floods

FLOODS IN MUMBAI Floods in Mumbai are attributable to simultaneous occurrence of rainfall and high tides. If the rainfall is in excess of 200 mm in a day (24 hrs) the floods can occur anytime irrespective of the tides. However, if there is moderate rainfall but the tides are in excess of 4.50...

Soha Ali Khan to relive Mumbai floods MUMBAI: Actress Soha Ali Khan's tryst with realistic films continues. After "Mumbai Meri Jaan", about the serial train blasts, she is doing a movie where she will relive the trauma of July 26, 2005, when torrential rains nearly drowned the city. "This is...

New Delhi: In Bihar, the flood crisis has taken an unprecedented turn. At least 37 people have died and millions have been displaced. After the river Kosi breached its embankment in Nepal, it has flooded large areas in North Bihar. And as the river races downstream towards the mighty Ganges...

Work at the small car project of Tata Motors at Singur in West Bengal is not affected by the agitation in Nandigram but hampered by monsoon and floods, Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group said in London. Asked whether the current Nandigram violence had affected the project, Tata said that...

At least one million people have lost their homes to floods in eastern India, but government relief is slow and inadequate, voluntary groups said on Wednesday. The flooding, triggered by annual monsoon rains over the past week, has hit an area where 2.3 million people live and damaged thousands...

One of world's biggest solar bowls — the Thar desert — which basks an average of 320 days in sunshine has transformed into a trough of death and destruction after three days of downpour left it with double the rain it normally gets in a year. The border district of Barmer is drowning...

AHMEDABAD: The flood situation was grim on Sunday in north and central Gujarat even as the Army was deployed and more than 60,000 people evacuated from areas near the banks of Sabarmati and Mahi rivers since Saturday. Due to release of three lakh cuesecs of water from the Dharoi dam last...

SURAT: The floods that ravaged Surat has taken the city 25 years backward economically and it is likely to remain so for the next five years at least, according to industry experts who have watched the economic progress of the diamond-cutting city. Phenomenal progress in the last two decades...