A source in the state irrigation department said that the joint inspection is the fallout of the comments that Mamata had ...

A glacial lake at the foot of Jomolhari mountain in Bhutan. Up to 15 million people face risk of catastrophic flooding from glacial lakes which could burst their natural dams at any moment ...

First in the world to develop scientific approaches to glacial lake outburst There have been concerns in Bhutan and Nepal in recent years about the danger of glacial lake outburst floods resulting ...

Trashiyangtse— Settlements along the banks of two streams in Trashiyangtse live under constant threat of flooding every monsoon without proper flood mitigation measures. In September, the stream ...

Kolkata: Members of the West Bengal Assembly on Friday discussed a draft resolution proposing the formation of an Indo-Bhutan Joint River Commission to prevent recurring floods in Terai-Dooars ...

Preparing for future earthquakes by developing and spreading earthquake risk evaluation and aseismic protection techniques In Bhutan, most residential and public facilities are made of rammed earth* ...