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COP29: Baku meet adopts establishment of global carbon market under Paris Agreement’s Article 6
The Article 6.4 mechanism is seen as an important tool in bridging...
Multiple climate disasters trigger first ever Red Cross disaster insurance pay-out
The IFRC policy with insurance broker Aon is the first of its kind...
‘Gloomy’ information suggests ‘foreign hand’ behind cloudburst: KCR
K Chandrashekhar Rao,Chief Minister,Telangana ''A new method called cloudburst has come. They say there are conspiracies around it. We don’t know how far it is true. Some foreign countries are deliberately doing cloudbursts in our country. Earlier, they did it in Leh...
Punjab CM gives nod to state disaster mitigation fund
Bhagwant Mann,Chief Minister,Punjab The chief minister said a total sum of Rs 729.60 crore will be available in the SDMF from 2021 to 2026, which will be instrumental in further augmenting the preparedness of the state for any sort of natural disaster Chandigarh:...
Garuda Aerospace to assist NDRF in flood affected Gujarat, AP
The drones would be deployed to deliver food and necessary medicines to people affected by the floods in Vadodara (Gujarat) and in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh Chennai: Drone start-up Garuda Aerospace has offered its assistance to National Disaster Response Force in...
Centre declared Assam floods as ‘severe natural calamity’, providing funds for relief: Himanta
Assam has witnessed two waves of floods since April 6, with the second having been devastating, affecting 90 lakh people or one-third of the state's population, while 195 people have lost their lives and 37 people are still missing Guwahati: Centre has declared this...
Godavari turns ferocious, record flood expected in next 3 days
`As per the information available right now, the flood flow may touch 20 lakh cusecs by Friday evening and go further up the next day. We have been asked to prepare for a flood of up to 28 lakh cusecs,'' a district Collector told PTI over phone Amaravati: Andhra...
76 dead in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra so far this monsoon: Report
Officials had said on Saturday that at least 130 villages in three districts of the state, all in the Marathwada and Vidarbha regions, have been affected by heavy rains that caused floods in parts of these districts and at least 200 people were evacuated. Mumbai:...
Geologists allay fears over tremors, say Deccan Plateau is safe zone
Incidentally, the seismic activities became more visible soon after a major earthquake in Afghanistan, which killed several people and left many injured. But, the geologists in Karnataka were unanimous in saying there was no need to panic as the Deccan Plateau is a...
Flooding affects 7.2mn people in Bangladesh: UN
According to the statement, the Bangladeshi government has evacuated over 472,000 people to some 1,605 shelters Dhaka: An estimated 7.2 million people have been severely affected in Bangladesh following devastating flash floods which began in May with a second wave...
Australian flood: Insurers receive 8,415 claims for almost $100 million
There are 84 per cent property, 14 per cent motor and two per cent commercial claims Sydney: The Australian insurers have received 8,415 claims with an estimated insurance loss of $97.9 million, said the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) which earlier this week...
Assam floods damaged 30,000 to 40,000 houses, says CM Himanta
Later, talking to journalists, Sarma said since Assam's flood has been labelled ''severe'' by a central team, which made an assessment of the flood situation, he sought an advance fund from the NDRF to enable the state to help the people whose houses were damaged by...