Death toll from floods in south India passes 250OMER FAROOQ
State Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has attributed the floods to the opening of many dams across Kerala because of rise in water levels in major reservoirs. "The situation in the state is really serious. We are forced to open 22 dams in the state due to incessant rains. Such a situation ...
At Least 31 Killed in Floods in India's Tamil Nadu More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A volunteer offers food to a resident after his house got partially submerged following heavy rains due to Cyclone Michaung, in Chennai, India, December 6, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo By Praveen Paramasivam ...
India is a land of monsoons of which the South-West Monsoon is a wet monsoon while the North-East Monsoon is a dry one. Yet the rainfall produced by them is not uniformly distributed either in space or in time which therefore leads to the occurrence of floods and droughts in different ...
An increasing trend of urban floods in India from past several years causes major damages on Indian cities. By 2050, more than half of the population in th
Karnataka has reported as many as 26 deaths, while around 20 persons lost their lives in Gujarat. The south-western state of Maharashtra has reported around 12 deaths so far. Over half-a-million people have been evacuated from the inundated areas in all these states, and rehabilitated in ...
Hundreds of rescuers dug through slushy debris and fast-flowing, icy water Friday in a search for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam in India’s Himalayan northeast, a disaster that many had warned was possible for years.
Throughout Malaysia, including Sabah and Sarawak, there is total of 189 river basins (89 of the river basins are in peninsula Malaysia, 78 in Sabah and 22 in Sarawak), with the main channels flowing directly to the South China Sea and 85 of them are prone to become recurrent flooding. ...
Floods are the most commonly occurring natural disasters in India due to India’s unique geographical location and socioeconomic conditions. Frequent flooding causes enormous loss of human lives and damage crops and public utilities. Furthermore, floods
DHAKA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A humanitarian crisis is unfolding across large areas in South Asia, with more than 16 million people affected by monsoon floods in Nepal, Bangladesh and India, said the International Federation of Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in a statement rec...