Tag: Monsoon

EPD accelerates anti-dengue operation

The Punjab Environment Protection Department (EPD) has accelerated its special operations for dengue prevention during the ongoing monsoon season. This was revealed on Tuesday in...

District Administration gears up for another monsoon spell

Islamabad District Administration on Monday said that they were fully equipped and on high alert to deal with floods as another spell of monsoon...

Monsoon is going nowhere yet

Partly cloudy weather in the city on Tuesday provided a sigh of relief for the citizens while drizzling in various locations kept the weather...

Monsoon agitates Ravi, embankments being built

Against the local met office weather forecast for the provincial capital on Sunday morning, torrential rains lashed the city and its adjoining areas overnight,...

Ban on basement digging in monsoon season

The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) on Tuesday imposed a ban, with immediate effect, on digging basements in the entire district. Lahore District Coordination Officer...

Welcome to Venice…or is it Paris?

The MET office said that the city received more than 4mm rain with 83 percent humidity in air in the evening. The rain that...

Monsoon spell back with a bang

Torrential rains with thunder and lightning lashed upper Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Kashmir on Saturday turning the weather pleasant. Saidpur received 217 millimeters of...

Monsoon is not that pleasant in slums

The current monsoon rains pose a serious risk to slum dwellers where the concerned authorities have done little to avoid untoward incidents. Various slums are...

The monsoon paradox

The city continues its complex relationship with the Monsoon: on one hand, the rains bring relief from the hot, humid Lahori summer, on the...

LDA forms centre for monsoon related complaints

On the directives of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Sunday established a Complaint Centre at its Johar Town office for...

LWMC rolls up sleeves for monsoon

The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) has devised a new strategy for the monsoon season in order to avoid any inconvenience for the citizens....

India’s monsoon flooding kills nearly 600

Rescuers have found bodies in the River Ganges and in the muddy, broken earth left by landslides, raising the death toll from monsoon flooding...

Rain toll rises to 81 in India, thousands remain stranded

Monsoon rains wreaked fresh havoc in northern India leading to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslips as the death toll climbed to 81 and hundreds...

Say goodbye to pre-monsoon relief

A Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) official said on Monday that the ongoing pre-monsoon spell would end in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and other...

Monsoon Wedding to make Broadway debut in April 2014

Mira Nair doesn't work on the same subject twice. But, in the case of her acclaimed film Monsoon Wedding, she is making an exception....

Floods kill 455, affect five million: NDMA

Monsoon floods have killed 455 people over the past five weeks and affected more than five million, according to the latest figures from the...

Monsoon rain damage

The floods that have ravaged Pakistan for past few years, displacing millions of poor, are more of a man-made disaster, than a natural disaster....