Philippine officials and residents of areas that bore the brunt of Typhoon Rai pleaded for food, water, and shelter on Tuesday as damaged roads, flooding, and severed power and communication lines hit...

The block development officer of Harishchandrapur-I block of Malda has filed police complaints against the head of the local panchayat samiti and two of its members for siphoning funds allotted for th...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said senior Bengal ministers and Trinamul Congress MPs would seek an appointment with Union irrigation minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to demand funds for the implementati...

The Narendra Modi government’s “refusal” to grant a promised sum to implement the Ghatal master plan — a full-fledged anti-flood plan drawn up by the state government — i...

  BJP legislators in Maharashtra will donate a month's salary to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund (CMRF) for relief and rehabilitation of flood and rain-affected people in the state, par...

The death toll in central China's unprecedented flash floods triggered after the heaviest rainfall in 1,000 years has reached 33 with eight people missing, while officials raced to evacuate patien...

It appears that the days when southern film personalities commanded influence over politics are over. Rajinikanth trashed his political ambitions and dissolved his Rajini Makkal Mandram just when his ...

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi briefly at Kalaikunda Air Base in West Midnapore on Thursday to hand over a preliminary report of the damages...

Areas under Mahanandapur gram panchayat in Chanchal-I block have been flooded by the Mahananda. Nearly 200 families are affected, said administrative sources. Also, nearly 500 families in two neighbou...

Inter-ministerial teams from the Centre will conduct on-the-spot assessments in all the flood-affected states of the country for recommending allocations for additional funds.After a high-level meetin...