Floods

SRINAGAR, Sept 1: Due to flash floods and cloudburst in Leh last month, 28 thousand quintals of food grains of different standing crops spread over 1400 hector of agriculture land have been damaged. This was revealed from the survey of SKUAST(K) conducted about the damage caused to the Agriculture crop and land by the cloudburst. The survey team was deputed by the Minister for Agriculture, G

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Goutam Das Bangalore: People made homeless by north Karnataka’s devastating flood last September have a helping hand in technological firms now. These firms plan to roll out new colonies that will give a new lease of life to the flood-affected.

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Vinod Thomas and Ronald S. Parker CATASTROPHE: The floods in Pakistan are estimated to have been worse than the scale of the devastating 2004 tsunami. The frequency and intensity of natural disasters have been on the rise in recent decades.

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KAMALABARI, Sept 1 – Erosion by the Brahmaputra continues unabated at Shalmara, Dakhinpat, Kumargaon, Chumoimari, Bengenati, Bhakat Chapari, Saraati, Moluwal and Dakhin Majuli. On the northern side of Majuli, erosion by the Kherkatiya suti, a stream of the Subansiri has endangered the existence of Jengraimukh, the hub of tribal culture in the upper part of the river island.

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After deciding to route assistance to flood devastated Pakistan through the United Nations, India has increased its contribution to $ 25 million from the initial pledge of $ 5 million that was offered earlier this month.

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More than 2,500 trees have been cut down to plug breaches near Dhussi dam and its surrounding areas in Ludhiana. In Kherabet area alone, more than 600 trees were cut from the forestland, though not a single tree grown by the landlords on the riverbed have been touched. “The landlords have grown poplar trees on encroached government land, and are earning huge profit.

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GANGTOK, Aug 31 – The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs 248.49 lakh against a total project cost of Rs 272.53 lakh to Sikkim for implementation of two infrastructure projects under RIDF-XVI.

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Hyderabad, Aug. 30: Parts of the state are in imminent danger of floods as rain continued to lash the districts on Monday. Thousands had to be evacuated to safer places in the West Godavari district due to the incessant rains. In Khammam district, a couple were killed when their house collapsed due to heavy rains early on Monday morning while they were asleep. The victims were identified as N.

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Karachi: Floodwaters inundated a large town in southern Pakistan on Sunday as authorities struggled to build new levees with clay and stone to prevent one of the area’s biggest cities from suffering the same fate. Almost all of Sujawal’s 250,000 residents fled the town before the water rushed in, but the damage to homes, clinics and schools added to the widespread devastation the floods have

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Alleging corruption in maintenance work of dams in the state, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on Sunday demanded a judicial probe in to breaking of Algin-Charsadi dam leading to hundreds of villages being flooded in Gonda and Barabanki districts. RLD state president Ram Asrey Verma accusing state administration for playing with the lives of people said, only due to poor quality of maintenance work Algi

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