flash floods Archives

August 8, 2025 12:04 PM

Uttarakhand: Army leads relief ops in Dharali; over 350 civilians rescued

The Indian Army, in close coordination with the Indian Air Force, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Border Roads Organisation (BRO), and the civil administration, continu...

August 8, 2025 10:06 AM

Uttarakhand cloudburst: 10 Gujarat pilgrims rescued by army, reunited with families

Ten pilgrims from Banaskantha district in Gujarat, who were stranded near Dharali in Uttarakhand following a devastating cloudburst, have been successfully rescued by the Indian Army. The pilgrims - all residents of Chichodra village in Bhabhar talu...

July 23, 2025 11:12 AM

Rains, floods and rising heat: South Asia’s growing climate crisis

People in India and neighboring countries eagerly await the monsoon rains, which signal the end of the scorching summer heat and bring much-needed water for crops that sustain crores of people. However, the increasing frequency, intensity, unpredicta...

July 9, 2025 4:36 PM

Are flash floods directly linked to climate change?

The catastrophic flash floods in Texas a couple of days earlier, triggered by extremely heavy rainfall, which caused over 100 deaths and widespread destruction, have once again raised a pressing question- are flash floods directly linked to climate c...

July 9, 2025 2:27 PM

Flash floods in New Mexico resort town kills three, traps dozens in homes and vehicles

Torrential rains triggered flash floods in New Mexico that killed at least three people on Tuesday, including two young children, and trapped dozens in homes and vehicles in the resort village of Ruidoso, a state emergency official and a village stat...

July 3, 2025 11:18 AM

China’s north and west on alert after sweeping rains trigger deadly floods

China's north and west braced for flash floods and landslides on Thursday as annual 'Plum Rains' left a trail of destruction and prompted the mobilisation of thousands of rescue workers to pull people from floodwaters. Red alerts were issued tracing...

June 26, 2024 6:10 PM

Heavy rains in Nepal kill 20 in two days amid landslides, lightning strikes

Heavy rainfall triggered landslides and flash floods in Nepal, killing at least 11 people, with another nine killed by lightning strikes over the past two days, officials said on Wednesday. Landslides swept away three houses overnight in Lamjung dis...