New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Each year floods ravage Assam, almost like a ritual. Every time, lives are lost, property damaged and hundreds are forced to dislocate. He says he has "lived" with floods since childh

New Delhi, August 20 (IANS) The unparalleled levels of rainfall this year across the country, one of the impacts of global warming according to experts, also draw into an associated issue which is the 'unch

Yangon, August 12 (IANS) Myanmar's Department of Disaster Management said that more than 45,000 people were currently in relief shelters across the country due to floods triggered by surging river levels am

Kabul, July 24 (IANS) At least 31 people have been killed in devastating flash floods that hit parts of Afghanistan, authorities said. In a press conference from Kabul, Shafiullah Rahimi, spokesman for Talib

More rainfall expected in the coming days   Morung Express News  Dimapur | June 16  With Nagaland set to experience more rainfall in the coming days beginning from June 16 up to June 24, a

PARIS, October 5 (Reuters): Four people have died and up to 18 more are missing in floods and heavy rain in southern France, a spokeswoman for Alpes Maritimes prefecture said on Monday. Southern France

ABUJA, September 14 (Reuters): Mal Shehu Ladan took a boat across what was, until this month, a growing rice paddy. Now, like thousands of hectares of rice in Nigeria's Kebbi state, it is under wa

KHARTOUM, September 8 (Reuters): Record floods in Sudan have threatened sites housing the royal pyramids of Meroe and Nuri, two of the country's most important archaeological areas, an official said on

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, September 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): In a small village in northern Afghanistan, nestled in barren mountains and cut off from main roads, Arsam points to what is left of his hou

Mumbai, July 28 (Reuters): Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in two of India's poorest states have displaced or affected 8 million people and killed 111 since May, authorities said on Tuesday, at a time

New Delhi, July 26 (ANI):  As many as 10 people lost their lives in the Bihar floods as heavy rains lash the state. Over 10 Lakh people have been affected in ten districts across the state, and nearly 1

Guwahati, July 1 (IANS):  The ongoing wave of floods in Assam, triggered by the monsoon rains, claimed six more lives on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 33, besides affecting around 15 lakh people in 2

Noklak, June 29 (MExN): Following the occurrence of torrential rainfall and landslide, there are reports of damages caused to a number of paddy fields belonging to the villagers of New Pangsha, Old Pangsha and