Resilience building in flood-prone areas require capacity-building of the community so that people can anticipate, absorb, adapt, mitigate and transfer disaster risk Villagers try to repair a breached ...

Nagpur: The Public Works Department (PWD) has directed the Besa-Pipla Nagar Panchayat to remove decorative embankments built ...

"I have been living here for more than ten years. The embankment collapse caused by Amphan destroyed my whole house. Though we rebuilt it in the same location, we still feel fear when we hear cyclone ...

While we need some time to understand the extent of damage Cyclone Sitrang has caused, I assume that the overall damage would be much less than previous such calamities. I have learnt from the ...

The tragedy of floods in Bihar is an annual saga. This year, according to the eastern Indian state’s disaster management department, 1,333 villages in 16 districts were flooded, affecting a population ...

With a driving vision of building tomorrow, a collection of excavators are helping to protect the Sundarbans, a historic region between India and Bangladesh, from the threat of flooding. In Bengali, ...

While dams and embankments are often touted as interventions for better flood management, they have often been at the root of more severe flood disasters. This is not the first flood disaster in the ...

Life had come to a standstill in the Ganga-Brahmaputra floodplains where large tracts of land were reeling under floods. Everywhere there were submerged houses, broken bridges, and wasted railway ...

At least 1.5 million residents of southern region are in danger as embankments in 158 points are damaged or cracked. Majority of the water resources of the country flows through the rivers of Barisal ...

Notobor Malo plants mangroves next to his home every year to halt erosion by the rising sea. Some saplings die, but some survive to protect his riverside home in Mathurapur, a village in the Satkhira ...