THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A three-member ministerial team on Tuesday visited the places in the city which had borne the brunt of the flash floods that followed heavy rains on the night of December 30. The cabinet sub-committee team, consisting of Revenue Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, PWD Minister V K Ebrahim Kunju and Transport Minister V S Sivakumar, visited the flash flood- affected areas in Jagathy, Killipalam and Maruthankuzhi. The team will submit a...
09:03 AM, Jan 11, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Amayizhanjan canal is not only a notorious dumping space, but is also the ideal location to put the blame for the flash floods in the city.By pointing to the totally blocked canal, the authorities can easily wash off their sins of allowing encroachments over culverts, the major lifelines in the city. Years old culverts at various points are either partially or totally blocked owing to encroachments, making the...
09:06 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Manila: Nearly 1,000 people were killed when flash floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Washi swept through riverside and coastal villages in the southern Philippines late last week, the national disaster agency said on Tuesday. The agency said 957 were killed and 49 were missing, with most of the casualties coming from the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan. The previous death toll was 650. Authorities in the two...
09:03 AM, Dec 20, 2011
Cagayan De Oro: Rescuers searched for more than 800 people missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides swept houses into rivers and out to sea, killing more than 650 people in areas ill-prepared to cope with storms. Cagayan de Oro and nearby Iligan cities on Mindanao island were worst hit when Typhoon Washi slammed ashore while people slept late on Friday and early Saturday, sending...
04:07 PM, Dec 18, 2011
Manila: Flash floods devastated a southern Philippines region unaccustomed to serious storms, killing at least 450 people while they slept, rousting hundreds of others to their rooftops and turning two coastal cities into muddy, debris-filled waterways that were strewn with overturned vehicles and toppled trees. With nearly 300 people missing, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and top military officials were to fly to the worst-hit city of Cagayan de Oro on...
07:38 AM, Dec 18, 2011
Gangtok: Four days after a powerful earthquake hit the state, leaving behind a trail of deaths and devastations, Sikkim on Thursday again felt minor tremors of 3.9 magnitude. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) sources, the quake measuring 3.9 magnitude in the Richter scale hit the state at 10.15 pm. The epicentre of the quake was in Sikkim. Panicked residents in the state capital came out of their homes...
12:17 AM, Sep 23, 2011
New Delhi: Just days after a massive earthquake hit Sikkim, the northeastern state was on Thursday hit by flash floods. The flash floods hit Lachung, located in north Sikkim district near China border, damaging at least two houses, including one Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp. As many as 100 people have been stranded due to the flash floods that occurred on Thursday. Meanwhile, rescue operations are on in the quake-hit...
01:21 PM, Sep 22, 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
Jammu: Search and rescue operations in cloudburst affected Assar-Bagger area of Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir continued on Thursday amid protest for immediate grant of compensation to the affected. People of the area launched a protest on Thursday morning disrupting the relief and rescue work, official sources said. "There were some persons who were protesting for the immediate grant of compensation and were creating hurdles in the restoration work....
04:34 PM, Jun 09, 2011
The Ladakh Ecological and Developmental Group and SEEDS were selected for the dedicated work they put in after Leh flash floods. ...
09:26 AM, Dec 17, 2010
Two months after the Leh flash floods many children are leaving home to start education and begin life afresh. ...
07:50 AM, Oct 05, 2010
It has been more than a month since the devastating flash floods in Leh, but the victims haven't received any compensation from Government. ...
01:14 PM, Sep 14, 2010
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has made a personal donation of Rs 50,000 for rehabilitation of victims of the devastating cloudburst that hit Leh last month. Singh had visited the region recently and had announced an Rs 125 crore relief packaged for cloudburst victims and said all houses destroyed by the natural calamity will be reconstructed within the next two-and-a-half months. President Pratibha Patil has donated Rs 1 lakh...
02:32 PM, Sep 01, 2010
Jammu: President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday arrived in the flood-ravaged Leh town of Jammu and Kashmir to review and assess the rescue and relief operations there. Pratibha, who was received at the Leh airport by Governor N N Vohra and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, was briefed by the Indian Army and Air Force officers on the operations under way, an official source said. The President lauded the efforts of the...
01:18 PM, Sep 01, 2010
The cloudburst in Leh has left a trail of death and destruction. Join Aamir Khan and Network18 in helping the people of Leh. ...
01:42 PM, Aug 26, 2010
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