State agricultural minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay yesterday conducted a review meeting of Hooghly district zilla parishad to assess the total loss of paddy crops and vegetables due to untimely heavy rainfall followed by cyclone Dana and also from the release of water from DVC dams.
The building department of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is keeping a tab on old dilapidated buildings in view of the heavy rainfall and storm which may hit the city as fallout of cyclone Dana.
The low-lying areas of Durgapur have been inundated due to heavy rainfall, and the district magistrate of West Burdwan, S. Ponnambalam, has directed the civil administration to relocate marooned people to safer areas.
Battered by the torrential downpour, the worst is over for Chennai as the deep depression in the Bay of Bengal, expected to bring extremely heavy rainfall, has moved towards Tirupati and Nellore in south coastal Andhra Pradesh.
Continuous heavy rainfall has destroyed most of the flowering plants at the ‘valey of flowers’ at Hossainpur under Haroa in North 24-Parganas, one of the major flower supplier villages to city
Heavy rainfall in Delhi-NCR that started on Thursday, led to widespread waterlogging and severe traffic jams on Friday morning.
At least 19 people were killed when a motorway in China's Guangdong province collapsed on Wednesday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Pakistan's Railways officials said the railway track has drowned under the rainwater, leading to the suspension of goods trains in Iran.
China’s State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters has activated a Level-IV emergency response to flooding in nine provincial-level regions.…
China’s meteorological authorities on Sunday issued a blue alert for severe convective weather in vast stretches of the country. From…
