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Four hydropower plants Rasuwagadi, Trisuli III, Trisuli and Benighat have sustained damage, taking out 200MW of Nepal’s power supply – approximately 8% of the total. Over 100 cargo trucks parked on ...
Subba highlighted the ongoing crisis faced by residents and tourism stakeholders in North Sikkim due to recent natural calamities, such as the Glacier Lake Outburst Flood of October 2023 and June's ...
Sikkim's lone Lok Sabha MP Indra Hang Subba on Monday met Sanjay Kumar Jha, chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism, and Culture, and submitted a representation ...
Governor of Sikkim, Om Prakash Mathur, paid an important visit to the Teesta Stage V Power Station located at Balutar in Singtam today.
As climate change threatens the Himalayas, Switzerland brings its Alpine disaster prevention expertise to India.
Sikkim celebrates 50 years with a vision to be India’s top green destination by 2047, led by Chief Economic Advisor Prof Mahendra P. Lama.
As Sikkim marks 50 years of its merger with India, Professor Mahendra P. Lama, Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of Sikkim and Senior Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, has laid out a ...
Relentless rains ravage Assam, Arunachal and Mizoram. As floods intensify, dams crumble and governance collapses. A climate catastrophe is unfolding in India’s north-east.
The flood on the intervening night of October 3 and 4, 2023, on the Teesta river had been triggered by a glacial outburst of the South Lonark lake in north Sikkim. Many houses on the Bengal side of ...
In October last year, when a breach in the South Lhonak glacial lake in Sikkim swept away a hydropower project on the river Teesta, the effects were felt downstream in West Bengal’s Kalimpong ...
Teesta river File picture Bengal irrigation minister Partha Bhowmik on Tuesday said the Teesta had changed its course at eight locations in the state following the glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) ...
In October, devastating flash floods struck Sikkim which severely affected a village, as depicted in recent satellite imagery. The Teesta river overflowed, submerging a significant part of the ...