Tag: Floods
Floods drown Asia’s rice bowl
Massive floods have ravaged vast swathes of Asia’s rice bowl, threatening to further drive up food prices and adding to the burden of farmers...
Sindh floods to inflate urea price
The prices of urea are likely to go up during the coming months due to flood situation in the Sindh province, analysts have warned....
60 dead, four million affected in India floods
Sixty people have died and four million have been affected by flooding in eastern India that has led to a major relief effort from...
NDMA believes over 400 dead in rains, floods
Pakistan’s recent torrential floods, triggered by heavy monsoon rains in different parts of the country, killed at least 412 people and injured 1,172 others...
Floods in Sindh are a wake-up call, says Zardari
President Asif Ali Zardari said on Friday that the destruction caused by floods during the last two years was a wake-up call for everyone...
Two million sick from floods in Sindh
Two million Pakistanis have fallen ill from diseases since monsoon rains left the southern region under several feet of water, the country’s disaster authority...
Tackling floods head-on
The recent deluge in Sindh has hit the region at a time when Pakistan is still struggling to recover from last year’s flash flooding...
Was it really the floods, Mr PM?
It was not the flood situation or the dengue scare in the country that led to the cancellation of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s...
Gilani calls off US visit due to floods
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday cancelled a visit to the United States to address the UN General Assembly because of widespread new...
Rains, floods played havoc in Sindh: Firdous
Federal Information Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that the rains and floods have played havoc in Sindh.
"Majority of the people, property and...
26 die in Indian floods, 200,000 evacuated
Twenty-six people have died and nearly 200,000 have been evacuated as a result of massive flooding in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, a...
Pakistan’s breadbasket reels from more floods
One year after record floods left 21 million Pakistanis reeling, thousands living on the country's southern fertile plains have seen their homes washed away...
No let up in flood chaos in Sindh
Unprecedented rains and floods continued to cause widespread devastations in interior Sindh.
In Naushero Feroze, influential people created breaches in streams to save their lands,...
1,400 rescued from Badin’s floods
More than 1,400 people have been moved to safety from Badin’s flood-ravaged areas of Tarai, Pingrio and Khoski, says Pakistan Navy.
According to a Pakistan...
Floods in Sindh: aid pours in but where are rulers?
Floods in the lower districts of Sindh have claimed more than 200 lives. Thousands of residents have been left stranded by rising floodwaters, nearly...
Floods cripple the country
Monsoon rain crippled Karachi and the government came under pressure to provide relief for about 300,000 people left homeless by floods in rural Sindh,...
UN steps in as floods kill over 200
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Monday that at least 209 people had been killed by recent floods in southern Sindh, as...
