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
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Millions still stranded as rescue ops on
New Delhi,Sept. 1: As millions remain marooned, a high-level team headed by Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar will visit Bihar on Tuesday to oversee rescue and relief operations in the flood-affected areas. Increasing the number of its flood relief columns from 21 to 37 in Madhepura, Araria and Supaul districts, the Army has provided six more helicopters to speed up the relief measures. While 320 boats are already deployed in the flood-hit areas, 197 more are being organised by the Army, Central paramilitary forces and various state governments.
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Kaziranga submerged, animals flee to safety
BY MANOJ ANAND Guwahati Sept. 1: After inundating hundreds of villages, the rising water of mighty Brahmaputra has submerged a large portion of Kaziranga National Park forcing a large number of endangered animals to flee from the park for safer high lands. The director of the park S.N. Buragohain said: "More than half of Kaziranga National Park is now under water. The park animals have started migrating towards safer high lands." The Brahmaputra and its tributaries have submerged about 1,200 villages while displacing more than 50,000 people in eight districts of Assam.
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Flood plays havoc with Asom
CM orders probe into breach of embankment Staff Reporter & UNI GUWAHATI, Sept 1: Floods continued to wrack havoc in Asom where the Puthimari river overtopped NH 31, the lifeline of the Northeast, snapping road communication. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, along with Water Resource Minister Bharat Chandra Narah and Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Bhubaneswar Kalita, visited Rangiya. Gogoi ordered an inquiry into the breach in the newly constructed embankment along the Puthimari river.
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Interview with Dipak Gyawali
Dipak Gyawali, former Minister for Water Resources, heads Nepal Water Conservation Foundation and is hydropower expert. Q: Why did the Koshi breach its embankment? Who was responsible for the repair work-- India or Nepal?
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3m displaced in Bihar floods
Authorities struggling to provide aid after devastating floods in Bihar said on Sunday they needed more boats and rescuers to help hundreds of thousands of people still marooned in remote villages. Bad weather and heavy rain over the past few days have hampered rescue and relief operations in the worst-ever floods to hit Bihar state in 50 years, officials said.
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Taming the Kosi river
Kosi, the river of sorrow of Bihar, is in the news. The news is really bad. As long expected by the professinals, embankment has breached. Fifty thousand persons in Nepal and 2.5 million in Bihar are experiencing the fury of the Kosi flood. Embankments are no solution to the flood problem.
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The Kosi disaster: Millions flooded out
Just as Hurricane Katrina caused levees in the Mississippi Delta to breach in August 2005, flooding large parts of New Orleans, this year
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Spatio-temporal shift of western bank of the Ganga river, Allahabad city and its implications
Ganga is one of the largest rivers of the world which supports millions of population on its banks. It is a tectonically controlled Himalayan river which also creates havoc due to perennial floods every year. Like most large river systems, it also shifts its course in the Gangetic plains in space and time.
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Bihar floods 2008: needs assessment report
Flooding has caused unprecedented devastation in the eastern state of Bihar in India with thousands missing and thousands of villages destroyed.