min read

Why does Punjab flood? It is not just nature; serious mismanagement is also to blame

Raju Sajwan

09 Sep 2025

4 min read

Punjab Floods 2025: Flood-affected farmers to get compensation of Rs 20,000 per acre; can sell soil and silt deposited in their fields

Vivek Mishra

08 Sep 2025

2 min read

As lightning strikes rise in Jharkhand, its poor and marginalised tribal communities are most at risk

Niraj Sinha

08 Sep 2025

6 min read

Punjab Floods 2025: Were state and central agencies on the same page regarding information exchange and disaster response?

Vivek Mishra

08 Sep 2025

5 min read

Punjab Floods 2025: How a lack of culverts on highways and decisions on dam water release worsened the disaster

Punjab Floods 2025: How a lack of culverts on highways and ill-timed decisions on dam water release worsened the disaster

Bhagirath

08 Sep 2025

5 min read

Punjab Floods 2025 Ground Report: The government may be missing from the scene, but people have stepped in to fill to void

Mandeep Punia

07 Sep 2025

7 min read

There is no end to preparing for extreme weather events in the Himalayas: Sonam Lotus

Rajat Ghai

27 Aug 2025

2 min read

‘The government has invited these Himalayan disasters’

Rajat Ghai

18 Aug 2025

5 min read

Myanmar’s current socio-political turmoil may result in delay of aid for quake affected victims; inequality and discrimination may aggravate situation: Surya Parkash

Rajat Ghai

31 Mar 2025

2 min read

The Sagaing Fault triggered the March 28 Myanmar quake as it had accumulated a lot of energy: O P Mishra

Rajat Ghai

29 Mar 2025

3 min read

Too much fossil fuel usage, irresponsible development models has resulted in topsoil erosion in Western Ghats: Kalkuli Vittal Hegde

Too much fossil fuel usage, irresponsible development models have resulted in topsoil erosion in Western Ghats: Kalkuli Vittal Hegde

M Raghuram

31 Aug 2024

4 min read

In Wayanad, three search and rescue Labrador dogs of the Indian Army named Jaki, Dixie and Sara are helping in rescue efforts.

Similar to other disasters, landslides will result in trauma for impacted individuals: Nader Naderpajouh

Rajat Ghai

02 Aug 2024

3 min read

A striking trend

Sanjay Srivastava

12 Sep 2025

3 min read

These seven questions need to be asked in the aftermath of the 2025 Punjab Floods

Harinder Happy

12 Sep 2025

6 min read

The recent floods in Punjab are proof that its youth are neither ‘idle’ nor ‘reckless’

Gian Singh

11 Sep 2025

6 min read

The 2025 Punjab floods are a sum total of extreme rain, weak embankments, floodplain encroachment and obstruction of natural drainage

Sucha Singh

06 Sep 2025

5 min read

Mismanagement of three major dams — Bhakra, Pong and Ranjit Sagar — worsened the 2025 Punjab Floods

Himanshu Thakkar

05 Sep 2025

8 min read

There is a legal flaw at the root of the Punjab floods

Amandeep Sandhu

05 Sep 2025

3 min read

Punjab is a land of rivers. But the floods of this year are not purely natural events

Gurinder Kaur

05 Sep 2025

5 min read

Why was the Afghanistan earthquake so deadly? A disaster resilience expert explains

Iftekhar Ahmed

02 Sep 2025

3 min read

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Four dead, 8 missing after heavy rains lash Uttarakhand; Dehradun worst hit

400% increase in lightning strikes across India: New climate threat emerges

Western Himalaya at point of no return?

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Four dead, 8 missing after heavy rains lash Uttarakhand; Dehradun worst hit

Western Himalaya at point of no return?

Melted like wax

Clouds of Crisis

Plan or perish

‘Grey rhino’ in the Western Ghats: Kerala ignored warnings before Wayanad’s deadly landslide, says new report

Why does Punjab flood? It is not just nature; serious mismanagement is also to blame

Punjab Floods 2025: Flood-affected farmers to get compensation of Rs 20,000 per acre; can sell soil and silt deposited in their fields

As lightning strikes rise in Jharkhand, its poor and marginalised tribal communities are most at risk

Punjab Floods 2025: Were state and central agencies on the same page regarding information exchange and disaster response?

Punjab Floods 2025: How a lack of culverts on highways and ill-timed decisions on dam water release worsened the disaster

Punjab Floods 2025 Ground Report: The government may be missing from the scene, but people have stepped in to fill to void

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There is no end to preparing for extreme weather events in the Himalayas: Sonam Lotus

‘The government has invited these Himalayan disasters’

Myanmar’s current socio-political turmoil may result in delay of aid for quake affected victims; inequality and discrimination may aggravate situation: Surya Parkash

The Sagaing Fault triggered the March 28 Myanmar quake as it had accumulated a lot of energy: O P Mishra

Too much fossil fuel usage, irresponsible development models have resulted in topsoil erosion in Western Ghats: Kalkuli Vittal Hegde

Similar to other disasters, landslides will result in trauma for impacted individuals: Nader Naderpajouh

Blogs

A striking trend

These seven questions need to be asked in the aftermath of the 2025 Punjab Floods

The recent floods in Punjab are proof that its youth are neither ‘idle’ nor ‘reckless’

The 2025 Punjab floods are a sum total of extreme rain, weak embankments, floodplain encroachment and obstruction of natural drainage

Mismanagement of three major dams — Bhakra, Pong and Ranjit Sagar — worsened the 2025 Punjab Floods

There is a legal flaw at the root of the Punjab floods

Punjab is a land of rivers. But the floods of this year are not purely natural events

Why was the Afghanistan earthquake so deadly? A disaster resilience expert explains