(Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, Dec 1, IANS) Former US president Bill Clinton Friday hailed India's tsunami relief and rehabilitation programme, saying UN agencies would replicate it. During a visit to...
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India: Flood forces review of Ahmedabad riverfront development
Ahmedabad's civic authorities have been compelled to review the ambitious riverfront development project following heavy floods in the Sabarmati river last month. (Ahmedabad, Sep 12; IANS) After the...
India: A village of hope comes alive in tsunami land
(Nambikainallur, Tamil Nadu, Aug 23) It is called Nambikainallur, 'a village of hope' that several hundred tsunami victims got this week -- almost two years after their homes were washed away by the...
India: Floods affect 200,000 in Orissa, 14 die
(Bhubaneswar, Aug 21, IANS) Heavy rains in Orissa over the last week have claimed at least 14 lives and affected more than 200,000 people with more than six million hectares of agricultural land...
India: Maharashtra flood toll 219
(Mumbai, Aug 10) The death toll in the Maharashtra floods has touched 219 as heavy showers continued to pound the state Thursday. About 250,000 people have been displaced till now, according to...
India: Heavy rains cripple Maharashtra, Andhra
(Mumbai/Hyderabad, Aug 6) The states of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh lay battered Sunday as heavy rains, accompanied by squally winds, submerged roads, marooned villages and disrupted normal life. ...
India: Over 300,000 people hit by Orissa floods
(Balasore, Orissa; Aug 2) Over 300,000 people in coastal Orissa were hit by flash floods triggered by torrential rains in the state for the past 3-4 days, said an official Wednesday. The swelling of...
India: 25,000 evacuated in rain-hit Gujarat
(Ahmedabad, July 30) More than 25,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying areas in five districts of Gujarat as heavy rains continued to lash the state for the third consecutive day Sunday,...
India: Heavy rains lash Gujarat; 5,000 people evacuated
(Ahmedabad, July 5) About 5,000 people were evacuated from the low-lying areas of Navsari district Wednesday following heavy rainfalls in the entire south Gujarat region, officials said. As the four...
Major UN role in Nepal peace building on cards
(Kathmandu, June 20) Though at least seven governments have rejected the international community's offers to assist in peace building in insurgency-hit Nepal, an extensive role by the United Nations...
Tornado kills five in Bangladesh
(Dhaka, March 5) Five people were killed and over 100 wounded as a tornado swept through six villages in Bangladesh, media reports said Sunday. The tornado hit the southwestern Bagerhat district...
India: Tsunami-affected people get new homes
(Nagapattinam,Tamil Nadu; Dec 20) Nearly 1,700 people of a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, affected by the tsunami nearly a year ago, received keys to new houses Tuesday, thanks to a NGO. Built by the...
India: Cyclone alert on Tamil Nadu coast
(Chennai, Dec 18) A cyclone alert was sounded along the coastal regions of Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu Sunday as a deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal was lying centred at about 350...
Kerala group to help Pakistan's quake victims
(Kollam, Kerala; Dec 18) A spiritual group in India's Kerala state Sunday said it was ready to extend monetary and material relief to Pakistani victims of the Oct 8 quake that killed tens of...
India: South Africa brings Rs.3 mn for Tamil Nadu tsunami aid
(Chennai, Dec 18) Prime Minister of South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal province Joel Sibusiso Ndebele Sunday handed $69,000 (Rs.3 million) to an NGO here to build houses for tsunami victims in Tamil Nadu...
India: Pondicherry coast tsunami victims get new houses
(Pondicherry, Dec 13) Tsunami survivors in Pannithittu village in this centrally administered region were Tuesday handed over 100 houses built for them. Tamil Nadu Governor S.S. Barnala and...
India: Kashmir minister hands out hammers to quake-hit
(Jammu, Dec 5) In a unique move to aid quake survivors in Jammu and Kashmir, a minister here distributed hammers as part of relief operations to ease the task of pitching temporary shelters. "I...
India: Large-scale evacuation in Chennai after flood fury
(Chennai, Dec 4) More than 500,000 people were affected in this Tamil Nadu capital and its suburbs after rain-fed rivers and lakes inundated almost three-fourths of the city, even as the army was...