PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Addressing the...
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Arnab, which formed over the Bay of Bengal before intensifying...
India’s heatwave move exposes global climate finance gap ahead of COP31
According to India's first Adaptation Communication to the UN...
Climate change: Centre assures support to farmers battling drought, floods
While some states in the country were dealing with floods, others have drought, the minister noted, adding, "We are witnessing adverse effects of climate change and we have to deal with them."Shivraj Singh Chouhan,Union Agriculture Minister Nagpur: The Centre will...
Climate Disasters: Shrinking funding & heightened risk of GLOFs
Himalayan glaciers are losing mass 65% faster than they were a decade ago, according to a new report by global consultancy Systemiq, produced with Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. Yet only around 0.1% of the Himalaya's...
Drought declared in three-quarters of India’s richest state, Maharashtra
The declaration in Maharashtra came after the national weather department forecast India would end its annual monsoon season with a rainfall deficit, threatening farmers' livelihoods. A stronger-than-usual El Nino climate phenomenon, which typically brings drier...
Hydropower Risks: Mapping interdependencies and building resilience
From an insurance perspective, events such as recent floods in South Asia reinforce the need for a forward-looking approach to risk assessment. Historical loss data remains important, but should be complemented by climate science, catastrophe modelling, engineering...
Nepal floods could cost insurers over $130 million even before death, injury claims
Eleven Nepali hydropower projects lie in the affected region, some covered by standard commercial insurance policies that are still being assessed, said Toton Chakraborty, CEO of Oriental Insurance Company Nepal. MUMBAI:The devastating flood in Nepal last week could...
Home secy Govind Mohan reviews preparedness of Himalayan states/UT for GLOF and snow avalanches
Govind Mohan,Union Home Secretary The meeting concluded with directions for continued inter-agency coordination, regular sharing of risk information and strengthening of early warning and response mechanisms to minimise loss of life and property in vulnerable...
Nepal Floods Catastrophe:15 non-life insurers report losses of Rs25.87 billion
The scale of the claims is being driven primarily by engineering and construction exposures, highlighting the concentration of insured losses in large infrastructure projects following the August 26 disaster. Kathmandu:Insurance claims arising from the devastating...
Thailand shifts disaster risk to insurers with $467 million plan
The government on Tuesday approved a 15.5 billion baht ($467 million) annual insurance program to cover 30 million households against floods, storms and earthquakes, said Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul Thailand plans to provide government-funded disaster insurance...
Before flood catastrophe, Nepal asked China for early warnings as risks mounted
"What we actually wanted from them, and still want, is if there are early movements of glaciers and early movements around that area, we would want to know a bit early," said Sauhardra Joshi, a hydrologist at Nepal's Flood Forecasting Division, who was in the May...
Flood water level rises again in Bhotekoshi river: Nepal authorities
Death toll from the flash floods, which caused widespread devastation, has surged to nearly 700 and nearly 2,400 people remain missing following the disaster, according to authorities.. The impoverished Himalayan nation of 30 million people called for specialist...