By Editor: Adhya Kalra An Air India plane carrying 190 people on board including pilot and crew crashed at Calicut airport while landing in Kerala on 7th August 2020, Friday evening. 18 people including 2 pilots and 4 infants have lost their lives in a devastating accident. The Boeing 737 coming from Dubai […]
The Indus is the most important and vulnerable ‘water tower’, according to the first inventory of high-altitude water sources. Photograph: Parvesh Jain/Alamy A quarter of the world’s population are at risk of water supply problems as mountain glaciers, snow-packs and alpine lakes are run down by global heating and rising demand, according to an international […]
Several people are feared dead after a fire broke out in a house in Anaj Mandi on Rani Jhansi Road here on Sunday morning, a Delhi Fire Service official said. A call about the fire was received at 5:22 AM following which 30 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. Many people trapped inside were […]
Policemen remove branches from a damaged tree following the passage of Typhoon Kammuri south of Manila. (CNN)A powerful typhoon killed four people in the Philippines and prompted authorities to close the country’s largest airport due to powerful winds and heavy rains. Typhoon Kammuri, known locally as Tisoy, made landfall on the southeastern part of Luzon, […]
A whopping 22 million people would be displaced by December 31, 2019, due to extreme weather events. That is according to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) State of Global Climate 2019 released at the Conference of Parties 25 (CoP 25) in Madrid on December 3, 2019. “The number of new displacements associated with weather extremes could more than […]
Rescue personnel try to look for people after three houses collapsed in Coimbatore. Tamil Nadu Rains LIVE: Schools and colleges are shut in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry as the Met department issued a flood alert after heavy rainfall in the state. Rains lashed many parts of Tamil Nadu and neighbouring Puducherry on Sunday with the […]
He was speaking at the conference titled ‘Prediction skill of extreme precipitation events and tropical cyclones: present status and future prospects’. Professor Kerry Emanuel Experts discussed the rising risk of cyclones to humans at the inaugural session of an international conference and the annual climate change workshop at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) […]
NEW DELHI: Noting that 45% of its garbage remained unattended and piled up on roads even as Delhi had virtually been converted into a gas chamber, the Supreme Court said on Monday that the city was no longer liveable and had become worse than “narak” (hell) with people dying of various ailments due to pollution. […]
New Delhi(CNN)About 500,000 people have been evacuated from Bangladesh’s coastal region, as the nation waits for Cyclone Bulbul to hit on Saturday evening — according to the country’s disaster management minister. The cyclone was more than 124 miles (200 kilometres) away from the Bangladesh coast and moving at a speed of 15-20 km/h, Enamur Rahman […]
