Tag: Floods

Heavy flooding in eastern India has killed 18 people and displaced almost 100,000 over the past week, government and aid officials said on Monday,...

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Monday said that at least 209 people have been killed by recent floods in southern Sindh. While briefing...

Badin district, which has already been adversely affected by heavy rains, faces the threat of more floods as the multi-billion-rupee Left Bank Outfall Drain...

Up to 2.5 million children are affected by severe monsoon floods in southern Pakistan and with many still recovering from the worst floods in...

Heavy rain swamped areas of the US northeast already sodden from Hurricane Irene, with up to five people killed as flash floods forced over...

Ongoing flood has killed at least 17 in Noushehro Feroz, Badin, Sanghar and Hyderabad. According to media reports, the torrential rains continued to lash parts...

Storm Lee grew weaker and was chugging along as a tropical depression Monday, but it still threatened to bring flash floods and tornados to...

Thousands remained cut off by severe flooding across Vermont, New Jersey and upstate New York Wednesday in the lingering aftermath of Hurricane Irene, which...

The extent of Hurricane Irene's destruction became clearer as the northeastern US states of New York and Vermont battled record flooding and the death...

Dozens of villages in Kasur and Bahawalnagar villages were inundated as the water level in the River Sutlej increased on Sunday. Thousands were left...

The Sindh government completely ignored Badin district and Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD), the biggest drain in the province, in the Sindh Flood Contingency...

Kasur is beset with A flooding threat, as water level at Ganda Singh point is persistently rising after India let go of water into...

Banks achieved over 97 per cent of agricultural credit disbursement target during the last fiscal year 2010-11 despite devastating floods in the country that...

Doing away with parallel overlapping systems and establishment of fully functional, well-resourced and integrated disaster management system at the grass-root level could ensure a...

This month marks a year since Pakistan faced the worst floods in its history. The deluge devastated and submerged entire villages, roads, bridges, water...

Last year’s floods devastated many parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Thousands of people had become homeless whereas infrastructure worth billion of rupees infrastructure was washed...

We at the Pakistan Red Crescent Society are taking this to heart as we assist survivors of last year’s monstrous floods in their recovery....