Flood

News Hour: At least 26 people, mostly children, were killed on Saturday when a vehicle carrying wedding guests was washed off a mountainous road by floods and flung into a gorge, officials said. The dead included...

News Hour: In a major goof-up, Assam government today included a two-year old world-famous photograph of Bangladesh’s Noakhali flood in its interim report on Assam flood to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The report, handed over...

News Hour: At least 58 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Nepal, the government said on Wednesday, reports BSS. Another 20 people are missing and the Nepal army is racing...

News Hour: IOM Sudan has begun distributing emergency shelter and non-food relief items to 57 of the most vulnerable families whose homes have been destroyed by heavy rains and flooding in El Koma locality, North Darfur...

News Hour: Anger erupted on Saturday over floods in northern China that left more than 200 people dead or missing, with media and internet users accusing officials of negligence, reports BSS. Torrential rain has lashed the...

News Hour: Heavy rains and flash floods in Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur killed nine people on Saturday, the official SUNA news agency reported. The deaths occurred in the town of El-Fasher, the capital of the state...

News Hour: Flash floods from torrential downpours in the in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have killed 15 people, with seven deaths over the weekend, and left thousands of people displaced, authorities said on...

News Hour: The death toll from flooding in the US state of West Virginia rose to 24 on Saturday, as President Barack Obama declared a major disaster, releasing federal aid for some of the hardest-hit areas,...

News Hour: Save the Children is assessing how best to help the thousands of children impacted by the powerful storms that hit West Virginia on Thursday night, causing widespread flooding and destruction, power outages and the...

News Hour: The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a new project for Argentina today totaling US$200 million to strengthen flood risk management in the city of Buenos Aires and improve drainage systems in the...