State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Floods
-
Upstream rivers continue to swell: Dhaka region braces for serious floods
The country is bracing for possible major flooding in the next two days with heavy rain forecast for neighbouring India set to swell its rivers to dangerous levels. Director of Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) Saiful Hossain yesterday said downpours expected in north-eastern India likely to cause problems for parts of Bangladesh. Floods displaced thousands of families yesterday as rescuers braced for another day of heavy rains, our correspondents and agencies reported.
-
Alert sounded in Assam after 20 killed in floods
GUWAHATI The floods have claimed 20 lives so far even as the situation in central Assam, Majuli river island and Kaziranga National Park remained grim and further deteriorated on Thursday.
-
Flood situation grim, relief pours in
NEW DELHI The National Crisis Management Committee headed by the Cabinet secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar reviewed the flood situation in Bihar on Thursday even as rescue and relief measures continued. As many as 37 Army columns, 13 helicopters, 599 boats, 783 NDRF personnel, 7695 tents, 10 satellite phones, 4 lakh drinking water bottles, 510 water purifying plants have been provided by the Centre so far as assistance to the state government in rescue and relief operations.
-
Flood fury in Gidderpindi - Cross bundhs in Sutlej led to breaches: experts
Certain cross bundhs in Sutlej caused breaches in it near Gidderpindi village. Sources said a group of engineers sent by Punjab government to probe the breaches, had concluded cross bundhs impeded free flow of Sutlej at some places near Gidderpindi, leading to breaches in embankments of defence bundhs of Sutlej. Several villages were flooded three weeks ago due to the breaches. In 1988, Sutlej had small breach upstream, at a short distance from Gidderpindi village. This time, it breached near Pritam Singh
-
UN food agency funds to increase rice production in conflict affected areas of Sri Lanka
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is to provide US$ 500,000 to increase rice production in conflict and flood affected districts of Sri Lanka. In a press release yesterday, the FAO said it has approved the funding for the project "Input supply to vulnerable populations under Initiative on Soaring Food Prices" in response to a request by the Sri Lankan government for assistance in combating the soaring food prices. FAO will provide funds to renovate the paddy lands in the troubled areas and will distribute seed paddy to the farmers in those areas.
-
Flooding continues to worsen in central areas
The flooding in the central part of the country, including Dhaka, deteriorated further as the rivers flowing over the region continue to swell on Thursday. Flood experts also forecasted inundation of more low lying areas in Chandpur, Sirajganj, Tangail, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Faridpur, Madaripur and Shariatpur, Dohar and Nawabganj upazilas in Dhaka and Shibganj and Sadar upazilas in Chapainawabganj by the next 72 hours.
-
As Yamuna overflows, plans to control flood gather dust
Yamuna in spate, people leave homes four drown in Yamuna in separate incidents2010 Games: govt goes green, will procure 10 ...Residents protest police apathy, SSP suspends... New Delhi, September 4 The Yamuna could have been tamed this monsoon, experts say, if the Centre and the Delhi government had carefully gone through two separate studies that highlighted the need to utilise the rush of water in the river every time it floods.
-
Not floods but criminal design failure
Sadanand Menon / New Delhi September 05, 2008, 0:14 IST The jacketing or embanking of the river systems in north Bihar must go down as among the most ill-thought out schemes in Independent India.
-
Majuli bearing the brunt of worst-ever floods
Kabita duarah GUWAHATI, Sept 4
-
For an action plan for Bihar
M.S. Swaminathan Action to revive livelihoods when thefloods recede is as important as savinglives. This will call for a proactive,