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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Topic: floods

IPCC has a clear warning for India, flood forecasting needs some speed in it

Until we find the answers to climate change that can ease flooding, a nation-wide implementation of state-of-the-art flood forecasting systems is the only way to go.

4,000 girls go missing in Bengal each year. Floods, evictions, Ganga have their own role

In ‘Field Notes from a Waterborne Land’, Parimal Bhattacharya writes about impact of natural calamities on school dropouts in Bengal, especially girls.

Heavy rains flood Tirupati, flights hit, hundreds of pilgrims stranded

Heavy downpour under the influence of a depression in Bay of Bengal battered the temple-town Tirupati and many parts of Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh.

Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel holds review meeting on flood situation in Saurashtra region

Heavy rains battered parts of Saurashtra region Monday and low-lying areas got flooded. Patel has instructed the authorities to airlift stranded people in rain-hit Jamnagar district.

India’s strategy to combat Covid crisis gave priority to poor, says PM Modi

PM Modi also noted the floods ravaging Madhya Pradesh during his interaction Saturday with PMGKAY beneficiaries and said that the entire nation stands with the state in its crisis.

PM Modi speaks to Mamata Banerjee on flood situation in Bengal, assures ‘all possible support’

At least 15 people have died and nearly 3 lakh displaced due to heavy rain and the subsequent release of water by the Damodar Valley Corporation and Durgapur Barrage in West Bengal.

Foreign journalists in China targeted again, this time over Henan floods

While local authorities in China's Henan province said more than 3 million lives have been affected by the floods, Chinese state media outlets kept the number low.

Monsoon fury leaves 113 dead, 100 missing in Maharashtra, CM Thackeray visits flood-hit area

NDRF team retrieved a total of 73 bodies from Raigad, Ratnagiri and Satara districts of Maharashtra, while 47 people are missing following landslides triggered by heavy rainfall.

76 dead, 38 injured & 30 missing in Maharashtra floods, CM Thackeray to visit Raigad district

CMO says nearly 90,000 people have been evacuated from flood-hit areas. Disaster management department says 129 people have died in rain-related incidents in the past 2 days.

13 killed, over 1 lakh evacuated in massive central China floods, President Xi deploys army

China's Henan province is hit by the heaviest rainfall in 1,000 years requiring PLA to rescue those trapped amid fear of a dam's collapse posing flood risk to the provincial capital.

On Camera

Social media has made news more graphic. Torture by Russian military is latest example

Before social media, depiction of violence on news was the exception—graphic visuals were either not shown on TV or in newspapers or the images were blurred. This is no longer the case.

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

BRO connects new axis to Ladakh, to be shortest route

The all-weather Nimmu-Padam-Darcha Road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil-Leh Highway.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.