Posts Tagged ‘Flood’

WTO grants two-year trade waiver to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD – A World Trade Organisation committee meeting on Wednesday approved a European Union waiver on duties for 75 products from Pakistan, a scheme intended to boost textile exports to help Pakistan recover from massive floods in 2010.“I’m very happy. It was a long drawn out exercise, and something of a success for diplomacy,” Pakistan’s Ambassador to the WTO Shahid …

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2010-like flood likely in Ravi, Satluj

ISLAMABAD – The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has cautioned about 2010-like floods situation in the Ravi and Satluj rivers this year, saying that the situation might deter with the start of pre-monsoon season.
“Punjab Chief Minister has been suggested to keep Rs5 billion budget specially for the areas adjacent to River and Sutlej to deal with expected situation,” NDMA …

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PPP will face political acrobats: Firdous

Federal Minister for Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said here on Sunday that Pakistan People’s Party had gathered all political parties to form a coalition government. While addressing a public meeting in Sialkot, she said PPP had faced political jugglers in the past and ready to face in future. She termed high oil prices as well as floods as the cause of dearness in the country saying …

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Rs3.65bn for 2010 flood victims yet to be spent

KARACHI, Jan 23: The Sindh government has not yet spent even a single penny from the Rs1.15 billion it has received from the Central Zakat Fund in addition to the Rs2.5 billion allocated by Sindh for the

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French nuclear plants told to prepare for disasters

PARIS:  France must invest billions of euros to improve the safety systems of its nuclear facilities so they can withstand the kind of extreme shocks that triggered in Fukushima the worst nuclear accident in 25 years, the nuclear watchdog ASN said on Tuesday. French nuclear power operator EDF will need to install flood-proof diesel generators [...]

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Musical chairs

By most accounts 2011 was yet another difficult year for Pakistan’s economy. Stalled reform, energy shortages, floods, political uncertainty and a dramatic rise in geopolitical tensions

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2012 weather forecasts

From floods that crippled countries, to mega cyclones, huge blizzards, killer tornadoes to famine-inducing droughts, 2011 has been another record-breaker for bad weather. While it is too early to predict what 2012 will be like, insurers and weather prediction agencies point to a clear trend: the world’s weather is becoming more extreme and more costly. [...]

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Philippines revises up missing from floods to 1,000

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The Philippines disaster agency said on Friday more than 1,000 people were missing from a storm and flash floods last week, sharply raising the number of victims unaccounted for as the true extent of the disaster became known. Typhoon Washi and the flash floods it caused on the southern island…

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Philippines flash floods

Philippine disaster agency said on Friday more than 1,000 people were missing from a storm and flash floods last week, sharply raising the number of victims unnaccounted for as the true extent of the disaster became known. Survivors of devastating Philippines flash floods face a growing threat of disease including cholera and typhoid, officials warned  [...]

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Philippines floods declared a national calamity as death toll rises

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More than 400 coffins have been shipped to two flood-stricken cities in the southern Philippines as the death toll neared 1,000 and the president, Benigno Aquino, declared a state of national calamity. The latest count listed 957 dead and 49 missing and is expected to climb further as additional bodies…

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Philippines flood toll passes 650

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CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines (AFP) – Rescuers struggled to help survivors and a ravaged city prepared for a mass burial as the death toll from devastating flash floods in the southern Philippines rose past 650 on Sunday.
With hundreds more still listed as missing, tropical storm Washi left Philippine territory…

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Rehab process in flood-hit areas after Jan, NA told

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ISLAMABAD – Minister for Textile Makhdoom Shahabuddin on Thursday told the National Assembly that the government would start rehabilitation process in flood and rain hit areas after January 2012.
Responding to a question during question hour session in the Lower House, the federal minister said that after the floods, the…

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USAID helps Dir, Swat beekeepers restore business

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ISLAMABAD – The US government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Entrepreneurs Project, has helped 13,000 conflict and flood-affected plant collectors and beekeepers in Upper Dir and Swat restart their businesses by providing essential tools and training.
In a US-sponsored conference on the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants…

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Charles initiates appeal for Pak flood victims

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LONDON (INP) – Britain’s Prince Charles has appealed to international community to extend all sort of support for the flood victims of the Sindh and Balochistan who were leading miserable life for more than three months.
Their suffering was being overlooked which was a matter of grave concern, he…

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Prince Charles appeal for supporting Sindh and Balochistan flood victims

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British Prince Charles has appealed the international community to extend all sort of support for the flood victims of the Sindh and Balochistan who were leading miserable life for more than three months. Their suffering was being overlooked which was a matter of grave concern, he noticed.
Prince Charles, the…

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Billion-dollar weather disasters smash US record

WASHINGTON: America smashed the record for billion-dollar weather disasters this year with a deadly dozen, and counting. With an almost biblical onslaught of twisters, floods, snow, drought, heat and wildfire, the U.S. in 2011 has seen more weather catastrophes that caused at least $1 billion in damage than it did in all of the 1980s, [...]

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Lack of funds risks flood response

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KARACHI (Reuters) – Widow Hoori Fatima, 76, was still struggling with grief over the death of her son Ali Raza, the family’s only breadwinner, in late October. Wiping her tears away with her headscarf, Fatima said her son died of severe gastroenteritis and cold after they fled surging floodwaters in…

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