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 …
Development takes a backseat as states combat extreme weather spending on disaster management has exceeded spending on agriculture and rural development in some states. A World Bank report said extreme weather events like floods, cyclones and droughts forced Maharashtra, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh to spend more on relief and damages …
Sunderbans islanders are caught between a shameless North and a callous South THE district administration in southern West Bengal got the warning for Aila, the cyclone to hit Sagar Island, about 20 hours in advance
Bangladesh proposed for UN recognition to a new group of Climatically Vulnerable Nations for fast tracking international assistance to them as global climate change is subjecting them to environmental havoc. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Hasan Mahmud, who is attending a two-day Global Humanitarian Forum 2009 on climate change …
More than 400 tsunami-affected families in Kalmunai, Ampara who lost their homes in the tsunami waves moved in to new houses in two apartment complexes in Periyaneelavani and at the Road Development Department and Irrigation Department housing complex. The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society initiated projects, built with funding and …
Tens of thousands of mobile users in Bangladesh's flood and cyclone-prone areas will now receive advance warning of an impending natural disaster through an alert on their cell phones, a government official says. Bangladesh -- one of the world's most densely populated countries -- is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, …
This new initiative will alert people on their phones, informing them that they are likely to face flooding or a cyclone. The message would flash automatically on the screen of their mobile phone sets. Tens of thousands of mobile users in Bangladesh
In the wake of the monsoon havoc, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has asked the City agencies to prepare a Monsoon Management Plan for the upcoming rainy season. In a marathon three-hour meeting held on Wednesday evening, suggestions put forth by the Agenda for Bengaluru Infrastructure Development (ABIDe) were reviewed.
The government has began an agriculture rehabilitation programme for more than four lakh small, poor and marginal farmers at a cost of nearly Taka 32 crore with the aim of getting over the losses caused by the devastating cyclone Aila last month. The agriculture ministry sources said the government would …
"The trends in disasters, particularly from climate change, are of enormous concern," said John Holmes, U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs. "We can only expect that this kind of trend is going to continue," he told a news conference. Holmes was speaking at the start of a four-day Global Platform for …
The Nalbari district administration has put the district disaster management team on a high alert to tackle any situation that may arise in the district during the flood season. Talking to this Correspondent, F Ahmed, in-charge of District Disaster Risk Management Programme, said that the district administration had formed disaster …
Training programme for government officials held in Thanjavur ON SPECIFIC STEPS: M. Karunakaran, DRO, speaking at a seminar on disaster risk management in Thanjavur on Wednesday. Suresh Mariaselvam, disaster risk management consultant (right), is in the picture. THANJAVUR: Disaster management has come a long way from being
An action plan is being chalked out in the state for flood relief and rescue at the district level. If the flood situation arises in any district during the ensuing monsoon, the administration of the concerning district can act as per the action plan speedily and effectively. As many as …
P.V. Srividya PREVENTION IS BETTER: Suresh Mariaselvam, disaster risk management consultant, speaking at a seminar in Nagapattinam Collectorate on Friday NAGAPATTINAM: Decades of development is devastated in a minute-long disaster. This was reiterated at the District Risk Management Programme organised by the State Government and supported by the United Nations …
The users of Grameenphone (GP) and state-owned TeleTalk in Cox's Bazar and Sirajganj will receive from now on early warning message about impending natural disasters in a bid to reduce damages to life and property. Disaster Management Bureau (DMB) signed separate memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with the two mobile phone …
Ravik Bhattacharjee Posted: Friday , Jun 05, 2009 at 0145 hrs IST Gosaba (South 24 Parganas): In her address to Parliament on Thursday, President Pratibha Patil promised that the Government would provide
Pranesh Sarkar KOLKATA, 2 JUNE: A report filed by a senior bureaucrat on the supply of relief materials in the cyclone-hit South 24-Parganas has virtually demolished the tall claim of state disaster management minister, Mr Mortaza Hossain, in the matter. Mr Hossain had yesterday claimed that relief materials had reached …
