Up Storm Deaths

Fuel shortages and worsening sanitation in the Gaza Strip are shaping up to be the perfect storm for tragedy through the spread of disease, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.

A rare summer storm with winds of up to 145 kilometres (90 miles) per hour hit the Netherlands on Wednesday, causing at least one death as people across much of the country were told to stay indoors and travel was severely disrupted.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, known to stir up a storm with his tweets, sparked another buzz today in a post talking about death under "mysterious circumstances".

The death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 80 on Wednesday with scores missing and feared dead, officials said, as rescuers dug up more bodies with bare hands and backhoes in crushed villages.

Up to 17 cm of rains have flooded the capital city Chennai as a cyclonic storm along the coasts triggered heavy rainfall.

The death count from a devastating earthquake in Haiti rose to 724 on Sunday as rescue workers scrambled to find survivors buried under buildings a day after the 7.2 magnitude quake and as a tropical storm bore down on the Caribbean nation.

Three people were killed in Tamil Nadu as Cyclone Nirav made landfall overnight near the costal town of Marakkanam, 30 km north of Puducherry. Hours after the landfall, the tropical storm has weakened from a "very severe cyclonic storm" to a "severe cyclonic storm". More than two lakh people were evacuated to safety in the two coastal states that h...

Amid a political storm over infant deaths in Kota, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav today alleged that over a thousand children have died in the last 12 months in Gorakhpur and asked the UP government as to who was responsible for it.

The death toll from a typhoon in eastern China rose to 32 on Sunday, with 16 people missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported, as the country braced for more travel disruptions as the storm moved further north up the coast.

When BJP politician Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur kicked up a storm today by claiming that Maharashtra police officer Hemant Karkare died fighting terrorists during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks because she had "cursed" him, criticism poured in from all quarters. While party colleague Shahnawaz Hussain condemned the manner in which questions were being rai...

Thirteen people were killed and at least 28 others injured due to powerful dust storms and thunderstorms in different parts of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. Sitapur, Gonda, Shravasti, Faizabad, and Basti districts, along with other adjoining areas of the state, were affected.

Heavy pre-monsoon rains lashed many parts of Uttar Pradesh on Friday. Although it brought relief from scorching heat, it also left 30 persons dead in storm and lightning-related accidents.

Forty people have died as thunderstorm and lightening struck different parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand on Monday.

Back in Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath on Saturday appeared to blame the weather department for not providing adequate information about the ferocious winds that tore down homes and toppled walls, killing nearly 75 people in the state.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will cut short his election campaign in Karnataka later today and head back to Uttar Pradesh where more than 73 people had died in a dust-storm followed by heavy rains on Wednesday night. The weather office has predicted more thunderstorms in parts of the country including Uttar Pradesh.

Fuel shortages and worsening sanitation in the Gaza Strip are shaping up to be the perfect storm for tragedy through the spread of disease, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.

A rare summer storm with winds of up to 145 kilometres (90 miles) per hour hit the Netherlands on Wednesday, causing at least one death as people across much of the country were told to stay indoors and travel was severely disrupted.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, known to stir up a storm with his tweets, sparked another buzz today in a post talking about death under "mysterious circumstances".

The death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 80 on Wednesday with scores missing and feared dead, officials said, as rescuers dug up more bodies with bare hands and backhoes in crushed villages.

Up to 17 cm of rains have flooded the capital city Chennai as a cyclonic storm along the coasts triggered heavy rainfall.

The death count from a devastating earthquake in Haiti rose to 724 on Sunday as rescue workers scrambled to find survivors buried under buildings a day after the 7.2 magnitude quake and as a tropical storm bore down on the Caribbean nation.

Three people were killed in Tamil Nadu as Cyclone Nirav made landfall overnight near the costal town of Marakkanam, 30 km north of Puducherry. Hours after the landfall, the tropical storm has weakened from a "very severe cyclonic storm" to a "severe cyclonic storm". More than two lakh people were evacuated to safety in the two coastal states that h...

Amid a political storm over infant deaths in Kota, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav today alleged that over a thousand children have died in the last 12 months in Gorakhpur and asked the UP government as to who was responsible for it.

The death toll from a typhoon in eastern China rose to 32 on Sunday, with 16 people missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported, as the country braced for more travel disruptions as the storm moved further north up the coast.

When BJP politician Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur kicked up a storm today by claiming that Maharashtra police officer Hemant Karkare died fighting terrorists during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks because she had "cursed" him, criticism poured in from all quarters. While party colleague Shahnawaz Hussain condemned the manner in which questions were being rai...

Thirteen people were killed and at least 28 others injured due to powerful dust storms and thunderstorms in different parts of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. Sitapur, Gonda, Shravasti, Faizabad, and Basti districts, along with other adjoining areas of the state, were affected.

Heavy pre-monsoon rains lashed many parts of Uttar Pradesh on Friday. Although it brought relief from scorching heat, it also left 30 persons dead in storm and lightning-related accidents.

Forty people have died as thunderstorm and lightening struck different parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand on Monday.

Back in Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath on Saturday appeared to blame the weather department for not providing adequate information about the ferocious winds that tore down homes and toppled walls, killing nearly 75 people in the state.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will cut short his election campaign in Karnataka later today and head back to Uttar Pradesh where more than 73 people had died in a dust-storm followed by heavy rains on Wednesday night. The weather office has predicted more thunderstorms in parts of the country including Uttar Pradesh.