Tag: floods

• Residents evacuated, infrastructure damaged • Situation under control, ready to tackle pressure: CE I&C• Kupwara & Handwara hit hard, rescue operations underway• 336 families from flood-affected areas moved to safer places• 51 villages partially inundated• Twochildren among 8 injured after house collapsed in Uri     Srinagar, Apr29: ...

NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir have been grappling with continuous rainfall that has wreaked havoc in several regions including higher reaches. Torrential rains in the valley have triggered flash floods in parts of Kupwara in northern Kashmir causing damages to buildings and roads. Moreover, the Sarbal area of Sonamarg ...

Researchers from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom, who worked on the report, found:El Nino Southern Oscillation played a key role “and was found to be important to explain the variability in the observed rainfall.” Interestingly, in Oman and ...

Srinagar: Incessant rainfall across Kashmir valley has resulted in flash floods, inundation of roads, leading to the temporarily closure of Kupwara-Sopore national highway in North Kashmir, official said on Monday. An official from civil administration told that the heavy downpour has caused rapid increase in the water level, inundation ...

Incessant rainfall across Kashmir valley has resulted in flash floods, inundation of roads, leading to the temporarily closure of Kupwara-Sopore national highway in North Kashmir, official said on Monday. Speaking to the news agency — Kashmir News Observer (KNO), an official from civil administration told that the heavy downpour ...

Highlighting the reality of climate change in India, the report stated that:Severe heat waves from April-June led to at least 110 deaths in the country.Even as rains in the summer-monsoon were below average in India, floods and storms from July-August “resulted in more than 600 reported deaths across India, ...

ISLAMABADNearly 100 people were killed and dozens of others injured in rain-triggered incidents during the last one week after heavy rains and floods hit the northwestern and southwestern parts of Pakistan.According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), heavy rains caused flash floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Balochistan, and ...

New Delhi: Heavy thunderstorms battered the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, unleashing an unprecedented flood situation in Dubai, swamping major highways and crippling operations at its international airport. The downpour exceeded the typical rainfall for over a year and a half.  Meteorological data collected at Dubai International Airport revealed ...

islamabad —  Authorities in Pakistan and Afghanistan said Tuesday that intense unseasonal rainfall, lightning and floods across both neighboring countries had killed at least 100 people over the past several days. A spokesman for the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority said floods had caused human and material losses in ...

At least 50 people have been killed in heavy rains and lightning across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said, as authorities declared a state of emergency in some regions. Farmers harvesting wheat died after being struck by lightning. Rains caused dozens of houses to collapse in the ...