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 …
Even as relief work continues in areas devastated by the tsunami, the corpus of the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund has quietly swelled to around Rs 500 crore. The money is said to be the largest corpus ever collected through the fund. This is just money that has been sent …
Searching through the rubble of his home for anything still whole, Laksmiah Poleh can see life's options quite clearly. He can give up and move his family back to their home state on the mainland and, if he's lucky, find work as a tenant farmer making Rs 1,700 a month. …
Bells jingled, colourful carnivals spread cheer; Asia was filled with festivity, as the people celebrated the Nativity of Jesus Christ. The festival of joy had just begun. But death was just hours away. When the most powerful earthquake in more than 40 years struck deep under the Indian Ocean, the …
When the tsunami waves lashed the eastern coast, the Government of India seemed as much at sea as the people affected by the disaster. Information just did not move out of Delhi to the disaster areas. But more than a week later, the administration seems to have found its feet. …
The archipelago of the Andaman and Nicobar islands consists of 572 islands; 35 are known to be inhabited. These are home to five tribes. The Jarawas, Sentinelese and Onges are Negrito tribes. The Andamanese have ceased to be a tribe and a pure-blood Andamanese is a rarity. The remaining two …
On January 4, the government announced that 901 people died and 6,010 were missing in the tsunami that hit Andaman and Nicobar islands on December 26. That cannot even be a half-truth. Samir Acharya, secretary of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology, said that according to four Nicobarese tribal …
amid predictions of severe natural calamities in future, the Tripura government recently constituted disaster management teams at the village panchayat level and introduced disaster management as a subject in schools. Although the Union government's directive for the initiation of a panchayat level disaster preparedness programme dates back to 2002, it …
Gordon Brown launched Britain's campaign for a Marshall plan for Africa when he called on the international community to harness the "passion of compassion" generated by the Asian tsunami disaster to make 2005 a breakthrough year for the world's poorest continent. Unveiling the government's three-pronged plan for greater debt relief, …
As Asia prepares to rebuild itself after the killer wave, it will take a lot more than just political bickering to prevent a similar situation from recurring The Tsunami that has caused havoc across several South Asian countries has taken a human toll of more than 125,000, a figure that …
This video explains measures Japan took to prevent natural disasters. The video discusses barriers, embankments, dams, early warning systems, satellites, standard building codes, etc. Education plays an important role in disaster reduction in the future. Initiatives like community walks and children contests are shown. The video ends by showing examples …
An empirical model for predicting the maximum surface wind speed associated with a tropical cyclone after crossing the east coast of India is described. The model parameters are determined from the database of 19 cyclones. The model is based upon the assumption that tropical cyclone winds decay exponentially after landfall. …
Rainfall and maximum and minimum temperature data of 32 years (1970-2001) at Semiliguda, Koraput (Orissa) were analysed to study the weekly, monthly and yearly drought investigation by studying the water balance. The IMD method was adjusted more suitable for drought identification than the revised IMD method. Frequency analysis was done …
To tackle the problem of foggy conditions disrupting flight schedules in winter, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has installed the CAT (Category) III A instrument landing system (ILS) at the Delhi airport.
Rubble from the landslide that occurred 10 months ago on the Varunavat mountain in Uttarkashi threatens to swamp the town during this monsoon. Debris on the slope of the crumbling Varunavat mountain. Uttarkashi town is seen at the foothills. IN the first week of July, the worst fears of the …
With the monsoon yet to run its course, north Bengal, where the rivers are already in spate, lives in fear. THE recent floods in north Bengal, which affected over one lakh people and rendered more than 70,000 homeless, might just be a warning. Incessant rain since the first week of …
As northern Bihar reels under heavy floods, the worst in a decade, the State government struggles hard to take relief to the people. THE flood that ravaged the northern districts of Bihar in July is arguably the worst in the past decade. According to unconfirmed reports, around 150 people lost …
Every year the Brahmaputra and its tributaries bring death and destruction to Assam. Yet, there is no long-term plan to tackle floods in the State. AS 50-year-old Madan Kalita, was trying to reach a safe place on a small country boat with his wife and son through the surging floodwaters …
