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Belagavi: Due to heavy rains in Belagavi district and the Western Ghats regions, most of the rivers are overflowing. Krishna ...
Floods have killed 113,390 people in the 40-year period between 1975 and 2015, averaging 2,765 deaths per year ...
The magnitude of floods decreased in most parts of India between 1970 and 2010 as compared to the previous 100 years ...
Peak water flows in parts of India's largest river basin have been falling by more than one-sixth every decade, according to ...
India Meteorological Department forecasts heavy rainfall across the country. This will last for six to seven days. Central ...
Before you can see the Yamuna or hear its roar, you smell its nauseating stench from afar. When you finally glimpse it, the ...
Rainfall patterns have become erratic with shorter, heavier downpours instead of longer, steadier rain, leading to significant drops in water volume ...
Stutchbury also rued how, despite having the Hooghly flowing along it, Calcutta has “completely turned its back on the river” ...
Natural and human factors are driving these changes. Climate change disrupts rainfall and dries soils, while earthquakes and ...
India’s move to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty and divert Kashmir’s river flows has sparked alarm in Pakistan, resistance in ...
The 19th-century power struggle between the Sikhs, the British, and the Afghans shaped the political landscape of the time.
Setting aside key green provisions in view of national interest, an environment ministry panel has given \"in-principle\" ...