Shimla | A massive landslide occurred at Kamrau in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, blocking National Highway 707 near Barwas, on Friday owing to heavy rainfall in the region. However, no loss of life was reported. The video of virtually the entire mountain going downhill was shared by the State Disaster Management Authority. The Paonta Sahib-Shillai highway […]
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Three killed as heavy rains lash Uttarakhand
Dehradun: Three people were killed as monsoon rains on Monday continued to lash Uttarakhand with full ferocity, blocking highways and triggering landslides at number of places. The Met Department has issued warning of heavy rains at number of places in various districts in the next 24 hours. Three persons, including two youths, were killed when […]
Jammu-Srinagar highway closed due to landslides
Jammu : The strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway was closed for traffic on Saturday due to landslides, police said. The landslides hit the highway in Ramsu area of Ramban district. “Clearing operations have begun. Scores of vehicles are currently stranded,” officials said. The highway is the lifeline of supplies for the landlocked Kashmir Valley. This is also […]
Rains trigger landslides in north Kerala, no damage reported
Idukki/Malappuram/Kozhikode/Wayanad : Landslides caused by rains in northern districts of Kerala like Malappuram and Kozhikode on Monday gave some anxious moments, but there was no loss of life or property since these occurred in uninhabited areas. In Kozhikode, heavy rain resulted in small landslides in the hilly areas at Thiruvambady while a partially damaged bridge […]
Heavy rains in Himachal trigger landslides, snap road links
Shimla : Heavy rains continued in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday with hundreds stranded across the state due to landslides and snapped road links. The government has ordered closure of all primary and senior secondary in Kangra district for three days. The district has been experiencing heavy rains for the past three days. There were reports […]
11 feared killed in Manipur landslides, flooded river
Imphal : At least 11 persons, including six children, were feared dead in landslides as well as a swollen river in Manipur, State Disaster Management Authority Vice Chairman Adim Panmei said on Wednesday. He said that at least seven persons, including three girls and two boys, were killed when three landslides hit a village in […]
Landslides hit rail traffic on Kalka-Shimla track
Shimla : Rail traffic on the Kalka-Shimla track — a world heritage site — was disrupted on Wednesday in Himachal Pradesh owing to landslides following rainfall, an official here said. Nobody was injured. “Traffic on the rail line would be normalised soon. Work on clearing the muck and huge boulders that has completely blocked the […]
Landslides halt train services in Assam hill section
Guwahati : Train services to Assam’s Barak Valley, Mizoram and Tripura remained cut off on Friday due to fresh landslides in the Lumding-Badarpur hill section of Assam even as the Northeast Frontier Railway cancelled several trains. NF Railway Chief Public Relation Officer P.J. Sharma said while the railway workers had completed restoration work at five […]
Torrential rains trigger landslides, flash floods in Manipur, Mizoram
Imphal : Torrential rains in the fast few days have triggered landslides and flash floods in some parts of Mizoram and Manipur, throwing normal life out of gear, official reports said on Tuesday. The situation in Mizoram is causing concern since there were house collapses and deaths in the recent past, while in Manipur too, […]
Srinagar-Jammu highway closed due to landslides
Jammu : Fresh landslides in Udhampur and Ramban districts forced the closure of the Srinagar-Jammu highway for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. A Traffic Department official said no traffic would be allowed on the highway following the landslides that occurred on Kheri road in Udhampur and at the Anokhi Fall stretch in Ramban. “Landslide […]