The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Guwahati: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Monday announced an ad-hoc financial assistance of Rs 500 crore to flood-ravaged Assam, where floods and landslides have claimed 81 lives so far. The PM made the announcement here after making an extensive aerial survey of flood induced damages in three districts of …
The death toll in the Assam floods has gone up to 61, while landslips have claimed the lives of 16. Besides, 10 others were reported missing in four districts. Of the 16 landslip deaths, 10 died in the city and six in Dima Hasao district. An earthquake of5.8 magnitude, with …
Guwahati: The current wave of flood in Assam has so far claimed 61 lives while another 16 persons were killed in rain-triggered landslides in Kamrup and Dima Hasao districts. Ten persons have been reported missing due to flood that affected 23 of the total of 27 districts in the state, …
GUWAHATI, June 29 – The landslides taking place in the city hills are mainly man-made. The soil of the city hills lack the binding capacity and due to the greed and ignorance of the land hungry people who are occupying the hills the natural slope of repose is not maintained …
Floods triggered by strong rainfall that has been battering many parts of China since June 20 have left 50 people dead and 42 missing, new figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs have showed. According to the ministry, more than 10.4 million people have been affected by downpours in 399 …
Torrential rains in mountainous southwest China triggered a mudslide that left about 40 workers building a hydroelectric dam missing on Thursday, state media reported. The mudslide occurred overnight Wednesday in Sichuan province’s Ningnan county and as of midday (0400 GMNT) Thursday rescue workers were unable to contact the work camp …
Seven persons were killed in Jamune-1, Tanahu district on Thursday night after their houses were swept away in landslides triggered by constant rainfall for the past few days. The victims have been identified as Rupa BK, 24, and her daughters Purnima BK, 8, and Devimaya BK, 6, according to District …
About 2,400 passengers of four trains were stranded due to landslips at over 50 locations along the Lumding-Badarpur hill section of southern Assam’s Dima Hasao (erstwhile North Cachar Hills) district since the early hours of Tuesday. The trains were stranded at three places in the hill section. The Up Cachar …
More than 55 people have been killed in landslides in southeast Bangladesh after three days of rains that triggered flash floods and severed transport links, officials said on Wednesday. The army has been deployed to help with search and rescue efforts in the affected hill region of Chittagong, said the …
pinned on the Army’s 3rd Mountain Regiment to evacuate the flood victims with mechanized motor boats came to naught on Tuesday as the team placed one after another demands and ultimately failed to launch rescue operation on the pretext of inclement weather and turbulent current. Itanagar: While Chief Minister Nabam …
Nearly 2,500 passengers in four trains have been stranded at three places on the metre guage Assam Hill Section since Monday midnight following landslides at numerous spots that were triggered off by incessant heavy downpour in the Dima Hasao district. Officials in the Northeast Frontier Railway divisional headquarters at Lumding …
Incessant rainfall in Assam has led to worsening of the flood situation in the State on Wednesday triggering fresh inundation and landslides in 23 districts that left 10 more dead, taking the toll in this wave of floods to 20. While a woman and her two children were buried in …
About 40 workers at a power station went missing in a rain-triggered mudslide Thursday morning in southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to local authorities. The disaster occurred at 6:14 am at the construction zone of Baihetan power station located in Ningnan County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, said a spokesman with …
At least 100 people have died and 250,000 left stranded by flash floods and landslides in Bangladesh set off by the heaviest rain in years, police and officials said on Wednesday. The low-lying and densely populated country, which is in its wet season, has been battered by five days of …
One person died in Gumdi VDC, Gajuri after his store house collapsed in landslides triggered by constant rainfall. Fifteen houses and three schools have also crumbled to the ground in various parts of the district. Police told RSS Jumansingh Gurung, 68, of Chimchok in Gumdi VDC died as the paddy …
Rescue workers equipped only with hand-held tools gave up their search on Tuesday and waited for bulldozers to help find about 100 people who residents said were missing the day after landslides struck the mountainous eastern district of Bududa. A government official called the region a “death trap” and said …
At least 15 people were killed in landslides in Chittagong and Cox's Bazar amid heavy downpour yesterday, with much of the port city going under knee-deep to waist-deep water. Eleven of the victims -- five of them children aged between two and 12 -- died in separate landslides in different …
The flood situation in Assam has suddenly turned from bad to worse overnight with the Brahmaputra damaging embankments and inundating over 200 villages, affecting over 1.5 lakh people in just two districts. The authorities have already pressed in the Army and the IAF in addition to the National Disaster Response …
At least 18 people were killed in eastern Uganda on Monday after a landslide buried several settlements in a coffee-growing area on the slopes of Mount Elgon straddling the Kenyan border, the Uganda Red Cross said. A local member of parliament, David Wakikona, told Reuters that up to 100 people …
Kohima: Normal life was affected and property worth Rs 20 lakh got damaged in landslides triggered by sporadic heavy to medium rainfall throughout Nagaland for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday. According to sources here, four houses were washed away in a heavy landslides on the night of June 22 …
