In India, 23 soldiers have been missing after a powerful flash flood caused by intense rainfall tore through a valley in Sikkim state. In a statement, Indian Army said due to sudden cloud burst, a ...

Flash flooding has hit parts of northeastern India killing more than a dozen people. More than 100 are still missing including 22 soldiers. Heavy rain over Lhonak lake in the state of Sikkim ...

On October 4, 2023, a cloudburst led the South Lhonak lake, perched at 17,000 feet in the Lhonak Valley, to breach its banks, causing a catastrophic glacial flood ... 23. If adopted, Sikkim's ...

The Narendra Modi government at the Centre has sanctioned ₹550 crore for the damage to the infrastructure and other losses that Sikkim had borne during the devastating Glacial Lake Outburst Flood ...