Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
KOCHI: The State Government has sanctioned a fund of Rs 1 crore for the district to deal with natural calamities for the current year, District Collector M Beena has said.
Bangalore West was in a shambles after heavy rain and gusts left in their wake large-scale uprooting of trees and electricity poles and damage of vehicles on Wednesday evening.
LUCY TOBIN The probes do not need a huge chunk of concrete or a power station to get them to run and they contain long-lasting batteries Accurate forewarning: Put together with meteorological predictions for rainfall and storms, the data from the sensors can show how and why things are moving, and indicate the start of a landslide.
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NEW DELHI: Delhi Urban Development and Finance Minister A. K. Walia on Tuesday said the Delhi Government has taken steps to include the topic of disaster management in the school curriculum and is also coming out with a ready guide for households on how people should respond in the event of an earthquake.
George Monbiot As the bank crisis and now the volcano shows, beyond a certain level, connectivity becomes a hazard.
The local authorities on Tuesday requisitioned the services of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to carry out rescue operations in Guwahati after heavy rains in the past three days led to large-scale inundation of numerous residential localities in the Assam capital.
Guwahati: Authorities Tuesday deployed paramilitary troopers to carry out rescue operations in Assam's main city of Guwahati hit by massive flooding, triggered by heavy rains since Sunday. Troopers of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), using rubber boats and rafts, rescued more than 200 people from various city areas reeling under waist deep water.
Under the National Calamity Contingency Fund, the Finance Ministry has approved Rs 1,200 crore for Punjab and Haryana for providing electricity and water to farmers and saving its paddy crop The Central government will give Punjab Rs 800 crore as reward for the efforts it made to save crop last year and not seeking compensation by calling the state drought-hit.
Protracted dry spell during winter followed by abnormal rise in mercury during March and April has spelt doom for farmers in the hills state who are facing third successive crop failure.