The collapse of a 14.7-million cubic metre mass of rock, ice and sediment into the South Lhonak glacial lake was the trigger behind the devastating 2023 Sikkim flood that destroyed a hydropower dam on ...

Sikkim chief minister Prem Singh Tamang is known nationally as the only head of a state whose party virtually has an unopposed run in the legislative assembly. However, his landslide return to 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 ...

Fourteen months after a devastating glacier lake outburst flood in Sikkim washed away the Teesta ... The water conductor system is mostly unaffected in the flash flood, hence, other than the ...

An expert panel from the environment ministry has conditionally approved the amendment of the green clearance for Sikkim's 1,200 ... its destruction by flash floods linked to a glacial lake ...

the Sikkim Urja Limited has reportedly proposed to build a new 118.66-m-tall concrete gravity dam in place of 60-m-tall rockfill concrete faced dam, washed away by the flash flood water from the ...