People flee to rooftops as ‘weather bomb’ submerges Australian towns

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate as heavy rains smashed Australia's east coast on Monday, submerging towns and stranding residents on rooftops,…

Beijing punishes local officials for handling of deadly Henan floods

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing has punished almost 100 officials and company managers for dereliction of duty around catastrophic floods that hit Henan province and killed hundreds of people last July,…

Toll from floods in western Venezuela increases to 20

Caracas [Venezuela], August 26 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of people who lost their lives to floods and landslides in the western Venezuelan state of Merida has risen to 20, Jehyson Guzman,…

13 NDRF teams have been deployed in Bihar in view of monsoon rainfalls.

Patna (Bihar) [India], July 22 (ANI): Taking stock of the situation during monsoons rainfall in different districts of Bihar, 13 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), have been…

Cochin International Airport launches flood mitigation project ‘Operation Pravaah’

Kochi (Kerala) [India], July 4 (ANI): The Cochin International Airport Limited rolled out ‘Operation Pravaah’, a multifaceted infrastructure programme scoping to integrate flood mitigation projects already initiated by CIAL with…