Expert committee recommends reconstructing Teesta-3 dam in Sikkim with stronger concrete structure and improved early warning ...

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 ...

Three days after the BJP Sikkim unit wrote to PM Narendra Modi expressing its concerns over the recent nod given by a central ...

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 GLOF in Sikkim underscores climate crisis impacts ... will help the dam withstand the worst kind of flash flood. The design also enhances the dam spillway capacity from 7,000 cumecs to ...

Sikkim Urja Limited ... “The water conductor system is mostly unaffected in the (2023) flash flood, hence, other than the dam most of the components can be restored in a year’s time.

After years of delays and uncertainty, the long-awaited Teesta River project has finally resumed its initial work, bringing renewed hope to communities along its banks. The project, if implemented, ...

Researchers have now pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood in a bid to better prepare for future catastrophic events. Listen to Story A vehicle that got washed away lies atop a ...

The Sikkim BJP on Tuesday, 28 January ... state BJP spokesperson Passing Sherpa said in a statement. He was referring to the flash floods in the Teesta River which had claimed more than 40 lives, ...

The Sikkim chief minister apprised the Finance Commission team about the devastating flash floods triggered by the Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in North Sikkim in October 2023 which had caused ...