`India, China most prone to natural disasters`

Last Updated: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 13:26

Emerging economies like India, China face the highest economic risk from natural disasters, says a report by Maplecroft.

Central America launches its Google of weather

Last Updated: Friday, July 22, 2011, 08:56

Oficials launched a database dubbed the `Google of Central American weather`, designed to predict natural disasters.

Scientists develop tool to predict tsunamis, landslides

Last Updated: Monday, April 18, 2011, 14:36

Landslide probabilities can be predicted by establishing rainstorm threshold totals for any area on the globe.

`Natural disasters to cost $185bn yearly`

Last Updated: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 19:22

Annual global losses from natural disasters could triple to a whopping USD 185 billion by the end of this century.

Indo-Pak precedent of help during natural disasters: Qureshi

Last Updated: Saturday, August 21, 2010, 23:30

Pakistan`s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday said that New Delhi and Islamabad had a past record of providing assistance to each other when faced with natural disasters.

Natural disasters can linked to climate change: Hillary

Last Updated: Friday, August 20, 2010, 11:47

The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the increase in natural disasters across the globe in recent years could be linked to climate change.

Filipinos fear God`s wrath in natural disasters

Last Updated: Monday, August 16, 2010, 14:37

A survey shows 21% Filipinos attribute the natural disasters to God`s wrath.

WB loan to help India battle natural disasters

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 10:52

The World Bank approved a $255 mn assistance to India to help mitigate the risks by natural disasters.

Why Haiti keeps getting hammered by disasters

Last Updated: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 09:47

When it comes to natural disasters, Haiti seems to have a bull`s-eye on it. That`s because of a killer combination of geography, poverty, social problems, slipshod building standards and bad luck, experts say.

Orissa lost 49,736 lives in disasters in 38 years

Last Updated: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 18:24

Altogether 49,736 people were killed and property worth Rs 8814 crore was lost due to natural disasters and epidemic in Orissa in a span of 38 years from 1970 to 2007, a report said on Thursday.

Typhoon turns back, dumps rain on northern Philippines

Last Updated: Monday, October 5, 2009, 10:23

A powerful typhoon that slammed into the northern Philippines over the weekend has made a U-turn and was being pulled back by another, stronger storm, officials said on Monday.

President declares `state of calamity` in Philippines

Last Updated: Friday, October 2, 2009, 13:48

President Gloria Arroyo on Friday placed the entire Philippines under a "state of calamity”, as a powerful typhoon threatened more devastation following deadly floods, her spokesman said.