आज का दिन हैं 6 अक्टूबर 2025, और हम लाये हैं आज घटित आपदाओं का लेखा-जोखा : Get to know about disasters across the globe on this day, particularly in the mountainous regions, besides updating your knowledge of historical disaster related facts.
Devastation in the Eastern Himalayas: Landslides and Flash Floods of October 5, 2025
The catastrophic October 2025 floods in the Eastern Himalayas (Nepal, Sikkim, West Bengal) prove that unseasonal rain is the new normal. We reveal the systemic failures—from dam mismanagement to ignoring GLOF threats—that turned a heavy storm into a multi-state humanitarian crisis.
Disaster Update: October 5, 2025
आज का दिन हैं 5 अक्टूबर 2025, और हम लाये हैं आज घटित आपदाओं का लेखा-जोखा : Get to know about disasters across the globe on this day, particularly in the mountainous regions, besides updating your knowledge of historical disaster related facts.
Disaster Update: October 4, 2025
October 4 – Disasters across the globe on this day, particularly in the mountainous regions. Get to know the events of today as also those recorded in history.
Understanding Ourselves to Build a Safer Future
To build a safer future we need to understand our psychological and cultural biases and prepare a strategy to overcome these so as to infuse resilience in our communities.
Santa’s Blessed Mohalla and the Ignored Landslide Warning
Adherence to disaster safety measures is to come by only with the acceptance that our inherent Positivity Bias makes us ignorant and vulnerable.
The German Lesson and the Bamboo Army
A story about moving from despair to action, and the discovery that the best solutions are often the simplest ones.
The Ghost of the Buried River
A story about a modern road, an old map, and the discovery that sometimes, the biggest floods happen where there is no river at all.
The Riverfront Property Steal
A real estate bargain can well turn out to be a high-risk liability – better ensure you are not encroaching the floodplains and not partnering obliteration of drainage as waas done in the Doon Valley.
Dehradun’s Flood Catastrophe and the Global Imperative for Floodplain Resilience
Dehradun’s devastating floods in September 2025 were not an act of God, but a man-made catastrophe. We uncover how the obliteration of the city’s ancient canal network for wider roads turned a manageable downpour into urban ruin.