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 …
Restaurant chains must now list the calorie content of the food they sell IN JANUARY New York became the first American city to pass a law requiring restaurant chains to state the number of calories in everything on their menus, right down to the last pretzel. Full enforcement of the …
Heavy downpour worsened the flood situation in Sylhet, Sunamganj and Netrakona while river erosion has taken a serious turn for the worse in Nilphamari due to swilling of the Teesta. Around 1 lakh people are said to be marooned in Netrakona. The situation is likely to worsen in the next …
LUCKNOW,Aug. 29: After Bihar, Uttar Pradesh is preparing to face the fury of floods. Almost all the major rivers in the state, including Gomti, Sharda and Kuwano are in spate following torrential rains over the past several days. According to official sources, some of the rivers have crossed the danger …
Vietnam will spend nearly 2.4 trillion dong (US$145 million) between now and 2010 to build dykes and relocate thousands of rice farmers because of heavy seasonal flooding in its fertile Mekong river delta. The programme, approved early this week, would help 33,000 families resettle in areas away from landslides and …
Abantika Ghosh | TNN New Delhi: Exactly two decades ago, the apology of a river that flows through Delhi had inundated it, leaving 20 people dead. Old timers recall how the top of the gigantic Hanuman statue near Kashmere Gate was the only thing visible above the waters. Even as …
OUR CORRESPONDENT The railway tracks hang over the Kabli Jhora near Madhu Tea Estate. (Anirban Choudhury) Alipurduar, Aug. 28: A section of the railway tracks in Kalchini has been left hanging in the air after the soil beneath it was washed away by the Kabli Jhora, which suddenly changed course …
K. Balchand Nowhere to go: A goods train halting at a station in flooded North Bihar on Wednesday. The station, where many people have taken refuge, is completely cut off from the rest of the State. PATNA: With flood waters swamping more areas in Bihar, the race is to prevent …
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has announced it is mobilising emergency food assistance for 50,000 people displaced by floods in the eastern Terai districts. "The emergency operation is in response to a Government of Nepal request after monsoon rains caused an embankment of the Saptakoshi River to collapse, flooding …
Food riots as Indian floods destroy 250,000 homes PATNA, India (Reuters) - Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and about 250,000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years. One person …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi August 28, 2008, 0:18 IST Bihar seeks Rs 1,000 crore and 100,000 tonnes of foodgrain immediately. Work to fill the nearly two-and-a-half kilometre breach in the Kosi barrage embankment has begun with the help of initial supplies from the Farrakka barrage. The breach has caused …
Business Standard / New Delhi August 28, 2008, 5:58 IST Floods, often deemed mistakenly as natural disasters, are the result mostly of human misadventure in the river catchments, and the neglect of water systems. The catastrophe caused by the turbulent Kosi river in north Bihar, after breaching its embankment at …
Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and about 250,000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years. One person was killed in Madhepura district when angry villagers fought among themselves over …
Hyderabad, Aug. 27: Experts of IIT Mumbai have asked the government to put in a place a disaster management plan for the city since floods would become common owing to climate change. They were speaking at a meeting organised by the GHMC to tackle floods and water stagnation. Hyderabad, which …
Nitish not serious about relief: Raghuvansh NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that the floods in Bihar be declared a national calamity. It urged the Prime Minister to intervene to ensure that the Army and the Air Force came to the rescue of lakhs of people who were …
K. Balchand Over 2 million affected as flood situation worsens in Bihar Flood fury: A rail track swept away by floodwaters in Madhepura district of Bihar on Tuesday. PATNA: The Army on Tuesday joined the rescue operations in the flood-hit Bihar, where over two million people are reeling under its …
Bs Reporter / New Delhi August 27, 2008, 5:53 IST Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will visit New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow to ask for help to deal with what he terms "a catastrophe.' The chief minister, who is also the disaster management minister of the …
A storm pounded the capital on Monday night, causing massive traffic jams and flooding key intersections across the city. The rain flooded a gorge close to the club in a wealthy neighborhood and the water rose more than 7 feet high (2.5 meters), drowning the animals inside the stables. The …
The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MoAC) said on Tuesday that the devastating flood caused by the Saptakoshi River breaching its embankment damaged crops worth Rs 300 million in Sunsari district. A week-long field assessment conducted by an M0AC team shows that paddy cultivation suffered the biggest loss of Rs …
The Kosi river in north Bihar plains, eastern India presents a challenge in terms of long and recurring flood hazard. Despite a long history of flood control management in the basin for more than 5 decades, the river continues to bring a lot of misery through extensive flooding. This paper …
A 13km-wide current flowing at enormous speed over a stretch of 100km. Over a million people have lost their crops, land and homes. It could get worse Subodh Varma New Delhi: Every once in a while, nature reminds humans that it is the boss. The Kosi river, which gathers water …
