Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Acharya Damodar Shastri & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 17/12/2021. Grievance in the application is against failure of the state authorities in preventing discharge of untreated sewage and waste water/effluents from Vrindavan and Kosi towns in 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 …
Flooding has caused unprecedented devastation in the eastern state of Bihar in India with thousands missing and thousands of villages destroyed. Around four million people have been displaced from their homes in 16 districts. An emergency response team from ActionAid visited the affected areas for a rapid assessment and has …
Abantika Ghosh | TNN New Delhi: Exactly two decades ago, the apology of a river that flows through Delhi had inundated it, leaving 20 people dead. Old timers recall how the top of the gigantic Hanuman statue near Kashmere Gate was the only thing visible above the waters. Even as …
K. Balchand Nowhere to go: A goods train halting at a station in flooded North Bihar on Wednesday. The station, where many people have taken refuge, is completely cut off from the rest of the State. PATNA: With flood waters swamping more areas in Bihar, the race is to prevent …
Food riots as Indian floods destroy 250,000 homes PATNA, India (Reuters) - Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and about 250,000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years. One person …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi August 28, 2008, 0:18 IST Bihar seeks Rs 1,000 crore and 100,000 tonnes of foodgrain immediately. Work to fill the nearly two-and-a-half kilometre breach in the Kosi barrage embankment has begun with the help of initial supplies from the Farrakka barrage. The breach has caused …
Business Standard / New Delhi August 28, 2008, 5:58 IST Floods, often deemed mistakenly as natural disasters, are the result mostly of human misadventure in the river catchments, and the neglect of water systems. The catastrophe caused by the turbulent Kosi river in north Bihar, after breaching its embankment at …
Nitish not serious about relief: Raghuvansh NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that the floods in Bihar be declared a national calamity. It urged the Prime Minister to intervene to ensure that the Army and the Air Force came to the rescue of lakhs of people who were …
Bs Reporter / New Delhi August 27, 2008, 5:53 IST Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will visit New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow to ask for help to deal with what he terms "a catastrophe.' The chief minister, who is also the disaster management minister of the …
The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MoAC) said on Tuesday that the devastating flood caused by the Saptakoshi River breaching its embankment damaged crops worth Rs 300 million in Sunsari district. A week-long field assessment conducted by an M0AC team shows that paddy cultivation suffered the biggest loss of Rs …
The Kosi river in north Bihar plains, eastern India presents a challenge in terms of long and recurring flood hazard. Despite a long history of flood control management in the basin for more than 5 decades, the river continues to bring a lot of misery through extensive flooding. This paper …
A 13km-wide current flowing at enormous speed over a stretch of 100km. Over a million people have lost their crops, land and homes. It could get worse Subodh Varma New Delhi: Every once in a while, nature reminds humans that it is the boss. The Kosi river, which gathers water …
Ashok K Mishra BIHAR BIHAR'S sorrow, the Kosi, has changed its course near Kusaha village in Nepal for the first time in the last 50 years after breaching the East Kosi afflux embankment threatening millions of lives. Over 12 lakh people are trapped between the old and the new streams …
Patna, With over 20 lakh people bearing the brunt of floods in 14 districts of Bihar, three Indian Air Force helicopters continued to drop relief materials in the worst hit Supaul, Araria and Madhepura for the fifth successive day as the turbulent waters of the Kosi submerged fresh areas in …
The Home Ministry has informed that around 40,000 people have been displaced due to floods in Saptakosi river. "Till now, 40,378 people of 7102 families have been displaced,' the Ministry has informed. The Ministry has informed that 5500 hectares of land, 12 km of black-topped road and 13 km of …
After the Saptakosi river damaged dams in western Kusaha region of Sunsari district, Monday, over 25,000 people have been displaced. A section of East-West highway in Laukahi area has also been obstructed due to the flood. As the swollen river started to erode the dams and inundate the nearby villages, …
The Koshi Basin is the largest river basin of Nepal. It originates from the Tibetan Plateau of China. The Koshi river is also known as the "sorrow of Bihar". Floods from the Koshi river in the past have created havoc in the downstream area of Nepal and India leading to …
