India News: Snowmelt in the char dham area of Uttarakhand caused by the rain on June 16-17 might have added to the swollen rivers that barreled through steep vall ...

All snow-fed rivers and water streams of the state are in spate and water level is increasing every day. Water level of Beas, Parvati, Chenab, Satluj, Ravi and other rivers and streams is rising.

India is one of the world's major polluters, and its rivers are dying. In March this year, an activist, Brij Khandelwal, called up the police and reported a murder. "The river Yamuna is dead ...

The centre for climatic change used satellite data of 2017- 2018 to estimate snow cover in these rivers. The data was compared with that of average values estimated during the period 2016-2017.