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Cloudbursts landslides in Uttarakhand 6 killed 11 missing
Uttarakhand has been hit hard by natural calamities this monsoon...
India and Fiji join hands for climate action, resilience building and sustainable development
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sitiveni Rabuka,Prime Minister,...
Without backup plans, global IT outages will happen again
“I’m sure the regulators globally are looking at this. There is limited competition globally for operating systems, for example, and also for the large-scale cybersecurity products like the ones CrowdStrike provides,” said Nigel Phair, a cybersecurity professor at...
Major global IT outage grounds flights, hits banks and businesses around the world
A global tech outage that appeared to be related to issues at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and Microsoft on Friday affected operations in sectors including airports, airlines, media and banks. Below is a list of disruptions that have been reported: AIRLINES,...
World Bank eyes first ‘drought’ bond in next 12-18 months
“We would love to do something in the drought space, that is something we are working on,” said George Richardson, director of the capital markets and investment department at the World Bank Treasury told Reuters, adding this would be most likely focussed on Africa...
The fund managers Cat modeling keep winning bets
Karen Clark, co-founder and chief executive officer of the Boston-based firm that carries her name, says the cumulative effect of past climate change is an 11% jump in insured losses related to hurricanes. Her firm’s projections to 2050 suggest that climate change...
CMA CGM says its ship lost 44 containers in tough weather
“No injury to the crew has been reported, no pollution, no strong damage to the vessel which remains fully seaworthy,” the company said, adding that 33 additional containers had been damaged French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM said on Thursday that its ship...
Flooding In Northern Bangladesh displaces 40,000 people
“Heavy rains in the Indian upstream region mean that the suffering is far from over. We have taken measures to cope with the situation,” said Rezwanul Rahman, the head of Bangladesh’s disaster management department. Flooding in Bangladesh has swept away homes and shut...
Assam flood situation deteriorates, 16.50 lakh people affected in 29 districts
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma chaired a meeting on the flood situation with all District Commissioners late on Wednesday night and directed them to be liberal in granting relief as per norms, complete all rehabilitation claims as per norms before August 15 and...
Hathras Stampede: Death toll rises to 121 occurred at a`satsang’
"The incident happened due to overcrowding at the time when people were trying to leave the venue," Hathras district administrator Ashish Kumar told reporters HATHRAS (UP): Over 121 people died and several others were injured in a stampede at a religious congregation...
Heat-dome: Indian Temperatures Beyond the Heatwave?
Robert Muir-Wood,Chief Research Officer, Moody’s RMS Mitigation is the only route to relieve the heat stress, and countries that are used to the heat benefit from previous experience and may have the infrastructure – from building design to designated cooling centers,...
Insurance premiums for climate resilience and NatCat protection are set to increase by 50% by 2030, to reach $200-250 billion, says report
Whilst insurance promises to be a great enabler to unlocking the transition and adapting economies to a new climate era, it will require a paradigm shift in how risk management is prioritised if climate finance is to be deployed and businesses are to secure their...