The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
NEW DELHI: With Delhi having received just 141.8 mm of rainfall till August 10 this year as against the normal average of 394.7 mm, which marks a deficiency of 64 per cent, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Naresh Kumar has met Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and demanded that the …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: With a 28 per cent deficiency in monsoon, and the sown area under paddy, oilseeds and sugarcane lower than last year, the kharif foodgrains production is expected to fall sharply. According to experts, the loss of about six million hectares in paddy sowing in the rain-fed …
About 180 nations met for U.N. climate talks on Monday amid warnings that time was running out for them to reach agreement on a hugely complex pact, due for completion at the end of the year. About 2,400 delegates at the Aug 10-14 negotiations in Bonn will try to shorten …
ANAND S.T. DAS The Bihar government on Monday declared 26 of the state's total 38 districts as drought affected following a close assessment of the crop situation in every district and growing pressure from the Opposition parties to make such a declaration. The official declaration, made after a Cabinet meeting …
HYDERABAD: The Centre will soon announce a major policy decision and a package of new initiatives to help farmers in the drought-hit parts across India, said Union Minister of State for Rural Development Sisir Kumar Adhikari. The package was likely to include subsidised electricity and/or diesel to help farmers run …
Activists of Bharatiya Kissan Sangha, district unit staged a protest here on Monday, demanding to make arrangement to combat dry spell and also for the fulfilment of their various demands, in front of assistant commissioner
Hyderabad, Aug. 10 With drought-like situation prevailing in most parts of the country, the Union Government is fine-tuning a special policy initiative within the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
Kaustubh Kulkarni / Pune/mumbai/new Delhi August 11, 2009, 0:25 IST After being in denial mode, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) today pared its forecast for a second time in three months and said state governments were free to announce
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Dr Anil Kakodkar on Sunday said the climate would become more erratic in the coming years, with rapid change expected. He was speaking at a national symposium on the
The Andhra Pradesh Government should make efforts in right earnest to take up drought relief measures in the State, as the situation is getting worse by the day, said Dr Y. Sivaji, a former member of the Rajya Sabha and also the honorary president of the AP Tobacco Growers
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: As the spectre of drought looms large over crucial rice-growing States and parts of the northeast, Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar has convened a meeting of the Chief Secretaries of the States and Union Territories here on Saturday. The meeting will assess the requirements of the States …
District JD(S) student unit has urged the government to declare the district as drought- hit district, as it has not received rain. The activists of the unit said that sowing operation has not been completed even in the 10 per cent of the agricultural land, in the district. In the …
THE large-scale destruction unleashed by the Kosi river last year is still fresh in the minds of the people and, not surprisingly, when the river Bagmati breached its embankment at Runisaidpur in Sitamarhi district on Saturday, it created a scare which many felt would only compound the problems of the …
Several schemes have been adopted by the district administration of Golaghat with the cooperation of the Agriculture Department for the farmers of the drought-affected areas of the district. A scheme was inaugurated on July 8 in the areas of Chaudangpather Gaon Panchayat under Gomariguri Development Block, Merapani. The scheme was …
AMITA VERMA The entire Opposition on Monday traded charges with the Mayawati government on "inadequate relief measures in droughtaffected areas". The Opposition accused the Mayawati government of being insensitive towards the prevailing conditions in drought-hit areas while the ruling BSP accused Opposition parties of playing politics on the issue. As …
With monsoon playing truant, a spectre of drought looms large over Andhra Pradesh, triggering fears of large scale rural unemployment and fall in agricultural production. For Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, who never misses an opportunity to claim that the
Dharamsala: As the state has been declared drought hit, the government has decided to give a surcharge tax waiver on agriculture as compensation to farmers. However, according to the data collected by the Revenue Department, the loss due to drought in Kangra district had been Rs 199 crore, including loss …
The state government constituted a Rapid Response Team in drought-affected districts to monitor the availability of food and medicines and fodder for animal. State Revenue Minister Phagu Chauhan has been entrusted with the job to ensure that no one dies of drought.
