Principal Secretary to PM highlights mitigating risks associated with glacial lakes to ensure safer future

Nov 12, 2024

Mishra was speaking on the occasion of the 4th Workshop of the Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction (CoDRR) on Strategies for GLOF (Glacial Lake...

Sikkim govt gives Rs 10,000 each to over 8,000 labourers as relief after GLOF

Oct 15, 2023

Over 8,733 labourers will be handed the relief fund after they were affected South Lhonak Lake Glacial Lake Outburst Flood across the Teesta Basin...

Sikkim: 510 MW Teesta Stage 5 dam's power station destroyed by landslide

Aug 20, 2024

The aftermath of the Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) still affects Sikkim, as a major landslide on Tuesday morning has destroyed the power station...

Nagaland University-led project to assess high-altitude lake stability and GLOF risks in Eastern Himalayas

Jul 28, 2025

A Nagaland University-led project is developing a detailed and near-accurate inventory and stability assessment of high-altitude lakes in the Sikkim and Arunachal Himalayas.

Glacial lake outburst floods devastate Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan, severing roads and threatening homes

Aug 11, 2025

Climate change-driven disasters continue to batter Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) as a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) from the Shishper Glacier tore through Hassanabad Nullah,...

Glacier burst and floods devastate Ghizer in PoGB, 330 homes damaged as artificial lake forms

Aug 23, 2025

A glacial lake outburst (GLOF) triggered flooding that caused extensive damage, resulting in the formation of an artificial lake yesterday morning. Numerous villages were...