News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 6 months ago
ET The Associated Press An aerial view shows inundated Patharprotima block near Sundarbans, about 150 kilometres south of Calcutta, India, on Wednesday. (Associated Press) Hundreds of thousands of people flooded out of their homes by deadly Cyclone...
News Source: News 24
| 6 months ago
Millions of people in India and Bangladesh remained marooned without food or water on Friday, four days after cyclone Aila hit, and authorities said disease was becoming a serious problem. The cyclone killed at least 275 people, but officials say the...
News Source: BBC South Asia
| 6 months ago
They say that many in the storm-hit areas now face acute clean water shortages as floodwater becomes stagnant and polluted. At least 200 people died in the storm in India and Bangladesh, with officials warning the final toll could be higher. Nearly...
News Source: BBC South Asia
| 6 months ago
Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal are still struggling with the aftermath of Cyclone Aila...Nearly half a million people are homeless and troops and border guards are helping the civil administrations in...
News Source: Hindustan times
| 6 months ago
With the recovery of three more bodies, the toll in the landslides in West Bengal's hill district of Darjeeling due to Cyclone Aila has risen to 27, police said on Thursday. "We have recovered three bodies from the debris at Rangiabong under...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 6 months ago
At least 100 forest personnel are deployed in Sunderban besides around 40 in the deep forests," NC Bahuguna, chief conservator of Forests, West Bengal said. Basic amenities such as food and water are being provided to the cyclone-hit villagers to...