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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Nor’wester across country kills 24, causes losses
At least 24 people were killed and hundreds of others injured while houses, cropland and institutions damaged during Saturday’s nor’wester across the country. An unidentified 60-year-old man, hit by
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Tornado kills 3, injures 5 in Myanmar northernmost state
YANGON, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and five others injured as tornado hit two villages in Phakant, Myanmar's northernmost Kachin state, local media reported Monday. The tornado struck
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Regional climate change talks begin in Khulna tomorrow
Bangladesh will host a three-day regional consultation of the “Nansen Initiative” on climate change, disasters, and human mobility in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, beginning tomorrow in Khulna.
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Application of a new methodology for coastal multi-hazard-assessment & management on the state of Karnataka, India
This paper presents the application of a new methodology for coastal multi-hazard assessment & management under a changing global climate on the state of Karnataka, India. The recently published methodology
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WB to construct 330 new disaster shelters by 2017
DHAKA : The World Bank (WB) will construct at least 330 new cyclone shelters in the cyclone prone areas of Bangladesh by 2017, reports BSS. Official sources said the WB under its Emergency 2007 Cyclone
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90pc of cyclone-hit people now above poverty line: survey
Around 90 percent of the beneficiaries of a World Bank project for victims of cycles Sidr and Aila now have annual income upwards of Tk 60,000 on average, according to a household survey of 2014. Around
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India should prepare to face extreme weather, warn scientists
Around the same time as Cyclone Pam flattened the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu early this month, untimely rains and hailstorms lashed Maharashtra in India destroying at least 5.5 million hectares
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U.N. targets shelter, water in $29.9 million appeal for cyclone-hit Vanuatu
Less than two weeks after Cyclone Pam tore through the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, 110,000 people have no safe drinking water and some 75,000 urgently need shelter, the United Nations said on Tuesday
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Cyclone on course to smash into Australian coast a second time
Three days after making landfall, Cyclone Nathan continued to threaten Australian coastal communities, with 400 residents of a remote northern island on Monday ordered to evacuate after meteorologists
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NZ boosts Vanuatu aid contribution to $3.5m
New Zealand will boost its aid contribution to Vanuatu to $3.5 million dollars to help the cyclone-ravaged nation recover. A further $1 million was announced today by Foreign Minister Murray McCully