At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning crisis, according to a new UNICEF analysis released today. Heatwaves were the predominant climate hazard shuttering schools last year, with …
Pune The onset of southwest monsoon in the state is likely only after June 1. Though monsoon started in Kerala a week in advance, the cyclone Aila weakened the pressure. According to the Met officers, the cyclone has weakened the pressure of the monsoon winds and it will take atleast …
On Saturday, the India Meteorological Department declared that the monsoon had set in over Kerala more than a week ahead of its usual date. An early start to the rainy season will be especially welcome in this southern State where last year
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs 2 lakhs to the kin of each of those killed in the cyclone, which hit eastern part of the country, even as the Centre mobilised the disaster relief mechanism to meet the situation. Cyclone Aila spawned from a …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO, BHUBANESWAR Around 2,000 people were on Monday evacuated to safer places as turbulent tidal waves breached marine embankments at nines places, causing severe damage to human habitations and agricultural lands in villages under Rajnagar and Mahakalpara blocks in Orissa
Air services at the Kolkata airport collapsed like never before over the past two decades due to the impact of Cyclone Aila. Train services both in Howrah and Sealdah sections were also heavily disrupted. The air operations at the Kolkata airport were completely halted for over five hours due to …
At least 23 people were killed and more than 100,000 people hit, as a cyclone spawned by a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal pounded large parts of West Bengal and coastal Orissa today, leaving a trail of devastation and crippling normal life in the two states. However, the …
May 25: At least 20 people were killed and nearly two lakh left homeless in the south Bengal districts as winds flattened houses and rivers burst their banks. South 24-Parganas was the worst hit, recording 13 deaths. Army and BSF personnel have managed to shift some 80,000 people to safer …
Calcutta, May 25: At least 300 captive deer were swept away as the cyclone battered the fragile Sunderban mangroves and foresters were worried that there might have been heavy losses to wildlife. The deer washed away by the floodwaters were housed in two government-run breeding centres at Jharkhali and Bakkhali.
A cyclone slammed into parts of Bangladesh and eastern India on Monday, triggering tidal surges and flooding that forced some half a million people from their homes and killed almost three dozen people. Storm officials in coastal Bangladesh moved about 500,000 people to temporary shelters after they left their homes …
KENDRAPARA: Life was thrown out of gear in several parts of coastal Orissa due to heavy rains accompanied by gales today under the impact of a cyclonic storm, even as tidal waves lashed some areas. Incessant rain triggered by the depression submerged low-lying areas in the coastal districts of Jagatsinghpur …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Twenty-three persons were killed when a severe cyclonic storm accompanied by heavy rain brought by Cyclone Aila lashed the city and some districts of West Bengal on Monday. The death toll could be higher: reports from the districts were only coming in. Many people were injured. The …
Kolkata: A deep depression on the Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and slammed into the coastal belt of West Bengal on Monday, killing at least 23 people and rendering over 150,000 homeless. Cyclone Alia, with wind speed of about 100 km per hour, uprooted trees, disrupted …
RAMANATHAPURAM: The Pamban port authorities on Monday raised second stage cyclone warning doom at Pamban. This was based on information from the Indian Meteorological department about the cyclonic storm movement along the coast off Orrisa. The first stage warning signal was raised on Saturday. Port authorities said it was a …
The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal developed into a cyclone on Sunday but the weatherman said the storm, which was advancing towards the coast at 70-80km per hour, might miss Calcutta. At 5.30pm, cyclone Aila (name chosen from a list following a convention) was 500km south of Calcutta.
Thousands more people in Australia's flood-hit east were told to leave their homes on Saturday as gale-force winds lashed the coast and emergency services said up to 20,000 people had been cut off. One man has died and dozens have been rescued from rising waters after days of rain and …
Bangladesh said on Saturday a tropical storm was brewing in the Bay of Bengal and advised ports to hoist warning signals and asked all fishing boats and trawlers not to venture into deep seas. The meteorological department said the storm packing winds up to 50 km (31 miles) per hour …
