Assam floods: State govt providing ration to people living in relief camps
News | July 19, 2020 20:33 ISTThe situation has worsened due to flood in Assam.
The situation has worsened due to flood in Assam.
The situation has worsened due to flood in Assam. At least 76 people died and 53,99,017 people are affected across 30 districts.
Due to floods, 80% of Kaziranga National Park is submerged in water. So far 66 animals have died in the floods and 170 have been rescued.
Flash floods triggered by incessant rainfall have left over 700,000 people marooned in Bangladesh, while inundating hundreds of villages and pushing the water levels of 14 rivers above the danger level, according to the media reports.
Karnataka and Maharashtra would set up a joint committee to manage floods in the Krishna river basin during the monsoon when heavy rains lash both states, an official said on Thursday.
Pounding rain that already caused deadly floods in southern Japan was moving northeast Wednesday, battering large areas of Japan’s main island, swelling more rivers, triggering mudslides and destroying houses and roads. At least 58 people have died in several days of flooding.
More than 75,000 residents in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima were urged to evacuate following pounding rains overnight.
A little over an hour-long off-monsoon rainfall paralysed normal life in Mangalabag area in the city on Thursday afternoon. The heavy rain has inundated parts of SCB Medical College and Hospital campus in the locality putting patients, their attendants and the hospital staff in difficulties.
Former MP Pappu Yadav's Durga Puja was quite different. Working like a Good Samaritan, Pappu Yadav helped thousands of affected people across the waterlogged Patna as he distributed essentials to them.
The Centre on Friday approved additional financial assistance of Rs 1813.75 crore to Karnataka and Bihar for the damages caused by the rains and floods in the two states, the Home Ministry said on Friday.
A 54-year-old sub-inspector of the BSF is suspected to have drowned in a swollen river along the International Border (IB) in Jammu on Sunday.
A 10-month-old baby was miraculously rescued by a fire brigade team in Pune. The miraculous rescue was captured in a video. Take a look:
The National Weather Service issued a hurricane warning Wednesday for the Atlantic coast from northern Georgia to southern Virginia, predicting a “potentially life-threatening storm surge” around the North Carolina-South Carolina line.
Pakistan's biggest city is faced with squalor that has resulted in a major reproduction of flies on a scale that has drawn coverage by the New York Times. In a special report, the prestigious US daily has said that Karachi has turned into a den of flies that are omnipresent in housing colonies, markets, homes, shops and everywhere else.
With rains again lashing parts of flood-ravaged Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday directed all ministers overseeing relief operations and the deputy commissioners to step up vigil.
Indian Air Force helicopters carried dramatic rescue operations in Jammu and Karnal districts on Monday, and the administration was on alert in parts of Haryana and Punjab.
The chief minister made the announcements during a tour of the flood-affected areas of Rupnagar district to access the damage due to torrential rains in the past 72 hours.
Over 8,000 people were moved to 56 relief camps as water entered the villages on the banks of the swollen river following heavy discharge of flood water from the upstream reservoirs of Krishna basin.
Heavy rains have caused severe traffic disruptions at Kolkata's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata. Several flights have been delayed while more rains affected normal life in Madhya Pradesh.
The mosque is located few kilometres away from Kavalappara, a remote hamlet in the district where a large number of people and children were killed following the landslide last Thursday. Search operations are still on to trace the bodies of the people, who have gone missing and are feared to have been buried alive.
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