The heavy rain over the past one week and more has claimed more lives and caused further crop loss across the State.

Several parts of Karnataka have been receiving unseasonable rain damaging a variety of summer crops and forcing people to remain indoors in urban areas.

Widespread heavy rain, caused by an upper air cyclonic trough, lashed the State for the second day on Sunday, claiming six lives and extensively damaging standing crops in several districts.

A severe cyclonic storm hit Badarpur at midnight on Friday. The storm damaged a large numbers of houses, trees, electric posts, telephone wires etc in the town and adjacent villages.

Ninety per cent of natural disasters are weather, climate and water related, Meteorology Department Director G. B. Samarasinghe said.

Heavy rains are wreaking havoc in north Telangana districts with standing crops getting damaged resulting in huge losses to the farmers.

More than three years after the devastating tsunami hit the Tamil Nadu coast, rehabilitation measures are still underway.

China's northwestern region of Xinjiang was hit by a major earthquake and several strong aftershocks early Friday, the country's official media and earthquake monitoring centers reported.

A hailstorm swept through eight villages of Monohardi upazila of the district on Monday night, leaving a man dead and 50 others injured.

More than 25 people were feared to have been buried alive in a massive landslide triggered by melting snow in the higher reaches of the hills at Nehru Kund near the famous tourist resort of Manali in