CHIANG MAI Asia's flood-prone megacities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for their booming populations, experts said Sunday.Rapid urbanisation has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, ...

  COLOMBO: At least seven people have been killed and two are missing in floods and mudslides following heavy rain acrossSri Lanka, the disaster management centre said Wednesday. A tropical cyclone east of the island did not make landfall but caused unusually heavy rain in the past two days ...

RIYADH: Thirteen people have died and four more are missing inSaudi Arabiaafter downpours caused flash floods in several areas of the desert kingdom, the civil defence authorities said on Wednesday. The official SPA state news agency quoted Colonel Abdullah al-Harethi as saying people died in ...

BUENOS AIRES - Damage from last week’s record rains and flooding in Argentina exceeded five billion dollars, according to officials, who said on Sunday that more than 350,000 people suffered losses in property. “More than 350,000 of our neighbours were affected directly or indirectly by ...

PORT LOUIS - Ten people were killed in floods caused by sudden rains in Port Louis, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, the police information centre. Police said six bodies were found in a pedestrian subway. One body was found near the port and two more in an underground carpark, ...

JAKARTA - Floods in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta which have killed at least 11 people and left two missing eased Friday, authorities said, warning however of more torrential rains which could hamper relief efforts. The capital’s worst floods in five years have forced 18,000 people from ...

JAKARTA  - Heavy monsoon rain triggered severe flooding in large swathes of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Thursday, bringing the city to a halt with many government offices and businesses forced to close because staff could not get to work. At least 20,000 people were forced from their ...

Floods in Indonesia's capital Jakarta which have killed at least 11 people and left two missing eased Friday, authorities said, warning however of more torrential rains which could hamper relief efforts.The capital's worst floods in five years have forced 18,000 people from their homes, the ...

KARACHI - Every year Pakistan faces flood strikes and the Army always come out prepared to help out fellow Pakistanis.The stories of Pak army’s humanitarian aid are countless, but some are worth-mentioning in golden words. During recent floods in areas of Upper Sindh, like always, the army ...

Monsoon floods in Pakistan have killed 455 people over the past five weeks and affected more than five million, according to the latest figures from the government's disaster relief agency.Pakistan suffered devastating floods in the past two years, including the worst in its history in 2010 when ...

QUETTA – Provincial Minister Mir Sadiq Umrani has said that more than 400 people lost their lives in the recent spell of heavy rains and flooding in Balochistan. “The provincial government and other agencies are providing food and other relief goods only to 3 per cent of the rain-hit ...

ISLAMABAD - Monsoon floods in Pakistan have killed 371 people and affected nearly 4.5 million, the government's disaster relief agency said on Friday.Pakistan has suffered devastating floods in the past two years, including the worst in its history in 2010, when catastrophic inundations across the ...

QUETTA - More then 748,000 people of 15 districts were affected, 682 villages were completely destroyed while 5,000 livestock were swept away in the recent floods in Balochistan. Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has released the initial report over the devastation caused by ...

Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 30 people and left several others missing, it has also destroyed or damaged thousands of homes in the Sindh region. When one has to ponder over the disaster faced by ill-fated Sindh province, it is the third consecutive year where ...

Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 30 people and left several others missing, it has also destroyed or damaged thousands of homes in the Sindh region. When one has to ponder over the disaster faced by ill-fated Sindh province, it is the third consecutive year where ...

NIAMEY - Floods could wipe out most of Niger’s main rice harvest this year as rain-swollen rivers rose to 50-year highs across West Africa, spreading devastation, a regional official said.At least 81 people have been killed in Niger since annual rains caused flooding along the banks of the ...

It is not only the heavy rains in Sindh which are flooding the countryside but also the torrential rains in the north which are swelling the Kabul, Chitral, Swat, Haro and Soan rivers which are all flowing down to Sindh adding to the flood havoc. Until these tributary rivers of the Indus are ...

SYDNEY - Australian floods have inundated close to 2,000 homes in New South Wales, an official said Saturday, as the surging waters appeared to claim the life of a man in the state’s north. Eastern Australia has been hit by heavy downpours in recent days, causing swollen river systems to pour ...

SYDNEY - Australian emergency services Monday ordered thousands more to evacuate a New South Wales town threatened by rising floodwaters, as the crisis claimed a second life when surging water swept a car off the road. Days of heavy rain have hammered the eastern states of Queensland, New South ...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Some 125,000 people have been forced out of their homes and 500 kilometers (300 miles) of roadways have been washed away in flooding in southeast Mexico, Tabasco state Governor Andres Granier said Wednesday. We flew over the rivers and municipalities and we can say that Tabasco ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Floods in Pakistan have damaged at least 880,000 hectares of standing crops, including rice, maize, cotton, sugar cane, fruit orchards and vegetables, which represent about 3.7 percent of total national crop area, the United Nations food agency said on Tuesday, citing preliminary ...

ISLAMABAD - Talks between the ruling PPP, PML-Q and MQM have reportedly got delayed as the senior leadership of these political parties is busy in relief works in the flood-affected areas of Sindh whereas the PML-N is dealing with dengue in Punjab. Source in PML-Q told the scribe that the party ...

PANGRIO Desperate to save his grandmother from floodwaters swamping interior Sindh, Ali Ahmed and three other relatives stuck her in a large metal cooking pot and pulled her to safety through neck-high water. The men swam for several hours through driving rain, unable to rest because the water was ...

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Fourteen Cambodians, half of them children, have been killed in floods in recent days as heavy rains battered the kingdom, an official said Friday. Rising waters have inundated large areas of the country, washing through towns and saturating thousands of hectares (acres) of rice ...

ISLAMABAD - Senate Special Committee on Flood Thursday termed the National Disaster Management Authoritys (NDMAs) report on flood situation in the country, in general, and in Sindh, in particular, unsatisfactory and rejected it saying nothing new existed in it. The special committee had summoned ...

More than 1, 400 people have been moved to safety from Badins flood-ravaged areas of Tarai, Pingrio and Khoski, says Pak Navy. According to a Pak Navy spokesman, rescue operation is under way in Badin. The spokesman said that mobile teams of Pak Navy were providing medical aid to hundreds of people ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Zafar Iqbal Qadir said that almost 64000 livestock have been washed away by flood waters in Sindh. Talking to VOA, he said that almost 4 million acres of land is swamped by the flood waters whereas cash crops on 2.5 million ...

Dozens of villages of Gandasinghwala area of Kasur submerged as India released more water in River Sutlej. According to Federal Flood Commission (FFC), flash flood of 57,000 cusec of water in River Sutlej at Gandasinghwala in Kasur gushed through submerging several villages. The water discharged ...

ISLAMABAD - Calling on the government to urgently invest a minimum of two per cent of its district budgets in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), international aid agency Oxfam on International Humanitarian Day said that the effects of fresh flooding in southern Pakistan might have been prevented if ...

UNITED NATIONS - UN humanitarian agencies in Pakistan are on standby after sustained rains have reportedly affected upto 7,50,000 people in Punjab and Sindh province, killing upto 25 and displacing some 50,000 others, a UN news release said on Monday. The UN Office for the Coordination of ...