'Sinking' Joshimath: Uttarakhand readies choppers, plans to move residents

n an urgent and high-powered meeting called by chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday, the Uttarakhand government — shaken by reports of a "sinking" Joshimath and images of huge cracks on the town's buildings, roads and fields — has signalled "maximum alert" and put a slew of emergency measures in place, most of them to be implemented immediately.

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