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Japan cancels over 200 flights as double storm threat growsJapan faces severe transport chaos and landslide threats as two tropical storms, Mekkhala and Higos, converge with a seasonal rain front. O...- Heavy rains from nearby Typhoon Mekkhala pound Taiwan, 200 to be evacuated on east coastTyphoon Mekkhala's outer bands have unleashed heavy rains and localized flooding across Taipei and southern Taiwan. Authorities are evacuat...
- China enters its flood season; heavy rain expected in the southChina has entered its flood season with heavy rains forecast for the south. Some northern areas and major river basins will experience belo...
- Tornado watch: Severe weather warning for over 51 million people in Texas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Oklahoma, KansasTornado warning: National Weather Service received more than 1,100 reports of large hail, winds above 60 mph (96 kph) and tornadoes as part...
- High-level committee to examine Teesta Stage III dam breach: Sikkim CMThe Sikkim government has formed a high-level committee to investigate the Teesta Stage III dam breach that occurred on October 4. The comm...
- Sikkim: Icy flood that killed 31 in India's northeast had been feared for yearsRescuers are searching for survivors after a glacial lake overflowed and burst through a dam in India's Himalayan north. The flood has kill...
- Glacial lake floods: A growing, unpredictable climate riskIndian rescuers are searching for over 100 missing people after a flash flood caused by a glacial lake bursting its banks. Glacial lake out...
- Fighting in south Ukraine as offensive expectations intensifyMoscow says clashes have intensified since Thursday in the Zaporizhzhia region, particularly around the small town of Orikhiv and towards t...
- Blast detected at time of Ukraine dam breach: Norway seismological instituteNORSAR's announcement, which did not provide any information about the cause of the blast, supports suggestions that the hydroelectric dam,...
- Ukraine rushes drinking water to flooded areas as officials wrestle with impact of major dam breachAuthorities have rushed supplies of drinking water to flooded areas from a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine as officials considered resett...
- Ukrainian dam breach: What is happening and what's at stakeAuthorities and rescue workers on both sides stepped up efforts on Wednesday to pull beleaguered residents to higher and drier ground a day...
- Morbi bridge collapse: Staff at local crematoriums, graveyards say they never saw huge influx of bodies in short spanThe British-era suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in the town caved in on Sunday evening, plunging people into the water below.
- No major deficiency in 1,352 Maharashtra dams inspected, says reportAn official said the upside of the report was that none of the dams in the state have any major deficiency which could lead to failure.
- Maharashtra minister blames crabs for Tiware dam breachThe minister said officials and locals had informed him that a large number of crabs weakened the wall of the dam.
- 23 feared dead after dam breach in Maharashtra; 11 bodies recoveredThe dam breach caused a flood-like situation in seven downstream villages, with 12 houses being swept away.
- People near Ratnagiri dam had warned of cracks, Maharashtra minister admitsThe Tiware dam in Ratnagiri district developed a breach late last night after heavy rains.
- Maharashtra rains: Dam breaches in Ratnagiri districtNDRF teams are at Tiware Dam in Ratnagiri district to carry out search and rescue operations.
- In a first, government to run safety checks on 5,000 big damsThe project cost has now been revised to around Rs 3,400 crore and the World Bank has agreed to fund 80% of that, DRIP director Pramod Nara...
- US President Barack Obama hails recapturing of Iraq's strategic Mosul DamHe said that the recapturing of the Mosul Dam by Iraqi and Kurdish forces with US support is a major step forward in the fight against the ...
- Orissa flood scene worsens, 7 breaches in Mahanadi systemMahanadi, caused at least 7 breaches and swept away many villages.
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