Nepal needs $6.66 billion to rebuild infrastructure destroyed or damaged by the devastating earthquake in April and the aftershocks that followed, the country’s National Planning Commission said Sa

2 dead in Arunachal Pradesh; 10 districts marooned in Assam as lakhs affected

SURAT: Villagers of Umbargam taluka in Valsad district have threatened to launch an agitation to oppose the upcoming Nargol port project at the tip of Gujarat.

The situation was particularly grim in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts in eastern Assam, where nearly 45,000 people have been affected.

With the onset of monsoon in the northeast, Assam has been hit by the first wave of floods affecting over 60,000 people in nine districts of the state.At least one person has been washed away in th

KATHMANDU, June 5: The government teams assigned to carry out post-earthquake damages and needs assessment for reconstruction works submitted their preliminary reports to the National Planning Comm

The World Bank approved $125 million to support the restoration of resilient flood protection infrastructure and the strengthening of government capacity to manage disasters and climate variability

The city of Kolkata is one of the most urbanized and densely populated regions in the world and a major industrial and commercial hub of the eastern and northeastern region of India. In order to classify the seismic risk zones of Kolkata we used seismic hazard exposures on the vulnerability components, namely land use/land cover, population density, building typology, age and height.

Natural disasters and climate change are interrelated macro-critical issues affecting all Pacific small states to varying degrees. In addition to their devastating human costs, these

LAHORE: The Punjab Disaster Management Authority has set up a state-of-the-art Humanitarian Resource Facility in the provincial capital to help more than 100,000 victims during any natural disaster

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