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Stranded Indians are using benefits of these counters and getting their funds exchanged, he added.
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 19:41
Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Tuesday breifed his finance counterpart Arun Jaitley about damages in rabi crops in about estimated 181 lakh hectares across 13 states due to untimely rain and hailstorm.
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Japan will provide assistance amounting to USD 4 billion in the coming four years to reduce the number of disaster victims and their suffering around the world, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday.
Last Updated: Monday, January 5, 2015, 13:39
Leading bourse BSE will conduct live trading on Thursday and Friday, from its disaster recovery site in Hyderabad to check the robustness of its systems.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 22:23
Fourteen people, including four schoolchildren, were killed on Saturday after they were engulfed in scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia`s Mount Sinabung in its biggest eruption in recent days, officials said.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 11:23
The US experienced seven weather and climate disaster events in 2013, each with losses exceeding $1 billion in damages, according to a government report released on Wednesday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 12:18
The plan hinges on Tokyo Electric (Tepco) restarting its Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear plant to cut fossil fuel costs, a contentious issue staunchly opposed by the local governor.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 10:44
BP had supported the settlement agreement leading up to the December 2012 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier approving it. But the company has since argued the administration of the settlement is faulty because it allows claimants without actual damages to join in.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 02:09
The CPI(M) on Friday told the 14th Finance Commission that the underground fire, subsidence and emission of poisonous gas in the Jharia coalfields of Dhanbad be considered as a "national disaster".
Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 17:40
Multi-lateral funding agency World Bank will provide USD 250 million loan to construct disaster resilient houses and road in cyclonic disaster hit Uttarakhand.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 10:23
The United Nations has warned that the Central African Republic (CAR) is heading towards a humanitarian disaster because of overcrowded camps leading to poor sanitation in the war -torn nation.
Last Updated: Monday, December 30, 2013, 19:46
Around 18,000 people in western Indonesia have had to leave their homes after two rivers burst their banks and flooded thousands of houses, an official said on Monday.
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