Rescue Rangoon, June 17: Rescue workers were scrambling to provide aid to tens of thousands left homeless in western Burma and neighbouring Bangladesh on Thursday after floods and landslides killed more than 100 people.
Massive landslides triggered by overnight torrential rains killed 53 persons, burying some alive in Bangladesh's sea resort town of Cox's Bazar flattening shanties and makeshift structures.
Four separate landslides hit Cox's Bazar and Bandarban areas burying a number of people and leaving scores of others missing as heavy rains hamperered rescue efforts, the police said.
Mumbai Days ahead of the expected arrival of monsoon, the BMC has identified landslide-prone areas and served eviction notices, but most residents remain where they are for want of options.
The landslide-caused glacial lake in the Hunza Valley has put the Pakistani authorities on an emergency footing, but this catastrophe had been predicted for years.
Its only link to the outside world, the Anini-Roing road, having been hit by landslides at several places, Dibang Valley district in eastern Arunachal Pradesh has remained cut off from the rest of the world for more than six weeks now. The district shares 200 km of international border with China.
The Three Gorges dam was so vast and sweeping a vision that nothing could stand in its way. Not the old cities of the Yangtze valley, storehouses of human toil and treasure for more than a thousand years. Not the lush, low-lying farmlands, nor the villages, nor even the pagodas and temples that graced the riverbanks.
Mumbai: As part of its preparedness plans for monsoon 2010, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) served the first batch of warning notices on Friday to landslide-prone areas of the eastern suburbs.
The area around Kunwari Pass in Central Himalayas is the source of a number of streams that include Dhaknala, Karmanasa, Patalganga, Belakuchi and Garurganga. The first is the tributary of Dhauliganga whereas the rest drain into Alaknanda. These streams are known for the devastation they have caused in the past, due to the flash floods that followed blockade of these streams due to landslides.
Two persons were killed while 73 others, mostly tourists, had a narrow escape when avalanche struck a mountainous pass, two kilometres short of Changla Top on the Leh-Karu-Tangtse axis, en route to Pangong Lake bordering China in Ladakh region on Tuesday.
