India observes heightened security in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of Independence Day. Lok Sabha Speaker forms committee to investigate allegat...

A government panel has cautioned that unscientific mining in Uttarakhand's Bageshwar district is destabilizing slopes, endangering villages...

A government warning highlights the vulnerability of over 100 dams in six Himalayan states to flash floods caused by glacial lake outbursts...

A rare geological process is tearing the Indian Plate apart deep beneath the surface, scientists have discovered. In a study published by t...

A series of devastating earthquakes across Asia—including a deadly 7.7-magnitude quake in Myanmar—has reignited urgent warnings about the l...

Japan has warned about a potential megaquake along the Nankai Trough. Experts say a similar or even more severe earthquake is overdue in th...

“There has been a collision between Indian and Eurasian plates going on underground for a long time which has accumulated tremendous energy...

As Sikkim picks up the pieces following flash floods that saw many thousands being displaced, major infrastructure projects destroyed and s...

Construction of hydropower projects in the fragile Himalayan region is leading to disasters, according to environmental experts and activis...

Early warning sensors were installed in 2013, 2016 and even last month at the critical glacial lakes in Sikkim but none survived long enoug...

Buddhist texts such as the Nidanakatha, Buddhacarita and Mahavastu narrate moving accounts of the Buddha's return to Kapilavastu and his me...

Yes, according to a top disaster official, who adds that a major earthquake "is long overdue in the central seismic gap of the Himalayan fr...

Though the Riasi fault is not very prominent on maps, they are based on the history of seismic activity rather than the potential for futur...

State-owned IOC is using alternative entry points to Nepal from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal to reach 32-35 % of Nepal's daily requ...

The home ministry has specified new standard operating procedures or SOPs to monitor the dams, which are also created mainly due to earthqu...

Quake halts supply of Nepalese tea, which was till now spuriously sold as premium Darjeeling tea; Indian variety sees 15-20% price rise

The Uttarakhand government, which has been demanding that the projects be given the goahead, demanded the state be part of the expert commi...