Joshimath—perched on a hill at an altitude of 6,150 feet—is a gateway of sorts. Earlier, during the summer months, pilgrims going for the Char Dham Yatra or to Hemkund Sahib, families visiting tourist ...

The Joshimath Bachao Sangharsh Samiti called for treatment plans for Joshimath, a subsidence-hit town, to be based on ...

Every evening, Bhagwati Prasad Kaparwan, 72, and Shyama Devi Kaparwan, 67, leave their rented house and walk down to their “home". It’s down the mountain in a “danger zone” in Joshimath, Uttarakhand.

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Joshimath was hit by landslide and ground subsidence earlier this year. The Centre on Thursday approved a Rs 1658.17 crore recovery and reconstruction plan for Joshimath in Uttarakhand which was ...

With monsoon rains around the corner, locals as well as experts have expressed apprehensions of further geological instability in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath, where 868 structures have developed cracks ...

Chamoli district administration in Joshimath town in Uttarakhand began sealing the unsafe buildings that have developed cracks after the distribution of the compensation to the affected families, ...

On a sunny February afternoon, Motiram Joshi, 65, is patiently waiting for people to visit his general store in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath town. However, since last year, the tourist inflow has ...

For years, residents in the northern Indian city of Joshimath have complained to local officials that their homes are sinking. Now authorities are being forced to take action, evacuating nearly 100 ...

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand’s Joshimath town, where buildings developed cracks due to land subsidence early last year, is facing threats as monsoon is set to arrive. The fissures that emerged on the ground ...

Joshimath, India – It was 3.40am on January 3 when Digambar Singh Bisht woke up hearing a loud rumble. “It felt like the ground beneath us would crack open,” he told Al Jazeera. The house shook and ...

A ground survey by a committee of three experts from state-run Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University has revealed that “Joshimath has cracks as long as half-a-km and 2-feet wide”. It is for the first ...