Landslides in Southern India Kill at Least 93 With Many More Trapped July 31, 2024 By Sheikh Saaliq NEW DELHI (AP) — Multiple landslides in southern India have killed 93 people and many others are feared trapped under...
India Braces for More Rain After Floods, Lightning Kill 2,000 August 18, 2023 Some regions of India are bracing for more torrential rain, raising the risk of further causalities after natural calamities such...
Traffic, Water Shortages, Now Floods: The Slow Death of India’s Tech Hub? September 16, 2022 Harish Pullanoor spent his weekends in the late 1980s tramping around the marshes and ponds of Yemalur, an area then...
Flooding Inundates More of Bangladesh and India, Stranding Nearly 10M People June 21, 2022 By Ruma Paul and Zarir Hussain DHAKA/GUWAHATI, India – Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach...
Floods in India, Bangladesh Leave Millions Homeless June 20, 2022 By Julhas Alam and Wasbir Hussain DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) – Army troops were called in to rescue thousands of people stranded by massive floods that have...
German, Chinese Insurers Face Record Disaster Claims as Extreme Weather Intensifies August 12, 2021 Extreme precipitation in mid-July resulted in the costliest flooding events on record for German and Chinese insurers, which face potential...
Rescuers Search for Workers Trapped at Hydropower Site in Flood-Hit North India February 9, 2021 By Rajesh Kumar Singh Rescue workers continue to battle mountains of slush and debris at a hydropower construction site in north India that was...
Insurance Covered $90B of Natural Disaster Losses in 2018, Leaving 60% Protection Gap January 22, 2019 The economic costs of last year’s 394 natural catastrophe events came to US$225 billion with insurance covering US$90 billion of...
A.M. Best Sees Recent Floods Having Limited Effect on India’s Insurers’ Ratings September 17, 2018 A.M. Best said it does not expect flooding in the Indian state of Kerala to have a significant impact on...
India Hit with Worst Floods in Century, Bringing Damages of $3B, 350-Plus Deaths August 20, 2018 By Aijaz Rahi Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern...