At least 10 people have died in flooding and landslides across Himalayan regions of India and Nepal following heavy rainfall on Thursday, according to local officials. The severe downpours have also left 2,400 tourists stranded in the northeastern (...)
Rescue operations have entered the third day after flash floods in India's north-eastern state of Sikkim left over 100 people missing, including 22 army personnel.
At least 19 people have died, officials said on Thursday night.
The massive floods (...)
Indian authorities are racing against time to rescue people after flash floods in the north-eastern state of Sikkim left 102 people missing, including 22 army personnel.
Fourteen people are known to have died after a cloudburst over a mountain lake (...)
Decades after farmers on India's plains flocked to the "Green Revolution", reliant on chemical fertiliser to drive agricultural growth, the northeast Himalayan state of Sikkim is trying its luck with organic farming - a pull for young, green-minded (...)
The government of Sikkim in India›s northeast is lowering the risk of a devastating flood by draining water from a dangerously overfull glacial lake - with plans to turn the excess water into towers of ice for farmers to use in the warmer (...)
Helicopters airdropped emergency supplies Tuesday to Himalayan villages worst-hit by a quake that killed at least 81 people in India, Nepal and Sikkim, while earthmovers pushed through debris clogging precipitous valleys.
The quake killed at least (...)
