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Pakistan's socio-economic life was topsy-turveyed by devastating floods last year described four times deadlier than Asian tsunami. While it was yet struggling to get back ...
03:35 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Bhagalpur: Floods have not only rendered thousands homeless in Bihar but has also damaged crops and snapped road communication at several places. Sunita Devi, a resident of Bhagalpur which is reported to be one of the worst affected areas, has been through the worst trauma a woman can undergo. Stranded in a make-shift flood relief camp, she had to give birth to her daughter six days back, without any medical...
07:30 AM, Sep 01, 2011
Kolkata: Flood situation in West Bengal continued to be grim with most of the major rivers in spate following increased discharge from reservoirs of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) and Tilpara and Kangsabati barrages, as the death toll shot to 36 on Thursday. State Irrigation Minister Manas Bhuniya said in the Assembly lobby that several rivers in North and South Bengal were flowing above the danger mark as further release from...
08:03 PM, Aug 18, 2011
Udaynarayanpur: West Bengal is battling a flood like situation after an overflowing Damodar river has submerged 14 districts in the state causing widespread damage. Heavy downpour which overflowed the river, has also lead to the wiping out of crops. Residents have been forced to evacuate their homes and villages because the extreme floods have become a nightmare for them. Samar Pacchal and his family have shifted to the rooftop of...
07:57 AM, Aug 16, 2011
Karachi: Over 2 lakh people have been affected and displaced by a fresh wave of floods that has hit parts of Pakistan's southern Sindh province, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Monday. The heavy floods that swept away hundreds of villages and damaged rice crops have stirred memories of the flood disaster that hit Sindh last year. The NDMA said that over 2 lalh people have been affected...
08:04 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has allocated Rs seven crore for rescue and relief work in flood-affected areas of the state. "The state government has allocated Rs 7.07 crore to supply and arrange relief material in flood-affected districts," Relief Commissioner KK Sinha said. He said the allocated amount would be given to Barabanki, Pilibhit, Bahraich, Lakhimpur, Kannauj, Gonda, Kushinagar, Jaunpur an Bijnor districts. He said to distribute relief material and...
06:31 PM, Aug 07, 2011
Leh: It is exactly a year to the day, when a cloudburst in Leh resulted in flash floods taking in its wake 250 lives and leaving behind hundreds of others injured. One year after the horrific cloudburst in Leh, scenes from the tragedy still haunt Stanzin Topasis. "My family was trapped inside the house when the floods swept us. I was lucky to pull my son back from the river,...
09:45 PM, Aug 06, 2011
Surat: Every year, about 25,000 idols of lord Ganesha and other deities are immersed in Surat's Tapi river. Most of them made of Plaster of Paris and painted with hazardous chemicals leave the river polluted and dirty. But that's set to change. Following a Gujarat High Court order, the Surat police is cracking down on idol makers. As many as 6000 idols have been seized and six people arrested. From...
08:34 AM, Jul 29, 2011
Patna: An alert was sounded after two persons died as the overall flood situation aggravated on Monday in Bihar's Gopalganj, Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur districts with rivers maintaining rising trends. "We have sounded alert across the state with aggravation of flood threat with heavy rains in the catchment areas of major rivers," Bihar Water Resource Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary said. Two youths drowned while crossing the swollen Budhi Gandak river at...
06:36 PM, Jul 04, 2011
Beijing: Heavy rains in eastern China have put more than 660 reservoirs at the risk of overflowing, an official said on Tuesday. Rain-triggered floods have swept parts of eastern and southern China this month, leaving at least 175 dead and 86 missing and causing 35 billion yuan ($5 billion) in direct economic losses, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. An official at the media department of the Anhui Water...
10:06 AM, Jun 22, 2011
Beijing: Chinese state media are reporting that more than 120,000 people have fled their homes in eastern China as more rains cause landslides and flooding. Flooding in the country this month has already led to thousands of people evacuating and left more than 170 people dead or missing. Xinhua News Agency said Friday that a dike breached in Zhejiang province a day earlier and flooded 18 villages. Heavy rains elsewhere...
10:57 AM, Jun 17, 2011
Mumbai: Over 900 lives were lost and 2.5 lakh homes were damaged in the 2005 Mumbai floods. The flood resulted in a loss of Rs 450 crore. Much could've been saved if the Mithi river had not been choked by sludge and garbage and its banks not encroached by slums. Based on the recommendations of an expert committee, the state government allocated over Rs 1600 crore for cleaning up the...
08:31 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Beijing: Rain-triggered floods in southwestern China have killed 21 people and left 37 others missing while damaging roads, bridges and thousands of homes, officials said on Tuesday. The 21 deaths were reported in Guizhou province's Wangmo county, where 31 people were missing, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Nong Wenhai, a deputy governor of Wangmo. Another person was missing in the province's Luodian county. Some 45,000 residents in worst-hit Wangmo...
08:29 AM, Jun 08, 2011
Dhemaji: Assam was hit by the first wave of flood on Saturday with Brahmaputra's tributary Jiadhol rising alarmingly in the flood-prone Dhemaji district, officials said. Heavy rainfall for the last few days has led to the water level of Jiadhol river to rise alarmingly affecting more than 20 flood-prone villages of the district. A section of National Highway-52 was also submerged at Samarjan with traffic stranded on the way. The...
08:50 PM, Jun 04, 2011
Colombo: Over one million people have been displaced by flooding in north-central and north-eastern Sri Lanka, officials said on Sunday, as monsoon rains fell for the sixth consecutive day. The floods were widespread and were affecting roads, agricultural land and town centres, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said. According to officials based in the area, the death toll has reached more than 13. But the DMC said on Sunday it...
07:01 PM, Feb 06, 2011
Wellington: Tropical cyclone Wilma lashed the top of New Zealand early Saturday, bringing widespread flooding and landslides which cut highways and power blackouts. The fire service in Auckland, the country's largest city, reported more than 400 emergency calls in the 11 hours to dawn, including one after a cliffside house collapsed onto a beach on Waiheke Island. Two people were reported stuck up trees for more than four hours as...
09:13 AM, Jan 29, 2011
Islamabad: Over four million Pakistanis are still homeless, six months after massive floods devastated the country, the Red Cross has said. Many are returning to their homes to discover these are no longer inhabitable. "Six months on from the devastating flooding in Pakistan, more than four million people remain in a desperate situation without adequate shelter," The News International reported on Saturday quoting a statement by the International Federation of...
10:59 AM, Jan 22, 2011
Sydney: An inflatable doll blew up in the face of a woman riding it down a flood-swollen Yarra river in Australia when she lost her latex playmate in a rough patch, prompting the authorities to issue a warning that such sex toys are "not recognised flotation devices". Police and an emergency services crew were called to the rescue when the woman and a man, both 19 years old, struck trouble...
10:27 AM, Jan 18, 2011
Teresopolis in Brazil is in a collective state of shock as scores of people have died in catastrophic floods. ...
09:35 AM, Jan 17, 2011
