Friday, January 28, 2011

The Writing on the wall...an excerpt from the Statesman

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High-rises and low concern 27 January 2011 Caught between the chaos of the Gorkhaland movement and the advantage taken of an uncaring admin...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

A most relevant video on Disaster Risk Reduction - Jan2011

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You might also like to read the last blog  here   Praful Rao
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Excerpts from Sikkim Express : Landslide Mitigation with Japanese technical help

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Meeting on landslide mitigation held Focus on preparation of State Disaster Management Plan with special emphasis on landslide management  G...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

A week of cataclysmic natural disasters

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To anyone even remotely interested in monitoring the weather, the week gone by has been one of exceptional and cataclysmic hydrological happ...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Community based landslide warning systems

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Dr David Petley of Durham University (UK) has been a staunch friend of STH over the past 3 years and I consult him regularly on the many asp...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Working with the Communities 2011- Dumsi Pakha village, Kalimpong

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Dumsi Pakha is a tiny village located within Kalimpong town's municipal limits and has been featured in detail in this blog here . It ...
Friday, December 31, 2010

A positive ending to 2010

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If we must work against the huge landslide problem in the Darjeeling - Sikkim Himalaya, it must be on a multidimensional level where we impr...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

A milestone : At the National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi

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NIDM in New Delhi is the country's premier institution for imparting training on Disaster Management, as such it was a privilege to be ...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

STH activities at Kolkata (30Nov2010) and New Delhi (10Dec2010)

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NIDM has organized a 5 day "Comprehensive Landslide Risk Mitigation and Management" training program at New Delhi from 06Dec-10...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

From the Newspapers today (27Nov2010). DARJEELING: Illegal urban construction posing natural disaster threat to Darjeeling

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Frymal village, Darjeeling (Cyclone Aila May2009) FROM DAILYINDIA.COM Darjeeling (West Bengal), Nov.27 (ANI) : The massive construction ...