Victims of the Koshi floods clashed with the police at Haripur in Sunsari district on Monday.
Some four police officers and two displaced have been injured in the clash. The injured include police personnel Navin Kumar Ghimire, Dorje Tamang, Durga Khadka, Mukunda Gurung and displaced Mahendra Nath Pathak.

Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall since Friday continue to claim lives in various mid and farwestern districts of the country. Thousands have been displaced while hundreds are still awaiting rescue in their waterlogged villages.
In Kanchanpur district alone, the death toll has reached 15, with seven more reported deaths, most of them children.

Debabrata Mohanty Posted: Sep 23, 2008 at 0140 hrs IST

Bhubaneswar, Sept 22 The flood situation in Orissa may not improve anytime soon as another depression is being formed over the Bay of Bengal that would only add to the woes of the 37 lakh flood-affected people in 18 districts.

River Above Danger Mark But Many Refuse To Move
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New Delhi: The Yamuna once again attained threatening proportions on Monday as the river crossed the danger mark of 204.83 m. Several low lying areas along the bank were evacuated and hundreds of slum dwellers took shelter along the main Yamuna Pushta road.

Everybody loves a natural disaster (Editorial)

The Kosi floods were a predictable ecological event. But Indian politicians have no time for the science of rivers, writes Jayanta Bandyopadhyay The author is professor at IIM Calcutta. He drafted the chapter on the world

In a significant policy shift, Assam Government has prioritised erosion over floods, identifying it as a more dangerous threat, even as Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi called for special packages for erosion-affected areas and border area development. Erosion is a more serious threat than floods.

Abhay Mohan Jha

Western Kusaha (Nepal): After the Kosi catastrophe that unleashed widespread devastation, the central question is whether the spurs

Rescue teams evacuating people from the Yamuna bank on Sunday

NEW DELHI: The Yamuna is in spate and a high alert has been sounded. After the river rose to 204.60 metres on Sunday evening, authorities expecting the worst have begun the process of evacuation of people from around the river bed. The river is expected to surpass the danger level of 204.83 metres by Monday morning.

Haryana Releases Highest Quantity Of Water In 10 Years, Evacuation Likely
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Rescue workers evacuated some 200,000 people after flooding by one of India's largest rivers killed 16 people at the weekend, officials said on Sunday.

Large parts of the coastal Orissa state were inundated after authorities were forced to open dozens of sluice gates of a dam on the Mahanadi river following heavy rain in the catchment area.