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 The floods have claimed 20 lives so far even as the situation in central Assam, Majuli river island and Kaziranga National Park remained grim and further deteriorated on Thursday. The Assam government sources said that the situation worsened on Thursday as the Dikrong breached embankment at Morisapathar, Ahomgaon area …
NEW DELHI The National Crisis Management Committee headed by the Cabinet secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar reviewed the flood situation in Bihar on Thursday even as rescue and relief measures continued. As many as 37 Army columns, 13 helicopters, 599 boats, 783 NDRF personnel, 7695 tents, 10 satellite phones, 4 lakh drinking …
Certain cross bundhs in Sutlej caused breaches in it near Gidderpindi village. Sources said a group of engineers sent by Punjab government to probe the breaches, had concluded cross bundhs impeded free flow of Sutlej at some places near Gidderpindi, leading to breaches in embankments of defence bundhs of Sutlej. …
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is to provide US$ 500,000 to increase rice production in conflict and flood affected districts of Sri Lanka. In a press release yesterday, the FAO said it has approved the funding for the project "Input supply to vulnerable populations under Initiative …
The flooding in the central part of the country, including Dhaka, deteriorated further as the rivers flowing over the region continue to swell on Thursday. Flood experts also forecasted inundation of more low lying areas in Chandpur, Sirajganj, Tangail, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Faridpur, Madaripur and Shariatpur, Dohar and Nawabganj upazilas in …
Yamuna in spate, people leave homes four drown in Yamuna in separate incidents2010 Games: govt goes green, will procure 10 ...Residents protest police apathy, SSP suspends... New Delhi, September 4 The Yamuna could have been tamed this monsoon, experts say, if the Centre and the Delhi government had carefully gone …
Sadanand Menon / New Delhi September 05, 2008, 0:14 IST The jacketing or embanking of the river systems in north Bihar must go down as among the most ill-thought out schemes in Independent India. I am talking about the so-called
The Netherlands must spend nearly 2 billion euros (US$2.9 billion) annually in the coming decades to protect low-lying areas from coastal flooding, the Dutch government said on Wednesday. With sea levels projected to climb as much as 1.3 metres (4 ft 3 in) this century and another 2 to 4 …
JORHAT, Sept 3: The centenary Kaziranga National Park has lost four hog deer and a rhino calf in the current spell of floods which hit its ranges on August 22. About 50 per cent of the total area of the conservation hotspot, abode of the one-horned rhino, has been submerged. …
BARPETA, Sept 3: As a result of continuous rainfall during the last 10 days, the flood situation in Barpeta district remains grim. With Brahmaputra and its major tributaries flowing above the danger level the flood situation in the district continued to assume dangerous propositions. According to the Water Resource Department …
Disaster management experts at an international seminar yesterday underscored the need for developing monthly and seasonal flood forecasting technologies for agricultural planning and management, as climatic changes are likely to affect agriculture badly. They also suggested validating and disseminating the already developed know-how of forecasting flood ten days ahead and …
Sushanta Talukdar Majuli remains worst hit as level of flood water continues to rise Vast tracts of land, standing crops destroyed Thousands continue to take shelter in relief camps Guwahati: Over ten lakh people have been affected by floods in Assam with the situation in Majuli turning critical on Tuesday …
BJP appeals to people to donate generously for the victims, constitutes disaster fund AWAY FROM DELUGE: A family from flood-hit Madhepura district of Bihar arrives at New Delhi railway station on Tuesday to begin a new life in the Capital. NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to …
Samudra Gupta Kashyap Guwahati, September 2: Brahmaputra has already submerged 60 per cent of Kaziranga National Park. However, thanks to the efforts of the conservation and protection staff and volunteers, the world-famous rhino habitat has been able to put up a brave fight against floods.
State To Undertake Massive Vaccination Drive, Asks Centre For 1L Vials Of Vaccine Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Spurred by fears of a measles outbreak in the flood-affected districts of Bihar, the state health department has decided to undertake a massive vaccination drive against the highly contagious viral disease …
BY RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Water expert D.K. Mishra, who has been studying the Kosi river from 1984, blames the Department of Water Resources (DWR) of the Bihar government for the devastating floods which have displaced more than two million people. Mr Mishra, who has written eight books on Bihar
