Unlike regular floods that build up over time, flash floods come with little warning and can overwhelm an area in minutes.

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

Recent cloudbursts, flash floods, and landslides in the Himalayan states highlight the region's vulnerability to intense ...

The flood buried half of Dharali village, built on a dried river course, and washed away an Army camp in Harshil. Six people ...

A landslide-induced lake outburst triggered a chain reaction among several small lakes, resulting in a massive flash flood ...

Flash floods and landslides caused widespread havoc across several regions of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and ...

Uttarakhand, the mountainous northern state that hosts Dharali, has been devastated by cloudbursts before. A June 2013 ...

The IMD has urged people to remain vigilant over the next 24 hours, as extremely heavy rainfall from cloudbursts may trigger ...

Experts from the Indian Meteorological Department are now arguing that the flash flood in Dharali village, Uttarakhand, was ...

A major rescue operation is underway in northern India after a deadly cloudburst triggered flash floods in Uttarakhand, ...

A cloudburst in Uttarakhand's Dharali has triggered devastating flash floods, leading to at least four confirmed deaths and ...

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has raised a red alert, cautioning against an imminent threat of flash floods ...