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Floods are the most common natural disaster in India. The heavy southwest monsoon rains cause the Brahmaputra and other rivers to distend their banks, often flooding surrounding areas. Though they provide rice paddy farmers with a largely dependable source of natural irrigation and fertilisation, the floods can kill thousands and displace millions.
A total of 1,531 rescuers were mobilized from different forces, including 35 personnel from the NDRF, 582 from the Indian Army, the Madras Engineer Group (MEG), the Defence Security Corps (DSC), 23 personnel from the Indian Air Force, 120 personnel from the SDRF , 460 personnel from the Kerala Fire and Rescue Services, 31 Forest department ...
Video gaming in India is an emerging market since India is experiencing strong growth in online gaming, making it one of the top gaming markets in the world.Over the past few decades, the Indian gaming industry has gone from close to nonexistent in the 1990s to one of the top markets globally in the late 2010s.
Map 1: The Alaknanda, Dhauliganga, and Rishganga river valleys, and the Nanda Devi National Park in the state of Uttarakhand Map 2: The headwaters of the Ganges showing: Rishiganga (rising from meltwater in the Nanda Devi sanctuary, top right), Dhauliganga which it meets near Tapovan; Alaknanda River, which Dhauliganga meets at Vishnuprayag; and the Ganges whose main stem begins at Devprayag ...
On 30 July 2014, a landslide occurred in the village of Malin in the Ambegaon taluka of the Pune district in Maharashtra, India.The landslide, which hit early in the morning while residents were asleep, [1] was believed to have been caused by a burst of heavy rainfall, and killed at least 151 people. [2]
In response to the disaster, widely reported as the region's worst flood in 50 years, Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar, met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek his help in dealing with the "catastrophe". [20] The Prime Minister declared a "natural calamity" on 28 August and earmarked US$230 million in aid for the region. [21]
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A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event. Some examples of natural hazard events include avalanches , droughts , earthquakes , floods , heat waves , landslides , tropical cyclones , volcanic activity and wildfires . [ 1 ]