All posts tagged "Disaster"
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2.1KEnvironmentNo flood threat ‘as of now’ as water levels recede
Srinagar: The threat of floods has considerably reduced as the water levels have started receding gradually in nallah Sindh and other rivers...
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1.9KNewsTwo tropical storms ‘almost simultaneous threats’ to US Gulf Coast
New Delhi: There are possibilities of two newly formed tropical storms Laura and Marco becoming ‘almost simultaneous threats’ to the US Gulf...
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1.8KDisasterLocusts wreak havoc in Pakistan, cotton and vegetable crop hit as invasion covers more than country’s total-crop-area
Swarms of locusts spreading across Pakistan are emerging as a bigger threat to the country’s economy than the coronavirus pandemic, with the...
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1.7KDisasterEarthquake with epicentre near Srinagar strikes Jammu and Kashmir, no damage reported
Srinagar: An earthquake of 3.9 magnitude on the Richter Scale struck Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday morning at around 8:16 am, triggering...
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1.5KDisasterCyclone Nisarga makes landfall 100 km from Mumbai, nearly 1 lakh people evacuated
Cyclone Nisarga began the landfall process around noon on Wednesday near the coastal town of Alibag, around 100 kilometres south of Mumbai,...
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1.8KGovernanceKashmir: New rules for inbound passengers; pregnant women, cancer patients will not be sent to govt quarantine
Srinagar: The government in a fresh order regarding inbound passengers by air and train, has said that everyone who arrives in Jammu...
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2.3KDisasterPIA aircraft with 90 passengers on board crashes near Jinnah Airport in Karachi
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft on Friday crashed in Model Colony near Jinnah international airport Karachi. PIA spokesperson Abdul Sattar confirmed...
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4.5KDisasterSrinagar’s sordid saga: How Bemina choked the city
A slew of summertime flood predictions cast a looming shadow on Srinagar where battle for spaces has long turned flood basins into...
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3.5KDisasterSrinagar’s sordid saga: Dwelling in disaster-prone areas
2014 did to Kashmiris what many years of battered conflict couldn’t do. Such a shocker however, has not served as a wakeup call....
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1.8KGovernanceOnly few millimetres of rainfall caused such an abnormal rise in water levels, says KCCI, expresses concern
Srinagar: The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) expressed concern at the abrupt rise in water levels in the flood channel...
