India

 Small mercy

Andaman s tourism industry alive due to new phenomenon

Publication Date: 
14/04/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Tsunami, Tourism
India

 Tsunami swept worries

The new environment minister of Somalia's non-resident government has urged the UN to examine the nature of the possible hazardous waste washed ashore in the country following the recent tsunami

Publication Date: 
14/04/2005
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Tsunami, Hazardous Products, Somalia
Wildlife

 Un tidy relocation

Tamil Nadu s post tsunami coastal regulation bid is misdirected

Publication Date: 
30/03/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Coastal Development, Tsunami, Legislation, Government Of India (GOI), Tamil Nadu
Agriculture

 Prey again

Andaman villages now deal with crocodile menace

Publication Date: 
30/03/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Tsunami, Crocodiles
India

 Perturbing

Sumatra quake pushes water into Andhra s dry wells

Publication Date: 
14/03/2005
Lakshmi Narayan Coyalkar
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Wells, Tsunami, Research, India, Andhra Pradesh
India

 South Asia

tsunami Answerability: Sri Lanka's president Chandrika Kumaratunga has got an inquiry initiated into the government's failings in averting the destruction caused by the tsunami waves on December 26,

Publication Date: 
14/03/2005
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Tsunami, Road Transport, Legislation, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
India

 Hidden behind sea walls

Reasons for Kerala government s love for a harmful exercise

Publication Date: 
27/02/2005
Sridevi Pillai
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tsunami, Disaster Preparedness, Rehabilitation, Governance, Kerala
India

 Redundant relief?

Supreme Court order on tree felling in Andaman criticised

Publication Date: 
14/02/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Deforestation, Tsunami, Supreme Court
Natural Disasters

Stepping on the gas

India has entered Phase II of tackling the tsunami disaster. It is now readying to rebuild and rehabilitate the affected areas and develop disaster prevention and management systems.

Publication Date: 
30/01/2005
Week (Kochi)
Tags:
Tsunami, Disaster Management, Rehabilitation, UNDP, India, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu
Natural Disasters

Brick by brick

Even as relief work continues in areas devastated by the tsunami, the corpus of the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund has quietly swelled to around Rs 500 crore. The money is said to be the largest corpus ever collected through the fund.
This is just money that has been sent as Demand Drafts. "Cheques still need to be processed and taken into account," said a PMO official.

Publication Date: 
23/01/2005
K.P. Narayana Kumar
Week (Kochi)
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Tsunami, World Bank, India, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu

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