FEBRUARY 2 Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced to spend Rs 53.71 crore to deal with 55 flooding spots before this monsoon. Total of 146 spots have been identified. The BMC has proposed to start 25 night shelters under the night shelter support scheme. Currently, 10 shelters operational, 11 […]
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Images of Disasters – January 2018
January 4, 2018 Fire disaster at Hotel Siddharth Continental in Delhi kills 37, leaving 46 injured. Due to fire , the lower half of the nine-storey Hotel Siddharth Continental turned into ashes 4 people killed and 5 injured in a fire broke out in Andheri East’s Mamoon Manzil […]
Rwanda Seventh-Day Adventist churchgoers killed by lightning
A lightning strike killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more at a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Rwanda on Saturday, an official said. Most of the victims died instantly when lightning hit the church in the southern district of Nyaruguru, local mayor Habitegeko Francois told AFP. Two people died […]
Japan marks 7 years since earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster
apan on Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of a deadly earthquake and tsunami that killed almost 15,000 people and triggered an unprecedented nuclear meltdown, rendering some lands uninhabitable. At around 2:46 p.m. on March 11, a magnitude-9 earthquake, the biggest ever recorded in the nation’s history and one of the five most powerful […]