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Explore Ahmedabad's groundbreaking Heat Action Plan, a response to escalating temperatures exacerbated by climate change. After a devastating heatwave in 2010 claimed hundreds of lives, Ahmedabad launched South Asia's first threshold-based strategy in 2013. This comprehensive plan integrates early warning systems, coordinated agency efforts, public...
Between 2019 and 2023, India faced severe weather disasters, leading South Asia in casualties and economic losses. It accounted for over 80% of the region's deaths, with 10,000 fatalities out of 11,995. These disasters cost India $56 billion in damages, the highest in South Asia....
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst the impact of heatwaves became more severe, according to a new report from the World Meteorological...
The death toll from floods in Bangladesh this week has risen to eight, leaving more than two million affected after heavy rains caused major rivers to burst their banks, officials confirmed on Saturday. The South Asian nation of 170 million people, crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers,...
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...