The United Nations has launched a global appeal for USD 460-million in aid for Pakistan. But so far, only about USD 150-million have been pledged. ...
11:42 PM, Aug 17, 2010
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11:29 PM, Aug 17, 2010
It is estimated that more than 13 million people have been left homeless by the floods. ...
10:26 PM, Aug 17, 2010
Washington: The World Bank has agreed to provide a $ 900 million financial aid to Pakistan, which is facing devastating flood that has affected 14 million people. "The Government of Pakistan has requested around $ 900 million of financial support from the World Bank, which we have committed to provide," the World Bank said in statement. The funding would come from the Bank's Fund for the Poorest (the International Development...
08:56 AM, Aug 17, 2010
Majority of victims of the deadly floods in Pakistan are struggling to make it to relief camps. ...
07:37 PM, Aug 16, 2010
Srinagar: A day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju on Monday travelled to Jammu and Kashmir's Leh region, where 183 people were killed and hundreds displaced in flashfloods earlier this month. Accompanied by Raju, the Congress leader visited the displaced in relief camps and the injured in hospitals. He assured the people that the Congress...
07:18 PM, Aug 16, 2010
Islamabad: Blaming the devastating floods sweeping Pakistan on India releasing excess water into the Satluj and Beas rivers, an editorial in a Pakistani paper on Sunday called on the government to reject the "hypocritical" Indian offer of aid. "The offer of aid is akin is throwing salt on our wounds," the editorial in the Urdu daily Nawa-i-Waqt said. "Bharat (India) has released water into the Satluj and the Beas and...
06:50 PM, Aug 15, 2010
Islamabad: One of the worst floods in the history of Pakistan eclipsed the Independence Day celebrations on Saturday, even as Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani appealed to the world community to extend a helping hand to tackle the calamity. Pakistani citizens have celebrated Independence Day every August 14 since 1947 to mark the creation of the country after the Partition. Vehicles and rooftops are festooned with flags and flower garlands...
08:19 AM, Aug 15, 2010
An amateur cameraman caught on tape the dramatic rescue of three women stuck in a taxi the middle of a flash flood in Barranquilla in Columbia. ...
03:01 PM, Aug 14, 2010
Sukkur: Disease outbreaks pose grave risks to victims of Pakistan's worst floods in decades, aid agencies said on Friday, causing fresh concern about the already complicated relief efforts. The floods, triggered by torrential monsoon downpours, have engulfed Pakistan's Indus river basin, killing more than 1,600 people, forcing two million from their homes and disrupting the lives of 14 million people, that forms 8 per cent of the entire population. At...
09:26 AM, Aug 14, 2010
India has offered $ 5 million in relief material to Pakistan for rehabilitation of the flood-hit areas. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna spoke to Pakistani Foreign Minister SM Qureshi and condoled the deaths of thousands in the floods, the country's worst in two decades. At least 1 million people have been displaced due to the floods and many are warning of a second surge in flood water levels. Over 1,500 ...
09:42 PM, Aug 13, 2010
The Druk Padma school in Leh, was featured in Bollywood actor Aamir Khan's movie
3 idiots. ...
10:43 AM, Aug 13, 2010
The flash floods in Leh following a deadly cloudburst has left over 150 dead and many more injured. A CJ shows how his car was swept away by mudslide in Choglamsar village. ...
09:40 PM, Aug 11, 2010
Dr Ritesh Arya, a geologist working in Leh, video recorded the devastation that was unleashed by the flash floods. Dr Arya was staying in a three-storey building in the Choglamsar village, which was the worst affected in the tragedy. The video shows Dr Arya and a few members of his team wading through waist deep sludge gathered in the first storey of the house as they attempt to evacuate a ...
09:31 PM, Aug 11, 2010
Jaisalmer: The floods continue to spell fury in India with Rajasthan under water for the third time in the last three years. Parts of Rajasthan were submerged with water as railway embankments were even washed away, children forced out of inundated schools and the once dry rivers Leek and Luni in Jaisalmer revived with vengeance. Koel Kanwar, a resident of Phulasar village in Jaisalmer said, “I barely escaped. The water...
10:48 AM, Aug 11, 2010
Srinagar: The death toll in the devastating flash floods caused by the sudden cloudburst in Leh town in Jammu and Kashmir's Ladakh region went up on Tuesday to 166, including 23 foreigners, while around 400 people were still missing, officials said. Over 3000 tourists who had been trapped in Leh for the last 4 days were relocated to safer places on Tuesday as the Indian Army intensified its rescue and...
09:28 AM, Aug 11, 2010
A 16-year-old girl, whose parents were employed with the BRO as contract labour, lost her father in the flather. ...
10:48 AM, Aug 10, 2010
Karnataka cadre IAS officer Anand Subbarao died in Leh following respiratory problems. ...
09:10 AM, Aug 10, 2010
Two-year-old Deldan Angmo was washed away by flood water on August 6 in Leh, Ladakh. ...
10:59 PM, Aug 09, 2010
In a cruel twist of fate 28-year-old Riyaz died in the tragedy just as he was getting ready to marry. ...
10:44 PM, Aug 09, 2010
