09:25 am, 06-Aug-2025
PM Modi spoke to CM Dhami on phone
09:06 AM, 06-Aug-2025
Carts stuck in debris
Amid heavy rains, an Innova train got stuck in the rubble ahead of Narendranagar Plasda outpost. The car was fired after being stuck for some time.
08:32 am, 06-Aug-2025
Barkot: Rain in Yamunotri Valley stirred up
The rain continues for the third consecutive day in the Yamunotri Valley, causing the water level of Yamuna and its tributaries to reach dangerous levels. The flow of debris and stones in the Yamuna River and Kupra Khad in Saina Chatti has made people sleep. The Yamunotri highway is closed due to debris and road sinking at many places, causing the movement to come to a complete standstill.
08:28 am, 06-Aug-2025
Road opening is difficult
The road is sunk near two places from Netala to Papadagad in Uttarkashi. On the Gangotri highway, there is erosion on the road between Netala and Maneri-Ongi. It is difficult to open the road in Papadgad today.
08:10 am, 06-Aug-2025
Disturbance from the Mediterranean Sea took a formidable form in Uttarkashi
The pattern of the disaster in Uttarkashi was similar to the procession in Kedarnath in the year 2013. The reason for both the incidents has been hit by the Western disturbance of the Himalayas, which arises from the Mediterranean Sea. Due to which the incident of cloudburst took a formidable form. This is to say that Ankit Aggarwal, a scientific professor of the Hydrology Department of IIT Roorkee. He says that due to climate change, now Western disturbances and monsoon are shifting forward. In 2013, Kedarnath also had a similar western disturbance effect, which was in Uttarkashi on Tuesday. Let us know that scientists of the Hydrology Department of IIT Roorkee are working on the Indo German project with Potsdam University in Germany. In which research and prediction of natural threats (cloudburst and excess rainfall) is being done in the Indian Himalayan region.
07:55 am, 06-Aug-2025
30 meter road collapsed near Gangotri highway, district administration teams stuck in Bhatwadi
07:49 am, 06-Aug-2025
River water level is increasing due to continuous rains
The water level of the river is increasing due to the continuous rains in the district. The District Magistrate directed the people living in the banks of the river to stay at safe places and to warning the police administration. Due to heavy excessive race, debris and boulders have come to many places on the Gangotri highway, which is blocked. The District Magistrate instructed the BRO to smooth the road on a war footing.
07:41 am, 06-Aug-2025
Relief camp set up in Harshil
DM Prashant Arya and SP Sarita Dobal have left for the spot as soon as the incident was received. The administration has also set up relief camps in Harshil. The DM said that the entire assessment of the damage will be done by reaching the spot.
07:24 am, 06-Aug-2025
Uttarkashi cloudburst live: relief work continues in search of 70 people, PM Modi updated from CM
On Tuesday afternoon, a cloudburst in Kheerganga over Dharali village in Uttarkashi district caused a sudden flood in the Kheerganga river. The flow of debris and water was so fast that the main market of Dharli was completely destroyed due to its grip. In this disaster, the famous Kalp Kedar temple of Dharali has also been completely swept away in debris. The administration has so far confirmed the death of four people, while 70 people are said to be missing.
According to eyewitnesses, clouds were cracked over the village at around 1:50 pm on Tuesday afternoon. After this, within just 20 seconds, the water and debris of the Kheerganga river turned towards the main market. People were running here and there to save their lives, but before he could go to a safe place, the swells destroyed everything. Many hotels, resorts, shops, houses and apple gardens present there were frozen. There was screaming.
On seeing this, the entire market turned into a pile of debris. As soon as the information was received, the district administration immediately came into action and teams of SDRF, NDRF, army and police were sent on the spot. The rescue team has immediately started relief and rescue operations and took out many people trapped in the hotel safely.