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Officials say rescuers in eastern Pakistan have evacuated tens of thousands of people to safer areas after neighboring India released water from overflowing dams and swollen rivers into low-lying border regions

Further flooding is predicted in cities including Karachi in the south of Pakistan.

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by retired Brigadier Kuldip Singh. In this tense news week, we begin by dissecting India’s Operation Sindoor and strikes on terror camps in Pakistan on May 7. “Neither side, particularly India, wants…

An eruption of Indonesia's Lewotobi Laki-laki stratovolcano rained debris and ash on villages on the island of Flores.

Dr Mishra was delivering a keynote address at NDMA Workshop on “Why Disaster Risk Insurance Matters – Key Concepts and Benefits”. Read further on Dynamite News:

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued a 'red alert' for Uttarakhand. Read further on Dynamite News:

Severe flooding in Liberia has led a group of senators to propose relocating the capital city away from overcrowded and poorly managed Monrovia, a suggestion met with a mixture of enthusiasm and hesitancy in the West African country.

Nine people have been killed, as the cyclone, which made landfall on Sunday, now weakens and heads inland.

The record warming of 2023 has so far not been fully explained since it was much warmer than expected just from the superposition of El Niño on global warming; the rest could be due to anticyclonic circulations.