-PTI Two hundred and fifty people of two Tripura villages were displaced when a portion of an embankment of Kakri river was washed away in Flash floods, official sources said today. Gobindapur and Hurua villages of North Tripura district were submerged when a portion of the embankment was washed away in the Flash flood triggered by incessant rain yesterday displacing the people belonging to 76 families, the sources said. The displaced have taken...
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Flash floods pummel Himalayan region
-The Hindu Death toll in Uttarakhand alone is 28 After weeks of deficient monsoon in the northwestern region, the three Himalayan States of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, as well as Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday faced cloudbursts, landslips and floods, causing at least 31 deaths. Authorities issued a flood alert as the level in the Chenab, Tawi, Ujh and Basantar rivers approached the danger mark in Jammu. In Himachal Pradesh, the police...
More »World braves one of the worst summers; May temperature second hottest since 1880
-The Economic Times It's not just India that is baking. Globally, this seems to be one of the worst summers in recorded history. The global average temperature for May was the second hottest ever since 1880 - the year records were first compiled -- US National Climatic Data Centre (NCDC) has said. Only 2010 witnessed a worse May. The NCDC said such a hot May was never recorded in the northern hemisphere. No...
More »Northeast India floods kill 79, displace two million
-AFP At least 79 people have died and 2.2 million forced to leave their homes over the last week as torrential monsoon rains triggered floods across India's northeast, officials said Monday. Assam has been worst hit with the massive Brahmaputra river breaching its banks, while extensive flooding has also hit Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur. The Assam state government said 26 of 27 districts had endured Flash floods as heavy rains destroyed thousands of...
More »ICRISAT, ICAR jointly to fight climate change
-The Hindu The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have joined forces to adapt new measures to tackle the growing climate related risks and constraints that prevail in rural areas. Learn from people The two organizations and their partners emphasized adoption of a different perspective and approach by listening, observing and learning from the people that they are supposed to help with...
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