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India to import food amid drought
New Delhi :: India | 3 months ago
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The minister, Pranab Mukherjee, did not specify what would be imported and when, saying he wanted to avoid speculation on prices...Food prices have risen by 10% after poor monsoon rains hit sowing. Monsoon rains are critical to India's farmers. 'Grim...
Tags: India, Sharad Pawar, basmati rice, Pranab Mukherjee, monsoon rains, MEP, finance minister, rice mep, minister pranab
Monsoon rains awaited in upper Punjab
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
Credibility The people of Upper Punjab, Kashmir and some parts of Sindh are still anxiously waiting for the soothing (most delightful) season of monsoon to come and sweep away the impact of scorching blaze of summer. The monsoon rains will be blessing for those suffering...
Tags: monsoon rains
South Asia fights disease, seeks aid
Barabanki :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Monsoon rains, burst dams and overflowing embankments have unleashed heavy floods in the region this year, killing more than 1,500 people, mostly in India but also in Nepal. Water levels are receding at most places, but the spectre of disease has risen,...
Tags: flood, monsoon rains, poverty, floods
Severity of Bihar floods intensifies
Bihār :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility The scale of the disaster becomes increasingly serious as the number of people forced to leave their homes by the floods rises to five million, including three million children. Some of these children will be living in temporary camps until April 2009...
Tags: monsoon rains, Kosi River, India, aid workers, Nepal, Mother Kosi
Disease fears for flood-devastated India, Nepal
New Delhi :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Hundreds of thousands of flood victims huddled into makeshift camps in India and Nepal face major disease outbreaks if help fails to reach them quickly, aid workers warned. They said several camps in India's northern Bihar state and across the border...
Tags: monsoon rains, north Bihar, Bihar State, India, Nepal, change course, Kosi river, aid workers, flooding victims, Madhepura
River of sorrow' threatens more floods
Bihār :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Rising rivers in eastern India swamped new areas and destroyed homes on Tuesday, aff ecting more than 2 million people, as some frustrated villagers beat up officials and others remained glued to radio weather bulletins. Torrential rains have killed more...
Tags: monsoon rains, India, Bihar, eastern india
Disastrous Monsoon Rains in India Leaving 1 Million Homeless!
Authorities struggled Monday to get aid to more than 1 million people stranded by floods in a north Indian state, with one local government leader describing the situation as a catastrophe. Air force helicopters and troops were trying to get food to...
Tags: Monsoon Rains, India
Flood waters enter parts of Lucknow
Lucknow :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility With the river Gomti in spate, the flood waters on Tuesday engulfed several semi-urban localities of this Uttar Pradesh capital, and some upscale areas were under threat. "It is not just the downpour in the river's catchment area upstream that is responsible...
Tags: india, monsoon rains, Gomti, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi, Waliullah
Monsoon death toll tops 700 in India
Patna :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility More than 700 people have died in flooding and storms across India since the monsoon hit in June, officials said Friday after reporting 27 more dead in Uttar Pradesh. India's most populated state has accounted for 660 deaths, relief commissioner G.K.
Tags: flood, india, monsoon rains, monsoon death, Indian Air Force
Floods Leave Thousands Homeless in India, Nepal
Lucknow :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Indian commuters make their way through a waterlogged street after a heavy downpour flooded parts of Amritsar on August 13, 2008. (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images) At least 50,000 people are left homeless in India and 30,000 in Nepal after severe floods...
Tags: India, northern india, monsoon rains, heavy monsoon, thousands homeless, Uttar Pradesh
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