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 …
Jaipur: Cold wave conditions aggravated in the state for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday when majority of the places in the state witnessed its minimum temperature below the normal notch. Jaipur Met office in its forecast said that there would be no respite from the shivering cold conditions for …
A 35-year-old man died in MP's Raisen district as intense cold wave tightened its grip over MP and neighbouring states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra with reports of ground frost damaging crops in several areas. The victim was identified as Kamal Kishore, a farmer from Sultanpur area. Sources said he …
Authorities warn number of victims to increase as thousands are forced from their homes by the bad weather. The death toll from flash floods and landslides caused by torrential rains due to a tropical depression in the eastern Philippines has jumped to at least 68, officials have said, warning that …
Dehradun: The on-going cold wave conditions across Uttarakhand are going to continue for at least another couple of days with mercury hovering below normal limits in both hills and plains in the hilly state. Matela in Almora district remained the coldest place in Uttarakhand after recording a minimum temperature at …
NEW DELHI: The capital recorded a minimum of 5 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, with coldwave-like conditions continuing in the region. And going by the forecast by IMD, Delhi is all set get even colder in the next few days with minimum temperature falling to around three degrees. IMD officials said …
The upward trend in the mercury marked a dip on Monday when the night temperature settled at 5.3 degrees Celsius, down from the previous night's 6.7 degrees Celsius, a Meteorological department (Met) spokesperson said. Dal lake partially froze on Tuesday, a day after Jammu-Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar recorded its coldest …
Rescuers in Indonesia are using drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors after a powerful tsunami devastated the shorelines of the islands of Java and Sumatra and killed more than 400 people. Military and volunteer teams on Tuesday deployed drones to assess the extent of the damage along the …
At least 429 people have died in Saturday's tsunami, while at least 128 are still missing. The death toll from the tsunami that hit Indonesian islands without warning on Saturday night has passed 400 with more than 1,400 people injured. Thousands of people were left homeless when the waves smashed …
Megacities are predominantly concentrated along coastlines, making them exposed to a diverse mix of natural hazards. The assessment of climatic hazard risk to cities rarely has captured the multiple interactions that occur in complex urban systems. We present an improved method for urban multi-hazard risk assessment. We then analyze the …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Drought Prone Areas, 18/12/2018. During 2018-19 the State Governments of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Gujarat and Rajasthan have submitted Memorandums in the wake of drought during Kharif. Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (IMCTs) have been consisted to visit all these drought affected States to assess …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Loss Due to Natural Disasters, 18/12/2018. Various parts of in the country have been affected by natural calamities including earthquake, cyclone and floods in the recent decades. The damage and losses due to natural disasters are primarily assessed by the concerned State Government, as …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Loss Due to Flood and Thunderstorm, 11/12/2018. State-wise details of the losses of lives, property and loss of crops due to floods and thunderstorm during the current year, as reported by the State Governments/ Union Territories, are at Annexure-I. State-wise details of the memoranda …
This paper investigates the effects of multiple weather shocks on household welfare in Mozambique, as well as some of the coping responses and price mechanisms at play. The analysis employs a triple-difference strategy that exploits variation in the shocks across space, time, and cropping cycles. The findings demonstrate high levels …
In 2013 INFORM started to develop and publish a Global Crisis Risk Index. Since that time, INFORM has become a multi-stakeholder forum for developing shared analysis to help to manage humanitarian crises and disasters. INFORM now has partners from across the UN system, donors, civil society, academic/technical community and private …
In this first Annual Report, the InsuResilience Global Partnership for Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance highlights the initiatives that the different actors worked on towards the Partnership’s vision. That is, 25 programs were supported in 78 countries by the commitments made in the context of the Partnership. This …
This 2018 interim report updates and expands upon mitigation measures studied in 2005 by evaluating a broad suite of mitigation measures that can inform decision-making around investments to reduce the impacts of natural hazards. The report includes the work of the team for the past two year and compiles the …
Torrential rain and gale force winds lashed Australia’s biggest city of Sydney on Wednesday causing commuter chaos, flooding streets, railway stations and homes, grounding flights and leaving hundreds of people without electricity. Police called on motorists to stay off the roads. One person was killed in a car crash and …
Some villagers in one of Zimbabwe's driest areas are appealing for food and fear their livestock, their source of livelihoods, will die due to a lack of water. The World Food Program is asking for funds to ensure food stability during the country's 'lean season.' In the dry Matabeleland region, …
Floods destroyed more than 400 hectares of rice in Niger's southeastern Diffa region, already beset by deadly attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, the local governor said. Nearly 3 000 tons of rice worth more than $1.13 million have been lost as a result, Governor Mahamadou Bakabe said on state television …
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said no effort should be spared to help victims of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Iran’s western border with Iraq that injured more than 700 people, most suffering minor wounds, state television reported on Monday. The Sunday night earthquake was felt in at least seven provinces …
