India plans to invest almost $300 million over two years for expanding water bodies and building drainage systems in seven cities to combat...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, visiting cyclone-hit Tamil Nadu, conveyed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's distress over the loss of lives, e...

The Central government has approved a Rs 561.29 crore urban flood mitigation project for the Chennai Basin. The project, aimed at making Ch...

A 2017 flood report says that the Tamil Nadu government desilted over 22,000 tanks, 11,000 km of water bodies and recharged nearly 7,000 pi...

The company said its key objective to set up the Fast Track settlement desk at its branches in Chennai was to extend every possible support...

One of the key reservoirs storing water for the Chennai city, the Chembarambakkam reservoir was not operated on full capacity, said the rep...

For the mid- to long-term plan, the airport authority has asked IIT-Madras to collect data and provide them with a solution on how to flood...

The panel said it does not quite accept the argument that since the rainfall was unprecedented and was more than the hundred years' average...

The committee in its report to Parliament on Friday said that “instead of putting the blame on the forces of nature“, the government should...

Mehrishi had on an earlier occasion too run into trouble with the parliamentary committee on home affairs after he walked out of a January ...

Cognizant Technology Solutions on Tuesday maintained its full-year forecast citing the successful execution of its internal business contin...

IT parks such as Olympia Tech Park and DLF IT Park, considered the worst-hit among technology parks, have begun to prepare for another unde...

Floods in Chennai are expected to have a "material impact" on TCS' current quarter revenues, the country's largest software services firm s...

Southern India could continue to experience higher than normal rainfall and this could cause further flooding due to El Nino, a phenomena w...

India suffered a $3 billion loss to its economy from severe rainfall and flooding in November and early December, reinsurance broker Aon Be...

The apex agency to monitor natural disasters has raised serious concerns over Bengaluru's preparedness to handle a flood situation like Che...

Helplessness was writ large on the faces of civic authorities, the police and politicians alike, as rain of over 1,000 mm pummelled Chennai...