Tag: Joshimath sinking
Joshimath sinking: Many Himalayan towns will suffer similar fate, warns environment expert
Joshimath is not the last sinking town and many Himalayan areas will suffer a similar fate in the years to come, Environmentalist Vimlendu Jha...
Joshimath: Govt prepares plans to save sinking town now declared landslide-subsidence zone
Joshimath, which falls on the way to Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib, has now been declared a landslide-subsidence zone. Meanwhile, locals are battling the winter...
Why is Joshimath sinking? Panel report warned in 1976 that village was built on ancient landslide
A committee appointed by government had predicted in its nearly 50-year-old report about the current crisis faced by the residents of Uttarakhand’s Joshimath village,...