Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Inadequate infrastructure and weak logistic chains substantially increase the risk that an extreme natural event will become a disaster. This is a core finding of the World Risk Report 2016, which the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft - Gemeinsam für Menschen …
More than 3,000 Louisiana residents were still in emergency shelters as record flood waters receded on Monday, while government officials weighed options for temporary housing after the state's worst disaster since Hurricane Katrina. About 60,600 homes have been reported damaged or destroyed in flooding that swept through 20 parishes, or …
Varanasi: The rising Ganga and Varuna have inundated almost all localities along the rivers. On Saturday, about 3,000 people were taken away from the flood affected areas to relief camps running at 11 places. The situation in the 6 km stretch from Sarai Mohana to Sadar Tehsil along Varuna is …
As floodwaters receded Thursday, a week after torrential rains decimated parts of Louisiana, communities throughout the region turned themselves inside out: people dragged carpet, furniture, sheetrock into their yards, in a race to air out their homes before mold sets in. “Smell it?” said Justin Martinez as he and family …
The Japanese government has donated five million US dollars to help the World Food Programme (WFP) provide food assistance between September and November 2016 to over 300,000 drought-affected people in the four worst affected countries in southern Africa. Mozambique will receive the largest portion of this donation, with WFP using …
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, present this One Hundred and Ninety Eighth Report on 'Disaster in Chennai caused by torrential rainfall and consequent flooding in the Country'. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) the apex body, which functions under the administrative jurisdiction of the Ministry of Home …
Jaipur: Amid flood-like situation, Rajasthan government has beefed up its efforts for rescue operations. Army and NDRF teams have been deployed in Chittorgarh and Bhilwara districts while Indian Air Force choppers have been put on standby mode for evacuation. Two teams of national disaster response force (NDRF) and one column …
This paper presents a study on short-term ensemble flood forecasting specifically for small dam catchments in Japan. Numerical ensemble simulations of rainfall from the Japan Meteorological Agency nonhydrostatic model (JMA-NHM) are used as the input data to a rainfall–runoff model for predicting river discharge into a dam. The ensemble weather …
Around 40.92 lakh people have been affected so far in the devastating floods this year in the State with 41, 426.48 hectares of agricultural land being exposed to immense loss. This was informed by Minister of State for Revenue and Disaster Management Pallab Lochan Das in the Legislative Assembly on …
33 lakh people spread across 13 districts affected by the deluge The death toll in Bihar floods on Thursday mounted to 64 with over 33 lakh people spread across 13 districts affected by the deluge. Purnia district has witnessed 26 fatalities, followed by 15 in Katihar and eight in Supaul, …
District administration sends team About 500 cattle died in a sandbar in Majuli on Tuesday. Veterinary officials said the cattle died due to consumption of some poisonous shrub following shortage of foods during floods in the island. The incident took place at Tikirai Chapori, a sandbar in central Majuli, about …
Household flood management measures can significantly reduce the risk from flooding. Understanding the factors that influence the uptake of measures has important implications for the design of measures to induce people to take charge of risk mitigation. Original Source
Heavy overnight rains lashed south and east central Gujarat causing flood like situation in localities alongside rivers flowing through Valsad, Navsari and Surat districts and killing at least five persons at two places, officials said today. Auranga river in Valsad was flowing above danger level, due to incessant rains, flooding …
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand has the higher number of landslide prone or unstable zones among the north Himalayan states including Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, according to a report submitted in Parliament recently. As per the report, submitted on July 27 by YS Chowdary, minister of state for earth sciences, science …
Research reveals that liberals and conservatives in the United States diverge about their beliefs regarding climate change. We show empirically that political affiliation also matters with respect to climate related risks such as flooding from hurricanes. Our study is based on a survey conducted 6 months after Superstorm Sandy in …
Guwahati: Flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim on Monday with three more persons losing their lives, taking the death toll to 34 in the current deluge in which over 11 lakh people have been affected. According to Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), two persons were killed at …
GUWAHATI: Flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim on Monday with three more persons losing their lives, taking the death toll to 34 in the current deluge in which over 11 lakh people have been affected. According to Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), two persons were killed at …
Several rivers in spate; Toll stands at 26; Crops damaged in 3.39 lakh hectares of land The flood situation remained grim in 12 districts of Bihar where an estimated 27.50 lakh people were affected though no fresh casualty was reported, with the toll standing at 26. Ghaghra is flowing above …
Disasters present a broad range of human, social, financial, economic and environmental impacts, with potentially long-lasting, multi-generational effects. The financial management of these impacts is a key challenge for individuals and governments in developed and developing countries. G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors and APEC Finance Ministers have recognised …
This Report presents the results of the audit of the Departments of the Government of Assam under Social, General and Economic (Non-PSUs) Sectors. This Report contains 32 paragraphs (Social Sector: 16, Economic Sector: 6 and General Sector: 10, including 3 general paragraphs), three performance audit reports (Social Sector: two and …
