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Last week, a flood hit several villages in Golen Gol area of Chitral district after a glacial lake burst its banks overnight, toppling electricity poles and inundating roads and farmlands. (Photo: ANI)

23 killed as cloud burst causes flood in Pok's Neelum Valley

Landslides were also reported and officials said many structures in Laswa's main market, including two mosques, were...

15 July 2019 5:00 PM IST

Vehicles are piled up on a street on Thursday in the wake of a flash flood brought about by torrential rainfall in Pune. (Photo: PTI)

Helpless man sees wife swallowed by flood waters in Pune

Pune Municipal Commissioner Saurabh Rao said the stream breached because of encroachments and narrowing of the Ambil...

27 Sept 2019 2:08 PM IST

Cars and trucks are stranded by high water Thursday, Sept 2, 2021, on the Major Deegan Expressway in Bronx borough of New York as high water left behind by Hurricane Ida still stands on the highway hours later. (AP/Craig Ruttle)

At least 44 dead as flash floods slam New York area

Ida blazed a trail of destruction north after slamming into Louisiana over the weekend, bringing severe flooding and...

3 Sept 2021 10:23 AM IST

An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel helps pilgrims on their way to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath. (PTI Photo)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Pilgrimages amid changing climate: Ensure...

What do pilgrimages mean in the time of climate change and the consequent rise in extreme weather events?

14 July 2022 11:34 PM IST

Swollen Beas river during incessant monsoon rainfall, in Kullu district, Monday, July 10, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | India looks helpless in face of monsoon fury

India has gone too far down the road to placing stress recklessly on the environment, particularly in hilly terrain.

11 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Anita Anand | Lessons to learn from Bhutan on what not to do in...

Three deputy ministers in Maldives heard this as putting down the exotic and pristine offerings of their country and...

18 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

The Godavari river is likely to rise in upstream reaches in Nashik, Ahmednagar and Aurangabad districts. (Photo: AP | Representational)

Maharashtra among 5 states warned of 'flash floods' by Centre

IMD indicates that 'heavy to very heavy rainfall' is likely at a few places and at isolated places over Konkan, Goa from...

7 Jun 2018 12:07 PM IST

Flood affected villagers move to safer place, in Araria district of Bihar. (Photo: PTI)

Fury of Nature

The water gushing down from Nepal is flooding rivers flowing west into India and the country is blaming road building in...

16 Aug 2017 1:56 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pexels)

Climate change means more rain but less water in rural rivers: study

Researchers point out that city infrastructure is struggling to cope with the harsher downpours.

15 Aug 2017 5:21 PM IST

Flood affected villagers move to safer place, in Araria district of Bihar. (Photo: PTI)

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar takes stock of floods as 41 killed

Mr Kumar said that in view of the deteriorating situation in Bihar, the Army and teams of NDRF have been deployed in the...

15 Aug 2017 12:32 AM IST

Several roads and bridges were also damaged. More than 1,000 people were dispatched to search for the missing people. (Photo: File)

More bodies found in China flash floods, death toll rises to 25

So far the flood has affected 577 people of 157 households and destroyed 71 houses.

9 Aug 2017 4:25 PM IST

Rescue operations underway after flash flood due to cloud burst hits Dodas Thathri village, in Jammu & Kashmir. (Photo: DC)

Cloudburst in J&K's Doda, Kishtwar kills 8; several missing

Eight people including five members of a family, a 12-year-old boy were, however, rescued.

20 July 2017 12:39 PM IST