Indo-Tibetan Friendship Association handed over a cheque of Rs 9 lakh to Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu towards Aapda Rahat Kosh-2023 at Vidhan Sabha Shimla on Thursday following the recent floods and landslides in the hill state.
“Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects. Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods. Sweltering temperatures spawning disease,” he said in a speech to open the Climate Ambition Summit, happening alongside the UN General Assembly in New York, as per CNN.
The Himachal Pradesh Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution demanding the Union government to declare destruction caused by recent heavy rains in the state as a national disaster.
Personnel of Odisha's State Disaster Relief Force rescued the occupants of a car, who were stranded after it got stuck in a flooded road in the Jagatsinghpur area.
The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has expanded its humanitarian relief operations and programmes for those affected by the storms, torrents, and floods that hit Libya.
“In July, we received good rainfall and at the time a flood alert was issued. The valley has been witnessing a dry now for the last three months. Jhelum, which is the main water body, has almost dried up at many places,” Field Officer Fisheries Department, Baljeet Singh said.
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala slammed the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government over the floods at Omkareshwar saying that the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister has committed a crime against the divine.
Chief Minister of Gujarat, Patel Bhupendrabhai Rajnikant, in response to flood-like situation in various parts of the state, said relief and rescue operations have been effectively carried out by the administration and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Fo
In an ongoing rescue operation, the National Disaster Response Force(NDRF) on Monday evacuated 110 people from the village of Lakheswari in the Aravalli district of Gujarat where heavy rain caused flooding in the low-lying areas, said officials.
The United Nations has amended the previous death toll from Libya floods, stating that at least 3,958 people have died instead of 11,300 as was earlier reported by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), CNN reported.