DEHRADUN: Two persons from a family died when lightning struck the common courtyard of their houses in Sarpaani village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on Friday night. Hema Devi, 33, and her ...

Uttarakhand's Raini village in Chamoli district, where flash flood tragedy struck on Sunday, has played a central role in one of India’s first major environmental movements -the Chipko movement ...