As houses and roads began to crack, about 240 families were temporarily relocated and many others fled the Himalayan town out of fear. Navin Juyal, a geologist currently studying the cause of sinking land and damaged houses in Joshimath, says the town reached a “tipping point” on January 3. “The town is built on the debris of an old landslide …
Published : Jan 26, 2023 10:45 IST By the end of 2022, there had already been several reports of local protests about the “gradual sinking” of Joshimath, a small Himalayan mountain town in the northern State of Uttarakhand. But it was only on January 5, several days after cracks began to appear in hundreds of houses and the matter became …
