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
Floodwaters set off by heavy rain in northern India have killed at least 17 people, washed away thousands of homes and forced some two million people to evacuate in a 24-hour period, officials said Thursday. A large section of Uttar Pradesh State has been covered by floodwaters that have spilled over the banks of several rivers, a state spokesman said.
Lucknow: People of western UP heaved a sigh of relief as rainfall activity slowed down and water began to recede in some places on Thursday. But their ordeal is far from over as a fresh alert has been sounded for districts along the banks of the Ganga and Yamuna.
New Delhi: The city witnessed its worst flood since 1978 as the Yamuna touched 207.11 metres late Wednesday night and remained at that level for eight hours.
ABOUT 50 per cent of the structures in the capital Dhaka will be damaged if an earthquake with an intensity of V and VI on the Mercalli scale hits the densely-populated city, warns noted green activist Iqbal Habib. Buildings constructed in non-engineered manner constitute more than 60 per cent of the total structures in the capital, said Habib, an architect by training who is currently the gen
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday announced Rs 500-crore relief assistance to flood-hit Uttarakhand, a day after Congress president Sonia Gandhi requested him for a liberal package to the state. The advance interim assistance would be in addition to the money given on Tuesday for the State Disaster Response Fund, a PMO release said.
Random violation of building codes and unplanned urbanisation has compounded the capital Dhaka
With heavy rain lashing northern parts of the country during the last 18 hours, low lying areas on the banks of Yamuna river are facing possibility of flash floods in Haryana even as 1.3 lakh cusecs of water was released from the Hathni Kund Barrage into the Yamuna on Wednesday.
Environmental degradation and waning natural resources threaten U.S.
DEHRA DUN: The Uttarakhand Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Centre to declare the massive devastation by rain, landslides and floods in the hill State a national disaster. The day began with the Bahujan Samaj Party members entering the well of the House demanding a debate on the disaster.
LUCKNOW: The flood situation in the 12 districts of western Uttar Pradesh continued to be grim on Wednesday with Moradabad, which has been inundated by the Ramganga, being the worst affected even as the Ganga, Yamuna, Ramganga, Kosi and their tributaries showed a receding trend. The situation in Barabanki, Bahraich, Gonda, Balrampur and Maharajganj districts of eastern U.P.