The Disaster Management Centre at Anuradhapura has given flood warnings to residents near Kala Oya tank in Anuradhapura. The Anuradhapura District Disaster Management Coordinators yesterday said the people in the areas around Kala Oya have been asked to vacate flood-prone areas to avoid potential risks. Director General of the Disaster …
Heavy rains during the past few days created havoc in 10 districts causing immense hardships to people in the area. As a result of this natural calamity, eight persons have died and six injured, two each from Bibile and Passara. One death was reported from Haputale and three from Divulapitiya …
A clear picture on the status of damage caused by the present spell of heavy rain in the State, particularly in the southern districts, is likely to emerge by Tuesday evening when reports of the Collectors of the respective districts reach the government. As the rain has abated, the Collectors, …
A Central team will visit Kerala later this week to make an on-the-spot assessment of the damage caused to standing crop by the rains that lashed the State over the past week, killing 14 people. This was disclosed here on Monday by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Union Agriculture …
The prominent rivers of Bihar all originating from Nepal and entering into Bihar, are adversely affected sands-play resulting from flood. In Nepal these rivers have very steep slope and acquire scouring velocity. Thus the water flowing down carries a lot of silt and sand. Theses silts are deposited in the …
The unusually-heavy rains over Tamil Nadu and other parts of southern peninsula may have been caused by La Nina and the positive phase of southern oscillation (SO), global scale circulation features. La Nina, the opposite of El Nino, pertains to the anomalous decline in the temperature of the central tropical …
SPOT ASSESSMENT: Local Administration Minister, M.K. Stalin, inspecting rain-affected areas at Desigapuram in Virudhunagar district on Sunday. (Right) Vaigai river has copious flow of water due to opening up of sluices of the dam following heavy rain in catchment areas. VIRUDHUNAGAR: The State government has undertaken flood relief works on …
Incessant rain claimed five lives and caused an extensive damage to standing crops, mostly paddy, over thousands of hectares in the southern districts on Sunday. People residing along river banks and in low-lying areas were instructed to move to safety as water level in major reservoirs was reaching full capacity. …
The heavy rain over the past one week and more has claimed more lives and caused further crop loss across the State. Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan visited the rain-hit kole paddy lands in Thrissur district on Sunday and assured the farmers of all possible assistance. Three persons were killed in …
Several parts of Karnataka have been receiving unseasonable rain damaging a variety of summer crops and forcing people to remain indoors in urban areas. Though the rain that has been occurring in the southern and coastal parts of the State intermittently for the past week has brought down the rising …
Widespread heavy rain, caused by an upper air cyclonic trough, lashed the State for the second day on Sunday, claiming six lives and extensively damaging standing crops in several districts. Five of the casualties were from Kurnool district, while one death occurred in Hyderabad. Three persons were killed at Pesaravai …
A severe cyclonic storm hit Badarpur at midnight on Friday. The storm damaged a large numbers of houses, trees, electric posts, telephone wires etc in the town and adjacent villages. As a result, entire Badarpur circle has been badly affected with the entire town still under complete darkness. The condition …
Ninety per cent of natural disasters are weather, climate and water related, Meteorology Department Director G. B. Samarasinghe said. "Socio-economic growth in developing countries are severely hampered due to such disasters, just because enormous amount of money that could be allocated for development is spent on rehabilitation and reconstruction instead,' …
Heavy rains are wreaking havoc in north Telangana districts with standing crops getting damaged resulting in huge losses to the farmers. The initial crop losses were estimated at around Rs 50 crore in Warangal and the crops in an estimated area of 40,000 acre have got damaged. In almost all …
More than three years after the devastating tsunami hit the Tamil Nadu coast, rehabilitation measures are still underway. District Collector Jyothi Nirmala announced Rs 112 crore as extension of revolving funds and loans for self-help groups (SHGs), industrial and entrepreneur training, upgrading basic amenities in tsunami-affected areas and construction of …
China's northwestern region of Xinjiang was hit by a major earthquake and several strong aftershocks early Friday, the country's official media and earthquake monitoring centers reported. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damages in the sparsely populated, mountainous region inhabited by people of minority ethnic groups, mostly Uygurs. …
At least eight people were killed and nearly 200,000 people have been affected due to torrential rain resulting from the north-east monsoon in the country. The deaths have been reported from Badulla, Moneragala and Gampha districts during the last few days,. Around 44,600 families consisting of 173,909 have been affected, …
At the time of destructive floods, the distress of affected people attracts attention but, unfortunately, as soon as the flood waters recede they are forgotten. A recent visit to several flood-affected villages of Bihar made it very clear that the flood-affected people are still suffering. March 2008
A hailstorm swept through eight villages of Monohardi upazila of the district on Monday night, leaving a man dead and 50 others injured. The dead was identified as Sahabuddin, 50, a quack of Goribhanga village of the upazila. Sources said Sahabuddin was injured seriously when a tree fell on him …
