Ashik Miah, a 45-year-old farmer of Jaladhartupi village, was staring helplessly at his inundated paddy field as he sat beside Dekhar Haor at Dakshin Sunamganj upazila. “I cultivated Boro on around ...

Resilience building in flood-prone areas require capacity-building of the community so that people can anticipate, absorb, adapt, mitigate and transfer disaster risk Villagers try to repair a breached ...

The tragedy of floods in Bihar is an annual saga. This year, according to the eastern Indian state’s disaster management department, 1,333 villages in 16 districts were flooded, affecting a population ...

While we need some time to understand the extent of damage Cyclone Sitrang has caused, I assume that the overall damage would be much less than previous such calamities. I have learnt from the ...

A report prepared by a civil society-based fact-finding team on the flooding in north Bihar has asserted that the embankments along the Kosi river have been the chief cause of misery. NEW DELHI: A ...

Residents of at least three riverside villages in South 24-Parganas’s Gosaba on Saturday took out a march with posters demanding concrete embankments, instead of relief material which, according to ...

A study finds a combination of rising sea levels due to climate change and man-made flooding problems threaten Bangladesh Man-made flood protections, not climate change, are the main culprit in ...

LAHORE: To safeguard against flooding in the coming monsoon season, the pace of work on the construction of preliminary flood protection embankments along the 46km-long stretch of the River Ravi has ...

Hundreds of people in Hanoi's Quoc Oai District reinforced embankments to prevent floods on Sunday, following two days of torrential downpours. At 5 a.m., floodwater from a forest in Hoa Binh Province ...

Life had come to a standstill in the Ganga-Brahmaputra floodplains where large tracts of land were reeling under floods. Everywhere there were submerged houses, broken bridges, and wasted railway ...

Despite all the money spent on repairing and restoring the embankments, in Khulna people are suffering, as the embankments collapse every now and then. Not only does the Bangladesh Water Development ...

Embankments on rivers are no solution to the problem of flood in Bihar.In fact, the floods are now affecting more areas now than the state had with less number of embankments, feel experts. Once if it ...