Sudden and intense bursts of extreme rainfall are causing devastation across mountainous parts of South Asia, triggering ...

By Saeed Shah, Rajendra Jadhav and Shilpa Jamkhandikar ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Massive, sudden downpours of rain known ...

By a widely accepted definition, a cloudburst means more than 100 mm of rainfall in one hour, over a small area.

Hundreds have died in India and Pakistan in recent floods blamed on cloudbursts, sudden, violent downpours that experts say ...

A spate of cloudbursts, flash floods and landslides across the Himalayan states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand this monsoon has again laid bare the mountain's risk to short, vi ...

On Aug. 5, a flash flood devastated much of the Himalayan village of Dharali in India’s Uttarakhand state. As of Aug. 17, six ...

Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area. The intense, ...

Two experts warn that the Chardham road project in Uttarakhand could lead to disasters similar to Dharali unless an ...

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami held a meeting with the officials at the disaster control room of Uttarkashi ...

A catastrophic mudslide swept away an entire village in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on Tuesday, triggered by a ...

Nearly 200 people were rescued from Dharali, a remote mountainous village in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand state, after ...

Thirteen Nepalese nationals from Jajarkot district's Kushe Rural Municipality are missing following flash floods in ...