Urban Flooding

The flood situation had largely improved on Saturday in Manipur, which was ravaged for more than five days due to the massive deluge affecting around two lakh people in 348 villages and urban localities in eight districts after the incessant rains

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greenlighted the first urban flood mitigation project in Chennai, allocating Rs 561.29 crore for "Integrated Urban Flood Management" activities in the Chennai Basin project, Home Minister Amit Shah announced today.

China has been hit by devastating floods in recent weeks, inundating cities and causing deaths and infrastructural damage, as well as raising questions about the effectiveness of its 2015 "sponge city" initiative aimed at reducing urban flood risks.

A flood of anti-tank missiles sent to Ukraine has potentially changed the course of the war, putting pressure on Russia to find enough capable troops for the grueling urban combat that is now more likely.

Urban InVEST, a new software developed by Stanford Natural Capital Project, could help city planners and developers visualise the areas where investment in nature — including parks and marshlands — is needed. Urban InVEST aids in designing cities, helping nature and the people by protecting them from calamities such as floods and improving thei...

Dramatic visuals of a man rescuing a new-born baby from a flooded area in south Bengaluru offer a glimpse into the state of India's Silicon Valley after heavy rainfall hit the city on Friday.

The southwest monsoon is likely to arrive in Delhi ahead of schedule on June 25, the Indian weather monitoring agency said today as heatwave-like conditions kept day temperature above normal in the National Capital Region.

The quandary facing India's informal workforce of 450 million people is one of the starkest examples of how social inequality threatens to undermine virus containment efforts around the world. From undocumented minimum-wage workers in the world's richest postcodes to job-seekers flooding into swelling metropolises, the urban poor often have limited...

Amaravati may not become Andhra Pradesh'snew capital, Botsa Satyanarayana, Minister of Municipal Administration and Urban Development, hinted today, pointing to the fact that large sections of the region were left flooded by heavy rain

E-scooters touted as zero-carbon urban transport are flooding city streets worldwide, but just how green they are remains an open question.

As the U.S. Midwest and East Coast thawed out from days of bitter, deadly cold, Californians on Friday battened down the hatches ahead of a fierce winter storm carrying heavy rains and high winds that could touch off urban flooding and mudslides.

The Centre plans to draw up recommendations on how cities should deal with such urban flooding, an official said today.

Karnataka urban local body election result: The Congress had an edge halfway through counting of votes this afternoon for 102 urban local bodies in Karnataka where polls took place last week. This is the first election after the Janata Dal Secular-Congress coalition government took power in May.

Mumbai rains extremely vulnerable to urban flooding due to a combination of low lying areas and excessive rainfall that the city receives. Also, the heavy construction activity in the city is reducing the catchment area in the metropolis.

Like Bengaluru, Hyderabad was known as a city of lakes from the days of the Nizams and the Qutb Shahis. But in the last few decades, Hyderabad's lakes have been encroached by big builders, who have destroyed the impressive man-made water storage system that helped keep drought and flood at bay. And now, the government's beautification of the lakes ...

The flood situation had largely improved on Saturday in Manipur, which was ravaged for more than five days due to the massive deluge affecting around two lakh people in 348 villages and urban localities in eight districts after the incessant rains

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greenlighted the first urban flood mitigation project in Chennai, allocating Rs 561.29 crore for "Integrated Urban Flood Management" activities in the Chennai Basin project, Home Minister Amit Shah announced today.

China has been hit by devastating floods in recent weeks, inundating cities and causing deaths and infrastructural damage, as well as raising questions about the effectiveness of its 2015 "sponge city" initiative aimed at reducing urban flood risks.

A flood of anti-tank missiles sent to Ukraine has potentially changed the course of the war, putting pressure on Russia to find enough capable troops for the grueling urban combat that is now more likely.

Urban InVEST, a new software developed by Stanford Natural Capital Project, could help city planners and developers visualise the areas where investment in nature — including parks and marshlands — is needed. Urban InVEST aids in designing cities, helping nature and the people by protecting them from calamities such as floods and improving thei...

Dramatic visuals of a man rescuing a new-born baby from a flooded area in south Bengaluru offer a glimpse into the state of India's Silicon Valley after heavy rainfall hit the city on Friday.

The southwest monsoon is likely to arrive in Delhi ahead of schedule on June 25, the Indian weather monitoring agency said today as heatwave-like conditions kept day temperature above normal in the National Capital Region.

The quandary facing India's informal workforce of 450 million people is one of the starkest examples of how social inequality threatens to undermine virus containment efforts around the world. From undocumented minimum-wage workers in the world's richest postcodes to job-seekers flooding into swelling metropolises, the urban poor often have limited...

Amaravati may not become Andhra Pradesh'snew capital, Botsa Satyanarayana, Minister of Municipal Administration and Urban Development, hinted today, pointing to the fact that large sections of the region were left flooded by heavy rain

E-scooters touted as zero-carbon urban transport are flooding city streets worldwide, but just how green they are remains an open question.

As the U.S. Midwest and East Coast thawed out from days of bitter, deadly cold, Californians on Friday battened down the hatches ahead of a fierce winter storm carrying heavy rains and high winds that could touch off urban flooding and mudslides.

The Centre plans to draw up recommendations on how cities should deal with such urban flooding, an official said today.

Karnataka urban local body election result: The Congress had an edge halfway through counting of votes this afternoon for 102 urban local bodies in Karnataka where polls took place last week. This is the first election after the Janata Dal Secular-Congress coalition government took power in May.

Mumbai rains extremely vulnerable to urban flooding due to a combination of low lying areas and excessive rainfall that the city receives. Also, the heavy construction activity in the city is reducing the catchment area in the metropolis.

Like Bengaluru, Hyderabad was known as a city of lakes from the days of the Nizams and the Qutb Shahis. But in the last few decades, Hyderabad's lakes have been encroached by big builders, who have destroyed the impressive man-made water storage system that helped keep drought and flood at bay. And now, the government's beautification of the lakes ...