Report filed by the Forest and Wildlife Department, Kerala in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Suo Motu based on the news item published in the Hindu, Chennai edition paper dated 30/07/2024 titled "Wayanad landslides live updates: 54 killed, over 100 feared missing in Kerala hill station; relief …
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Monday sought an immediate sanction of `2,351 crores from the Centre for flood relief in the state. Ms Mayawati, who met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday evening, claimed that the Centre has not provided any assistance to the state for flood relief so …
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is to meet the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday to seek a special package for flood-hit districts of the state. Ms Mayawati would be meeting the Prime Minister after a long gap of more than a year, as she had met Dr Manmohan Singh …
Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow October 07, 2010, 0:56 IST Uttar Pradesh government has demanded an immediate Central financial assistance of Rs 2,351 crore to overcome the damages caused by recent floods. Besides, the state has urged the Centre to dispatch a team to UP to assess the flood situation …
Chandigarh: After conducting an aerial survey of flood-affected area in the state, Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announced a relief package of Rs 117 crore for Jhajjar district. Farmers will be given a compensation up to Rs 5,500 per acre for the crops damaged by the floods, said …
The United Nations asked member states Friday for $2 billion to help Pakistan recover from massive floods that have displaced millions of people, the largest natural disaster appeal in U.N. history. The appeal folds in an August 11 call for $460 million. The money is intended to cover the needs …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday announced Rs 500-crore relief assistance to flood-hit Uttarakhand, a day after Congress president Sonia Gandhi requested him for a liberal package to the state. The advance interim assistance would be in addition to the money given on Tuesday for the State Disaster Response Fund, …
Congress presi dent Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and asked him to provide a liberal Central assistance to deal with the worst floodaffected areas of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. She spoke to the Prime Minister after making an aerial survey of the floodaffected areas. Mrs …
Ravish Tiwari New Delhi: A day after Uttarakhand chief minister raised alarm bells over overflowing Tehri reservoir, the Union Cabinet secretary on Monday took stock of the situation during a high level meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee. The committee is learnt to have asked concerned central government agencies …
Neena Vyas NEW DELHI: A Bharatiya Janata party delegation here on Monday demanded in a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that Uttarakhand be declared disaster-struck and given a package of Rs. 5000 crore. At least 150 people have already lost their lives. In the unprecedented situation caused by incessant …
Anita Joshua ISLAMABAD: Moved by Pakistan's decision to continue providing refuge to the 1.7 million Afghan refugees living here despite the devastating floods, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres on Thursday said:
Union Minister of Steel Virbhadra Singh today opined that there was a need to ban export of iron ore. Rather export of value added products should be encouraged. He was addressing a gathering at the CII Steel Mart 2010 at CII, Sector 31 today. The minister said that against the …
Floods in the Indus, triggered by the heavy monsoon rain, devastate vast swathes of land and render millions homeless in Pakistan. MOVING at a furious pace from the mountainous north-western region of Gilgit-Baltistan to the fertile south, the Indus river, swollen and bursting its banks following heavy monsoon rain since …
The day Irrigation Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui held a meeting of his department asking officials to control floods, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came down heavily on the BSP Government saying the state government was not doing enough to provide relief to the flood victims. "State's irrigation minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui has …
The swell of militant groups engaged in flood relief has everyone jittery When the mighty Indus swelled and spilled over its banks, gradually inundating nearly 20 per cent of Pakistan, teeming millions from decrepit towns and remote hamlets scampered away to safety. There were some, though, who were seen trekking …
Srinagar: The Punjab government on Thursday announced a relief of Rs 1 crore for the rehabilitation of cloudburst and flash flood victims of Leh district in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet was informed on Wednesday that economic losses inflicted by the floods were estimated at $43 billion, almost equal to the expenditures incurred on the war on terror over the past nine years. The floods have affected 79 of the 124 districts
After deciding to route assistance to flood devastated Pakistan through the United Nations, India has increased its contribution to $ 25 million from the initial pledge of $ 5 million that was offered earlier this month. In a statement in Lok Sabha, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said that given …
