State of the Climate in Asia 2024
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Floods
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7 die in Orissa floods
Rabindra Nath Choudhury The flash floods triggered by the depression over the Bay of Bengal have wrought havoc in Orissa killing at least seven people and affecting more than 10 lakh people. Around 1,400 villages in five districts have been marooned by the floods in major rivers like the Subarnarekha, the Budhabalanga and the Jalaka. The worst-hit districts were Balasore, Bhadrak, Mayurbhanj and Jajpur.
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Army in Bengal, flood toll is nine
The flood situation in South Bengal on Thursday has worsened with death toll rising to nine. Worried by the gravity of the situation in East Medinipur and West Medinipur the state government has deployed three companies of Army personnel to expedite relief and rescue operation. Three more companies of the Army have been asked to join the relief operation from Friday. Eastern Air Command has also been pressed for dropping food packets and relief materials in Flood-hit areas of West and East Midnapur since Wednesday evening while flood waters submerged parts of a new district, Bankura.
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Midwest floods expose outdated levee systems
At least 18 more levees on the already flooded Mississippi River are at high risk of being overwhelmed this weekend, endangering small communities and farmland where decades-old flood protections are far below modern-day guidelines. At least half of the 31 levees already breached or topped between southern Iowa and St. Louis were not built to handle a flood of such historic proportions, according to a USA TODAY review of data from the Army Corps of Engineers. Many of those were built at least 30 years ago, and some date to the 1940s.
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PCMC ready to tackle floods, sets up flood control dept
Just before the commencement of the monsoon, PCMC commissioner Ashish Sharma called for a meeting of various officials to discuss flood control measures recently. People staying near the banks of the rivers Pavna, Mula and Indryani have to face the menace of floods, threatening their life and property.
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Kolaghat stirs to life
Two of the six power units that had collapsed in Kolaghat on Tuesday were revived this evening, but the districts still stayed dark because generation was low. The 210MW units had collapsed after the switchyard of the Kolaghat thermal power plant got flooded. Six pumps helped clear the water in the switchyard. "But there was a thick layer of slush in the switchyard which had to be cleared. This led to delay in repairs,' a power department official said.
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Buddha on flood recce today
- Eleven people die in Midnapores as Met office forecasts more rain in coastal areas The flood killed 11 more people in East and West Midnapore today, taking the toll to 20 and prompting the government to add to its relief purse. Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who will be travelling to Kolaghat in East Midnapore tomorrow, held a meeting with finance minister Asim Dasgupta, health minister Surjya Kanta Mishra and relief minister Mortaza Hossain in Calcutta. He might visit some of the flood-hit areas tomorrow.
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Ground reality: Big housing projects drown
Mohali villages High Court warns developers, government officials of action The building blocks of Mohali
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Govt, NEEPCO wrangle over floods
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Flood prevention project within two years'
The Rs.253-crore flood prevention project, to strengthen the bunds of the Cauvery, Coleroon and other rivers in Tiruchi, Karur and combined Perambalur districts, would be completed within two years, Public Works Department Minister Durai Murugan has said. Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi would lay the foundation stones for this and three other projects of the Public Works Department to be taken up in Tiruchi, Thanjavur, Karur, Nagapattinam and combined Perambalur districts here on June 24.
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16 lakh hit in West Bengal flash floods
Normal life out of gear in Orissa, 50 villages in Balasore badly affected Flood fury: A trailer truck that plunged into the water when a bridge on the national highway between Balasore and Kharagpur was washed away in the floods. More than 16 lakh people are affected in flash floods that have inundated vast areas in West Bengal's Paschim and Purbo Medinipur districts following torrential rains over the past two days. Four people were killed and three reported missing in the two districts, according to reports reaching here on Wednesday.