The disaster exposed how logging reshaped floodplains that are home to tens of millions of people. Sumatra is a major hub for palm oil, mining, timber and oil and gas.
Heavy rains Sunday in Morocco’s Atlantic coastal province of Safi, 330 kilometres (205 miles) south of Rabat, also injured 32 people, Moroccan authorities said.
Study in Nature journal says 85% of monsoon-linked deaths from 2006 to 2015 occurred in slums as they are located in low-lying, flood-prone areas, with women & children facing higher risk.
Tropical depression triggered landslides & flooding in Gulf Coast & central states. 'This intense rain was not expected to be of such magnitude,' says President Claudia Sheinbaum.
A week after Typhoon Bualoi caused severe flooding in Hanoi, which killed at least 51 people, the weather agency has forecasted that 3 more storms will hit Vietnam before the end of 2023.
Govt has declared school holidays due to heavy rain forecast in West Bengal for the next two days. Govt-run primary, upper primary, and higher secondary schools told to remain closed.
Kolkata: Heavy overnight rainfall caused severe waterlogging in several parts of Kolkata city. The downpour disrupted traffic movement in multiple areas and caused inconvenience...
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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