Ladakh Floods

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Friday flagged off three Indian Red Cross trucks carrying flood and cold relief supplies and medicines for the people of Jammu, Srinagar, Ladakh and Uttarakhand.

A bridge and standing crops were damaged on Sunday in flash floods in several villages in Ladakh, where authorities sounded an alert after an outburst of an artificial lake resulted in blockage of the Zanskar river, officials said.

Flash floods in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh killed at least 17 people, damaged several houses and a mini hydro-power plant while many north Indian states received widespread rainfall on Wednesday.

An unprecedented rainfall, multiple avalanches and an unusual April snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir have triggered fears of a repeat of the 2014 floods that caused death and devastation in the Valley. In what could be a relief, the Jhelum waters have started receding, easing fears of a flood. However, the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remains close...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today issued directions to the Ladakh Affairs Department as well as district administration Leh to immediately carry out assessment of damages caused due to flash floods.

The Srinagar-Leh National Highway connecting Ladakh with Kashmir Valley was reopened for traffic today after remaining closed for seven days due to heavy rains, boosting connectivity to the flood-hit region awaiting crucial supplies.

Almost a decade ago, Suneet Sohal, then a Major in the Army, was flying me on a tiny Cheetah helicopter from Partapur, a Brigade Headquarters in North Ladakh, to the Army's Siachen base camp, the hub of all operations along the Siachen glacier. We were flying low over a valley above the Nubra river alongside the mighty Saltoro range dominated by s...

After living in tents for over three months, the Ladakh flood victims have started shifting to the new houses, but construction work is not complete just yet and most people are still forced to live in the tents out in the open in the bitter winter cold.There are nearly 160 families from Choglamsar region who have decided to shift into their new ho...

Seems like there is no end to distress for the children who lost everything during the Ladakh flash floods. It was just a week ago when an NGO, Youth movement for peace, had claimed it adopted 28 children and would take care of them.  Now, the Police say they were kidnapped by the NGO and brought to Jammu."Five people have been arrested and th...

The devastating cloud burst killed more than 200 people and orphaned scores of children in Ladakh. Now, for the first time, a Jammu based NGO, Youth Movement for Peace, has adopted 27 of these orphaned children who will get free education and a place to stay in Jammu."I want to become a doctor, it was my desire to get education, I want to make a ma...

Bulat Kumar is still haunted by the trauma of the night when Leh was hit by a flash flood caused by a cloudburst. A labourer from Bihar, he was asleep in his tent with nine relatives when the floods hit Leh.All of them were washed away; he's the only one who survived and doesn't know if his family in a Bihar village even knows about the tragedy."We...

Frantic rescue efforts are underway in Leh and parts of Ladakh after Friday's devastating cloudburst that flattened villages and snapped power and communication links. According to the latest estimates over 150 people are now dead. (Watch: This labourer lost nine relatives) Although many families reported missing after water swept through their vil...

Around 400 people are still missing in Leh, the high altitude capital of Ladakh. Among those missing are 31 jawans of the Indo-Tibetan border police whose camp was washed away in flash floods following Friday's cloud burst in the area. The picturesque landscape of Ladakh has been completely destroyed. Fortunately, the Air Force has managed to compl...

A cloudburst is a sudden downpour within a radius of few kilometres. It usually lasts no longer than few minutes but is capable of flooding the area.Rainfall from a cloudburst is usually over 100 mm per hour.Cloudbursts descend from very high clouds, sometimes with tops above 15 kilometers. Rapid precipitation is possible due to large droplets grow...

The flash floods, caused by a cloudburst have transformed the picturesque landscape of Leh into a virtual disaster zone with buildings, houses and schools completely destroyed.The scene in Choglamsar village on the outskirts of Leh town - flattened houses and buried vehicles - looks like it's straight out of a disaster movie. But on this road leadi...

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Friday flagged off three Indian Red Cross trucks carrying flood and cold relief supplies and medicines for the people of Jammu, Srinagar, Ladakh and Uttarakhand.

A bridge and standing crops were damaged on Sunday in flash floods in several villages in Ladakh, where authorities sounded an alert after an outburst of an artificial lake resulted in blockage of the Zanskar river, officials said.

Flash floods in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh killed at least 17 people, damaged several houses and a mini hydro-power plant while many north Indian states received widespread rainfall on Wednesday.

An unprecedented rainfall, multiple avalanches and an unusual April snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir have triggered fears of a repeat of the 2014 floods that caused death and devastation in the Valley. In what could be a relief, the Jhelum waters have started receding, easing fears of a flood. However, the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remains close...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today issued directions to the Ladakh Affairs Department as well as district administration Leh to immediately carry out assessment of damages caused due to flash floods.

The Srinagar-Leh National Highway connecting Ladakh with Kashmir Valley was reopened for traffic today after remaining closed for seven days due to heavy rains, boosting connectivity to the flood-hit region awaiting crucial supplies.

Almost a decade ago, Suneet Sohal, then a Major in the Army, was flying me on a tiny Cheetah helicopter from Partapur, a Brigade Headquarters in North Ladakh, to the Army's Siachen base camp, the hub of all operations along the Siachen glacier. We were flying low over a valley above the Nubra river alongside the mighty Saltoro range dominated by s...

After living in tents for over three months, the Ladakh flood victims have started shifting to the new houses, but construction work is not complete just yet and most people are still forced to live in the tents out in the open in the bitter winter cold.There are nearly 160 families from Choglamsar region who have decided to shift into their new ho...

Seems like there is no end to distress for the children who lost everything during the Ladakh flash floods. It was just a week ago when an NGO, Youth movement for peace, had claimed it adopted 28 children and would take care of them.  Now, the Police say they were kidnapped by the NGO and brought to Jammu."Five people have been arrested and th...

The devastating cloud burst killed more than 200 people and orphaned scores of children in Ladakh. Now, for the first time, a Jammu based NGO, Youth Movement for Peace, has adopted 27 of these orphaned children who will get free education and a place to stay in Jammu."I want to become a doctor, it was my desire to get education, I want to make a ma...

Bulat Kumar is still haunted by the trauma of the night when Leh was hit by a flash flood caused by a cloudburst. A labourer from Bihar, he was asleep in his tent with nine relatives when the floods hit Leh.All of them were washed away; he's the only one who survived and doesn't know if his family in a Bihar village even knows about the tragedy."We...

Frantic rescue efforts are underway in Leh and parts of Ladakh after Friday's devastating cloudburst that flattened villages and snapped power and communication links. According to the latest estimates over 150 people are now dead. (Watch: This labourer lost nine relatives) Although many families reported missing after water swept through their vil...

Around 400 people are still missing in Leh, the high altitude capital of Ladakh. Among those missing are 31 jawans of the Indo-Tibetan border police whose camp was washed away in flash floods following Friday's cloud burst in the area. The picturesque landscape of Ladakh has been completely destroyed. Fortunately, the Air Force has managed to compl...

A cloudburst is a sudden downpour within a radius of few kilometres. It usually lasts no longer than few minutes but is capable of flooding the area.Rainfall from a cloudburst is usually over 100 mm per hour.Cloudbursts descend from very high clouds, sometimes with tops above 15 kilometers. Rapid precipitation is possible due to large droplets grow...

The flash floods, caused by a cloudburst have transformed the picturesque landscape of Leh into a virtual disaster zone with buildings, houses and schools completely destroyed.The scene in Choglamsar village on the outskirts of Leh town - flattened houses and buried vehicles - looks like it's straight out of a disaster movie. But on this road leadi...