Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Tracking "Nargis"

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Placed above is a satellite image of severe cyclone " NARGIS " and its predicted track as on 29Apr2008 at approx 1600hr. This, as...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Landslide and slide prone zones in the vicinity of Darjeeling town

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I am from Kalimpong and as such all of my blogs/ reports/ photographs etc pertain to my town - which may be giving an impression that only K...
Friday, April 25, 2008

A letter to Sikkim

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The landslide problem is common to Sikkim and the Darjeeling Himalayas and the monsoons afflict both these areas with equal severity as it d...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

"It will go, it will go in the rains (barkha) this Jul-Aug..."

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Rai Gaon, Barabhalukhop, Kalimpong is an area which I visit often. Yesterday, during one such visit I met Mr Man Bahadur (MB) Subba, aged 65...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Some questions to the Administration

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As is known, the new Administrator of the DGHC, Mr BL Meena (IAS) has committed that landslide prevention will also be included in the prior...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Moving the Landslide issue centre stage 2

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Excerpt from the Telegraph (16Apr2008) Meena focuses on landslides ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

How to kill a town...

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_________________________________________ Placed below is an excerpt from the Telegraph today. Worry over cable holes on road ...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Moving the landslide issue centre stage

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Amongst the many people, that letters have been sent to regarding the landslide problem in this area is Dr RK Bhandari, Chairman, CENTRE FOR...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Learning from the learned..

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The Department of Science and Technology, Govt of West Bengal is responsible for, amongst other things, preparation of high resolution maps ...
Monday, April 7, 2008

A story in pictures...

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