The focus of this year’s International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) is on Target G of the Sendai Framework: “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to people by 2030.” In the announcement...
The flood situation in river Mahanadi, especially due to mismanagement of the Hirakud dam, has once again called for urgent attention of the policy planners. While we write this update at the afternoon hours of 9th September 2011, television channels are broadcasting that 59 out...
Flooding had affected at least 2.2 million people in 3505 villages of 93 blocks and 14 urban areas of 19 districts in the Orissa state of India. According to government reports 14 domestic animals have died and 2 elephants have been swept away by flood...
Mon soon rainy season started in Sindh province (Pakistan) from 19th August 2011 causing floods to Sindh province affecting people in 23 districts. Out of many districts Badin district has been severely affected by floods. Number of deaths reported from Badin alone are 35 out...
The worst monsoon floods in a decade to hit the Indian north-eastern state of Assam have killed more than 80 people and forced around 2 million to leave their homes, officials said on Monday. Air force dropping food parcels to marooned survivors as worst flooding in...
The "back flow" of the rising Brahmaputra in neighbouring Assam is resulting in the swelling of the Jingiram river which has inundated about 100 villages out of which 34 have been totally submerged in West Garo Hills affecting 75000. SHILLONG: The "back flow" of the rising...
SAARC Disaster Management Center (SDMC), New Delhi, in collaboration with the National Institute of Mass Communication organized a two-day training program for media on the theme ‘Role of media in disaster risk reduction in South Asia'. Information Secretary Hedayetullah Al Mamoon addressed the program as the...
Flash floods in mountainous northern Indian have killed at least 34 people and left hundreds of Hindu pilgrims stranded, officials said Sunday. Twenty-three workers at a hydroelectric power plant in Uttarakhand state died after water gushed into the facility on Saturday, state Disaster Management Minister...
MUZAFFARABAD, PAKISTAN: At least thirteen people including two women and four children were swept away by violent water of a rain-swollen Nullah in Machiara area of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, September 5. A police official in the area confirmed that 13 people were washed away by...
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