floods

Each department tries to pass the buck on to other

All victims were closely related, most of them from the same family

Accident happened when a pick-up truck carrying the groom's party of 29 people was hit by floodwater

About 50,000 people have been evacuated as storms damaged crops and caused more than 3,000 houses to collapse

The country has been worst hit, with homes and bridges destroyed after days of torrential monsoon rains

More than half a million people in the hardest-hit provinces of Henan and Hebei displaced

Irrigation secretary unsatisfied with pace of work in Ghotki, Khairpur

45 people died between July 1 and 10, PDMA report states

The rain was 35 percent above average in the week that ended on July 6, the weather office said

CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan asks senior officials to stay vigilant for next 24 hours as more heavy rain is forecast

More than a million people were forced to evacuate their homes and relocate, says state news agency Xinhua

Afghanistan charges Rs20,000 for the return of corpses

Mehmoodur Rasheed says he will visit vulnerable areas after Eid

The people of Chitral are much to be pitied as what they suffer is not their fault

Officials earlier put the total number of people killed in K-P at 43, saying that 41 of them died in Chitral

Britain's Met office says further showers and thunderstorms are expected in London and the southeast

No casualties reported; livestock, infrastructure adversely affected

Rescuers are searching for people in the southern prefecture of Kumamoto

Hundreds of rescuers were searching through wrecked houses and mounds of earth for 19 villagers still missing

Footage aired by local broadcasters shows villagers sitting on their roofs to escape the rising water

Thousands of acres of agricultural land and food dept warehouse also inundated

It is the weather that is the source of the catastrophic floods in recent years

Six of the group were swept away by the wave but one 15-year-old girl managed to grab hold of some driftwood

Volunteers trained to deal with challenges including floods

The peak is expected to beat the levels reached during floods in 1982

Parisians were urged to avoid the banks of the river which was expected to reach a peak of six metres (19 feet) Friday

A number of people had to be rescued from their cars trapped in the floods

DMC says 67 bodies have been recovered from the worst hit central district of Kegalle

Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake says 35,000 homes damaged in heaviest rains in 25 years

Soldiers and other rescuers discovered 13 more bodies late on Saturday in the worst-hit district of Kegalle

'Floodwater levels in parts of the capital subsided a little overnight' disaster officials say

Heaviest rains in a quarter of a century have pounded the island since last weekend

Over 200,000 individuals have been displaced by the floods

The government has deployed troops to evacuate people living on slopes or in flood-hit areas

Intense heat has caused glaciers to melt

Reject officials’ claim that politically-backed groups involved in illegal cutting of trees.

Rain came down at rates as high as four inches an hour on Monday, Weather Channel reports

Six other people injured and 18 rescued in the region

Minister says work on protection programme to begin after council’s approval

Riyadh implemented its emergency plan to deal with the flooding

Owners report individual losses up to Rs100 million; survey to assess damage under way

Everyday disasters have a higher fatality rate than mega-disasters

Most of the death and destruction from flash floods and landslides took place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

During the rainy season last summer, torrential downpours and flooding killed 81 people and affected almost 300,000

Severe weather hits the country every year, with hundreds killed and huge tracts of farmland destroyed

A landslide buried 13 of the victims, while two others drowned in the floodwaters

The findings are another indication the stable climate in which human civilization has flourished is coming to an end

Decision taken during CM’s visit to Nepal to help prevent losses caused by floods

'Extreme rainfall is more likely to occur in a changing climate' scientist at Oxford University

Yasmeen Lari was inspired to rethink post-disaster construction after 2010 floods