Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
DOWN TO EARTH Sunita Narain / New Delhi September 12, 2008, 2:47 IST We were so greedy for land, we killed the very channels that prevented rivers from flooding. This year, for once, the devastating floods of Bihar, where Kosi has swollen to expand across the state seem to have …
Manoj Prasad Posted: Sep 11, 2008 at 2321 hrs IST Ranchi, September 10 For Akhilesh Kumar, trapped in the Kosi flood, the only ray of hope came through his cellphone.
AUGUST 18,2008. In the wee hours of the day, the river Kosi breaches the embankments in Kusaha, Nepal, leaving in its wake an awesome trail of death and destruction downstream in Bihar's northern plains. Panic-stricken, people run helter skelter ooking for high ground, railway tracks, trees, whatever, to escape the …
BY RASHME SEHGAL SUPAUL, NORTHEAST BIHAR Behli Camp, located northeast of Supaul, is the last outpost of dry land after which the turbulent waters of the raging Kosi river take over. It is from here that the Army and private entrepreneurs are ferrying boats to bring in marooned villagers who …
Atul Thakur | TNN Saharsa: Kripanand Thakur of Forbesganj is a very worried man. His mother, 75-year-old Maya Devi, is still stuck in Pratapganj block of Supaul. Although the distance between Forbesganj and Pratapganj is only 35 km, Kripanand took 24 hours in traversing Katihar, Khagaria and Saharsa to reach …
NEW DELHI With water level of the rampaging Kosi river receding after wreaking havoc in five northeast districts of Bihar, the overall flood situation in the state improved even as rescue and evacuation operations were stopped. Bihar officials said as the flood waters had started to recede, many people sheltered …
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar SHOWING SOLIDARITY: Bollywood star and politician Shatrughan Sinha, helping in loading relief materials being sent for the flood victims in Bihar, at his residence in New Delhi, on Sunday. NEW DELHI: While they may be busy as the Assembly elections are drawing nearer, leaders of both the …
Anubhuti Vishnoi New Delhi, September 7: Receding floodwaters have prompted the authorities to assess the extent of damage done by the Kosi and the figures trickling in suggests it would be long before Bihar
Manisha Jha and Sandeep Dikshit HANDS THAT SPEAK: Flood-affected people reach out for food packets distributed by a relief agency at Raghunathpur in Bihar's Madhepura district on Friday. Rescue workers have taken over 8 lakh people to safety, but tens of thousands are still believed to be trapped. PURNIA: The …
NEW DELHI: The Union Rural Development Ministry has announced a Rs. 1,600-crore assistance package for the flood affected people of Bihar. All employees of the Ministry have also decided to contribute a day
NEW DELHI With Bihar still grappling with the ravages of the Kosi floods, the rural development ministry has chipped in with a massive additional allocation of Rs 1,600 crores for the relief and rehabilitation work in the state. The amount is over and above the grant of Rs 1,000 crores …
The overflowing Kosi had, as of end-August, wreaked destruction on more than three million people living in north and east Bihar. A field visit reports on the misery of the affected, haphazard rescue efforts and criminal exploitation of the uprooted. The immediate task is to improve relief operations and then …
The breaching of embankments in the upstream areas of the Kosi river, in Kusaha village in Nepal, has resulted in yet another round of floods in north Bihar, in the districts of Supaul, Saharsa, Araria, Madhepura, Katihar and Purnia. The disaster this time is much larger than usual. More than …
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 …
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. I am talking about the so-called
