PM announces Rs.10 bn relief package for Bihar New Delhi, Aug 28 : Describing the floods in Bihar as a "national calamity", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday announced an immediate assistance of Rs.10 billion for rescue and relief operations as well as 125,000 tonnes of food grain to the thousands affected.
Bihar government asserts right to challenge Lalu's acquittal New Delhi, Aug 28 : The Bihar government Thursday accused the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of succumbing to pressure from Railway Minister Lalu Prasad by not challenging his and his wife Rabri Devi's acquittal in a corruption case.
US pledges aid for Bihar's flood-hit New Delhi, Aug 28 : The US Thursday announced an assistance of $100,000 (about Rs.4 million) for over two million people in Bihar who have been displaced by devastating floods.
Bihar drowns, survivors starve in worst floods (Bihar Times)Ten days after the river Kosi breaks an embankment in Nepal drowning
half of Bihar, India's Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh undertakes an
aerial survey, but now the sight of the helicopters only angers
starving flood victims who have swum to safety on their own onto
roads, bridges and railway tracks.
Prachanda to come to India next month: Nepal's envoy New Delhi, Aug 28: Nepali Prime Minister Prachanda will come to India next month and it will be his first "political visit" abroad after ascending to the post last week, Nepal's Ambassador Durgesh Man Singh has said.
Bihar floods a national calamity: Manmohan Patna, Aug 28 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday announced an immediate assistance of Rs.10 billion to Bihar for rescue and relief operations and 125,000 tonnes of food grains to thousands hit by the worst floods in recent memory after the swollen Kosi river changed course.
One million people in Bihar need to be evacuated: minister Saharsa (Bihar), Aug 28 :At least one million marooned people need to be evacuated to safe places in Bihar, where over 2.5 million people have been affected by floods, Bihar Disaster Management Minister Nitish Mishra said Thursday, even as the situation remained grim.
Marooned people drinking floodwater to survive in Bihar Madhepura (Bihar), Aug 28 (IANS) Even as they wait for government aid, the 200 residents of Bangmatiya village in Bihar's flood ravaged Madhepura district are struggling to survive by eating stale rice puff and drinking the dirty water that their houses have been marooned in for the past 10 days.
Nepal begins turning away Indian flood victims Kathmandu, Aug 28: As Nepal's Natural Disaster Mitigation Committee began talks under the leadership of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda in the capital Thursday on how to combat the ravaging flood in south Nepal, near the border area, Nepali security forces began turning away dozens of Indians who had also become homeless due to the disaster.
Shameful media under-reporting of Pralay (Bihar Times) It is a Pralay (Doomsday or Qiyamat), said the grim-faced Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, after an aerial survey of the flood-devastated districts of Bihar. Railway Minister Lalu Yadav dubbed it as Maha-Parlay. Thus it is certainly difficult for anyone to figure out the real death toll in Pralay. view comments...
Declare Bihar floods as national calamity: BJP New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday demanded the floods in Bihar, the worst in the recent history of the country, be declared a national calamity and the central government should bear the burden of the relief and rehabilitation operations in the state.
75 prisoners escape from flooded Bihar jail Madhepura (Bihar), Aug 27 : All 75 prisoners in Bihar's Supaul district jail escaped in the chaos that followed when floodwaters inundated the premises, officials here said.
Bihar town echoes with emptiness as waters flood in, people move out Madhepura (Bihar), Aug 27 : The clouds darken ominously and the rain pelts down lending more fury to the floodwaters that are surging in -- forcing people out of their homes and the city for what could be two days, two weeks or even two months. Nobody knows.
After China, Prachanda to visit US? Kathmandu, Aug 27 : After his controversial visit to China within less than a week of assuming office as republic Nepal's first prime minister, will Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda now snub India further and make the US his next port of call abroad?
Lalu urges PM to visit Bihar's flood-hit areas New Delhi, Aug 27 : Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit the flooded areas in Bihar where rampaging rivers have rendered hundreds of thousands homeless.
Catastrophic Bihar Floods, Catastrophic India's Politicians (Bihar Times) The river Kosi breaks an embankment just before the Bhimnagar Barrage
in Nepal and waters from an angry Kosi flood several districts of
north Bihar and some 20 lakh people struggle to escape its fury. And
no government help.view comments(3)...
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