Natural Disasters

GUWAHATI, Sept 6 – The Water Resources department (WRD) of the State has proposed a Rs 177 crore 56 lakh 24 thousand scheme for protection of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) from erosion.

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Rania Abouzeid It was an image that conveyed the human cost of the Pakistan floods — and the failure to deliver aid to those affected — more powerfully than any statistic: four young children lying on a filthy patchwork quilt, one of them sucking on an empty yellow bottle, all of them covered by flies. The photograph by Associated Press's Mohammad Sajjad went around the world and featured in

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Anandpur Sahib, September 5 With the opening of spillways of the Bhakra reservoir this morning, villages of Anandpur Sahib situated downhill the Sutlej started flooding by the evening. As the water level touched 1680.05 ft in the morning, the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) opened spillways at 9 am today.

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The flood situation continues to be grim as large swathe of area remained inundated after rains lashed large parts of the state in last 48 hours. Many schools have been turned into relief camps. Villagers are being evacuated from villages and shifted to these camps. "Situation is very bad in Barabanki and Gonda where Ghaghra is in spate.

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New Delhi: In a bid to study earthquakes more closely, Indian scientists are preparing to send probes to greater depths to monitor changes in the earth's crust; perhaps the first such project in this part of the world. The scientists are planning to drill a borehole up to eight kilometres deep into the earth in the quake-prone Koyna region in Maharashtra to understand the changes that occur und

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BHUBANESWAR: The Pradesh Kisan Congress today announced that it would launch a Statewide agitation against the Government’s failure to tackle the drought-like situation. The Government has neither a clear picture on the kharif crop position nor it has any plan of action on saving the crops, Pradesh Kisan Congress president Amiya Patnaik told a media conference here.

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Ahmedabad: A number of villages in Maliya, Junagadh have big Geographic Information System (GIS) maps put up in the main area of the village where there are specific routes marked for people to take in case there are floods or any other disaster to reach the safe spot.

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Srinagar: The Punjab government on Thursday announced a relief of Rs 1 crore for the rehabilitation of cloudburst and flash flood victims of Leh district in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. “There has been a natural calamity in Leh which has resulted in loss of many precious lives and devastation to the infrastructure.

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ROURKELA: With monsoon playing truant and paddy crops in half of the total 17 blocks in Sundargarh district showing signs of damage, the demand for drought tag is gaining ground. Sources said following low rainfall during June and July, the farmers had pinned all hopes on August to salvage the situation.

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MORIGAON, Sept 2 – More than 45 thousand people, mostly marginal farmers were badly hit by the five consecutive floods of the Brahmaputra in Bhuragaon and Mayong revenue circle of Morigaon district this year. According to official sources, the bodo crop cultivation in Mayong revenue circle was completely devastated by the first wave of the Brahmaputra’s flood during the first week of May.

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