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  • 60 dead, four million affected in India floods

    BHUBANESWAR, India: Sixty people have died and four million have been affected by flooding in eastern India that has led to a major relief effort from local and international aid agencies, officials said Monday. “It’s tough to cope with two successive floods within a week,” Disaster Management Minister Surya Patra from the state of Orissa…

  • Floods 2011: Balochistan ignored as Sindh disaster takes spotlight

    The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) mandated to provide relief to its calamity-hit countrymen has sent relief items worth Rs2 million only for 80,000 flood-affected people in 17 districts of Balochistan, according to an official report. Only 50 bags of flour have been dispatched so far to people impacted by the floods, stated the report,…