Sanjay Chauhan witnessed monsoon rains lash down over his home and farm in the Indian Himalayas this year with a magnitude and intensity he's never experienced before. "Buildings have collapsed, roads are broken, there were so many landslides including one that has destroyed a large part of my orchard," said the 56-year-old farmer, who lives in the town of Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. "I have not seen anything like this."
Nepali Army has performed pre-exercise for monsoon preparedness and rescue operation in the Kamala River of Karjanha Municipality-2 of Siraha district in Madhes Province with a purpose to reduce the risk of flood during the monsoon. In the presence of Chief Minister Lal Babu Raut, the trained manpower of the Nepali Army performed the monsoon rescue and operation drill in the river. CM Raut inaugurated the three-day Province-Level Integrated Disaster Management Exercise named ‘Exercise Hatemalo’ on Saturday amid a function.
The Bhemthang sediment field this week after the snowstorm, and in July after the flashflood (pictured below). Photos: SONAM LAMA and SHIVA BASKOTA scientific team that had gone to assess a monsoon disaster that damaged Nepal’s most expensive infrastructure project northeast of Kathmandu itself had a narrow escape in a snowstorm this week. The nearly completed $700 […]
A total of 26 districts have been badly affected by the post-monsoon disasters triggered by the torrential rains which have claimed lives of 117 people so far. The post-monsoon rainfall caused by the collective effect of the wind from the Bay of Bengal and the westerly wind caused floods, landslides, and inundations in 26 districts.
