Annual climate summary 2023
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
Cyclones
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Lessons from Cyclone Aila
The Sunderbans have a more valuable role to play Barun Roy / New Delhi July 2, 2009, 2:04 IST The Sunderbans have a more valuable role to play than to merely sustain human populations and activities.
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Pitiful plunder
The social, environmental and economic destruction that results from the plunder of land in Bangladesh by the shrimp industry is pitiful.
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Change in Central calamity relief norms sought
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Subject Committee Report on Disaster Management Policy has called for a change in Central calamity relief norms and the reworking of the relief measures laid down in the National Calamity Scheme. The report has also identified inadequate funds as the biggest hurdle in the smooth implementation of the State
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Kerala asked to submit project for cyclone preparedness
Thiruvananthapuram: Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran has asked the Kerala government to submit a Rs.400-crore project to the Centre for assistance to improve preparedness for cyclones.
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Cyclone Aila pulls down hills
May 26, 2009 was the darkest day for people living in the Darjeeling hills. Cyclone Aila struck with fury. Around 27 people died and hundreds were left homeless. Landslides ripped homes, electricity connections snapped and roads were left in tatters.
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A special report on "Aila", the cyclone that struck on May 25. Now, with 400 km-long embankment breached, people of Sunderbans live with threat of a high tide causing further damage. It calls for a long-term policy on behalf of the islanders for saving the Sunderbans. See Also Report: Boiling point - containing the 'spill over' of climate change
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150-year old mud structures
Sunderbans expert Tushar Kanjilal said the destruction was severe because Aila had hit during the high tide.
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Aila was imperialist design
Sunderbans islanders are caught between a shameless North and a callous South THE district administration in southern West Bengal got the warning for Aila, the cyclone to hit Sagar Island, about 20 hours in advance (see
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Lessons from a Tsunami
? A massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit Indonesia off the west coast of Sumatra on the morning of December 26,2004, at 6:58 a.m. Another earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred 81km west of Pulo Kunji (Great Nicobar, India) at 9:51 a.m. on the same day. The earthquakes set off giant tsunamis three to 10 metres high, which travelled 2,000km across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal.