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Post-Dharali, Centre to re-examine safety of Uttarkashi-Gangotri road

Exclusive: After Dharali disaster, experts’ red flag prompts Centre to revisit Gangotri highway safety under Char Dham Project

September 16, 2025 9:21 am

The letter was sent on August 12, a week after flash floods and landslides destroyed Dharali village near Harsil, on the Gangotri highway in Uttarkashi district.

Once a village, now ground zero for search operation: A day in Uttarkashi’s Dharali

August 12, 2025 10:39 am

On the seventh day of the operations, the district administration and the National Defence Response Force say one body has been recovered, while the State Disaster Management Authority puts the figure at two.

Uttarkashi disaster: What happens when sacred terrain becomes a product

August 11, 2025 12:18 pm

To speak of the Himalayas today is not to romanticise their fragility, but to acknowledge their refusal to be governed by haste. Development is urgently needed — but not in its current form

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For those who survived Uttarkashi flash floods, physical wounds are healing, mental scars not so much

August 10, 2025 7:02 am

At the hospital where some of the injured are, The Indian Express found doctors and families concerned about how they’re grappling with the shock and grief

Dharali disaster: the complex, uncertain relationship between extreme rain, landslides & flash floods

August 09, 2025 1:11 pm

Not all cloudburst-like events result in a flash flood or a disaster. And not all flash floods are triggered by an intense spell of rain. The Uttarkashi incident demonstrates the rising risk of disasters in ecologically fragile regions, and the increasing uncertainty around their occurrence. This makes the task of installing early warning systems and taking mitigation measures even more difficult.

How to reduce risks from glacial lake bursts and carry out effective rescue operations

August 08, 2025 1:11 pm

The Dharali flash flood in Uttarkashi could have been caused by a phenomenon known as GLOF. Five years ago, a document prepared by the NDMA had identified this risk in the Himalayas, and laid down detailed guidelines on ways to anticipate and deal with GLOF emergencies. Here’s what it said.

When residents of an Uttarkashi village saw death rolling down a mountain

August 08, 2025 10:40 am

Uttarkashi flash flood, Dharali village tragedy: The flash flood struck at a time when eight adjacent villages, including Dharali and Mukhba, were holding a religious festival

141 tourists from Gujarat stranded in Uttarkashi district, efforts on to bring them back: State government

August 07, 2025 10:23 pm

According to the official statement by the Gujarat government, owing to bad weather, it is not possible to airlift the tourists

What caused the Uttarkashi flash floods? Some theories

August 07, 2025 4:48 pm

One hypothesis is that a landslide had struck 2 kilometres uphill from Dharali earlier, which might have been reactivated

Uttarkashi clouburst, Uttarakhand floods, Glacier burst

In Uttarkashi, the cost of climate denial: When science is silenced, disasters speak

August 07, 2025 4:11 pm

As avalanches and floods devastate the Bhagirathi valley, it is time India confronts the deadly consequences of unsustainable development in the fragile Himalayas

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17-day ordeal ends with hugs and cheers as all 41 workers evacuated from Uttarakhand tunnel

November 28, 2023 10:10 pm

The rescue operation involved the use of heavy excavators, elaborate plans on several fronts, cooperative efforts by several organisations, and eventually manual drilling for over 21 hours by “rat-hole miners”.

Nine days on, 41 workers remain trapped under debris of Uttarkashi tunnel

November 20, 2023 9:00 pm

On day nine of the Uttarkashi tunnel collapse rescue operation, a six inch pipe was drilled through the rubble which the reached the trapped men. The pipe will be used with a modified tray which will carry food, mobile phones, and other essential commodities.

Amid multiple setbacks, Uttarkashi tunnel rescue operation hits 1-week mark

November 18, 2023 7:38 pm

It was around 5.30 am on Sunday that the under-construction tunnel on the Yamunotri National Highway, meant to connect Silkyara and Dandalgaon in Uttarkashi district, collapsed.