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Natural Disasters
Worst La Nina in 40 years
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2011
SEVERAL countries in the Southern Hemisphere experienced their worst floods in decades in the past two months. While intense rainfall for over a month kept parts of Australia inundated for weeks, severe floods and landslides killed hundreds of people in Brazil and Sri Lanka, and affected more than one million. Countries like the Philippines and South Africa also experienced unusual rainfall.
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Issue Date: Jan 31, 2011
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Leh’s labour lost
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2010
RAVAGED by flash floods in August, Leh is in dire need of homes for the victims. But rehabilitation work is far from over because of shortage of labour. Victims of floods that followed the biggest cloudburst ever in Ladakh, are living in tents or unfinished houses.
south Asia
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
DHAKA’S FLOOD-PROOF POLICY: Bangladesh has introduced a policy to protect its capital city Dhaka from recurring inundation during floods and high tides. The policy bans construction work in low-lying farmland adjacent to rivers that absorb extra water during floods and high tides. The policy received flak from real estate firms who have invested millions of dollars in these areas.
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Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
THE STALK EXPERIENCE
New insurance lets farmers down
@Jyotika_Sood Issue Date: Nov 15, 2010
COME winters, farmers in 50 districts of the country will be covered by an experimental crop insurance scheme by the Centre. The new scheme is a modified version of the current programme with new features like providing indemnity and advance relief to farmers. The unit area for the new insurance scheme has been reduced from a district to a panchayat. Farmer unions said the government should have covered individual farmers.
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Issue Date: Nov 15, 2010
Zero-calorie sweetener needs stirring
Haiti posts
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
“It is like we are bobbing along on the waves of the ocean, waiting to be saved,” reads one letter.
Little harvest, less land to till
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
TWO months after a cloudburst and floods destroyed their crops and land, hundreds of farmers in Leh are struggling to make a living. Farmlands in the district of Ladakh are covered with thick layers of dried mud and boulders.
Washout
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2010
888.7 cm: total average rainfall till September 22 which is 4 per cent above normal
52.7 cm rain fell between September 16 and September 22 which is 44 per cent above normal
16.43 million people were affected by floods
1,006 people died
102 districts were affected
34,931 houses were fully damaged
772,676 people are living in relief camps
