Aloysius Xavier Lopez

It will help in planning flood mitigation measures for Chennai

- Embankment protecting town not repaired in five decades
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The shanties that have come up illegally on the embankment of the Torsha near Cooch Behar town. Picture by Main Uddin Chisti

Flood cover: weather disasters in Asia are on increase
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With diminished rice harvests, seawater seeping into aquifers and islands vanishing into rising oceans, Southeast Asia will be among the regions worst affected by global warming, according to a report scheduled for release on Monday by the Asian Development Bank.

The rise in sea levels may force the sprawling archipelago of Indonesia to redraw its sea boundaries, the report said.

Mumbai With heavy rains wrecking the daily lives of Mumbaikars becoming an accepted feature, the operations at the Mumbai airport also remains one of the areas that is affected when clouds burst over Mumbai every monsoon season.

The government had completed the construction of 300 feet flood protective wall to protect 2,000 people from floods in Gabari village Mulla Khiel, Orakzai Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata).

Spread over 11 states and comprising 23 sub-basins, the Ganga basin accounts for 50 per cent of the total 40 million hectares of the flood-prone land in the country.

Mumbai Pre-monsoon work on Peddar Road postponed for a month

A day after one-way traffic rule was imposed on Mumbai