Officials say the land is slowly sinking in Joshimath ... Hanging' glacier broke off to trigger India flood Cracks have developed in more than 670 of some 4,500 buildings - including a local ...

Farmer Shiv Lal barely slept this week, overcome by worry about the deep cracks scarring his land and hundreds of other homes and buildings in a sinking town in India’s Himalayas. On Jan. 2 and 3, Lal ...

Dozens of families from Joshimath town in India's Uttarakhand state have been ... a government committee had flagged the risks of land sinking in Joshimath after residents complained of cracks ...

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New Delhi: After Uttarakhand's Joshimath, it's Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban which is facing the land subsidence crisis. Due to the sinking land in the area, more than 50 houses have been damaged ...

Hyderabad: Land subsidence, or the sinking of land ... soil properties and tectonic forces. "In southern India, where seismic activity is rare, we must consider other factors," he said.

The Uttarakhand High Court-appointed commissioners on January 6 submitted a report on unregulated mining operations in the district in Kumaon ...

Land prices, however, flattened out in the second half of the year after sinking in the first half, when the first nationwide state of emergency was declared, according to data concerning ...