JOLTED JOSHIMATH!

New Delhi/Joshimath: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting to review the situation in Joshimath, a hill town in Uttarakhand that is facing land subsidence affecting the lives of hundreds of families.

The meeting, which was attended by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, RK Singh, Bhupendra Yadav and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, was held to discuss issues related to roads, power supply, water scarcity and environment in Joshimath in the wake of land subsidence.

Meanwhile, demolition commenced with demolition of Hotel Malari, which was marked unsafe due to building developing more deeper cracks that nudged it to incline backwards.