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Source: Reuters * Large mines may see costs up but quick start to projects * Bigger compensation could boost govt's rural support base * Mines minister not in favour of iron ore export duty hike (Adds quotes, ...

Source: Reuters NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - India plans to raise the compensation paid to people displaced by large mining projects, the federal mines minister said on Monday. The government will introduce a new ...

AmeriCares An AmeriCares team in India is responding to the disaster with medicines, medical supplies and disaster aid. Read more and find out how you can help.

Action by Churches Together (ACT) - Switzerland Loss of shelter, sanitation and sources of income are the biggest problems facing survivors of the worst floods in southern India in 100 years, says Sushant Agrawal, director of an ACT International ...

Source: Reuters For more on Asia-Pacific disasters, click [ID:nSP24809] HYDERABAD, India, Oct 5 (Reuters) - About 2.5 million people crammed into temporary relief shelters after floods triggered by torrential rains ...

A massive rescue and relief operation is under way after severe flooding in southern India left more than 230 dead and millions without homes. Original article

Source: Reuters By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India, July 20 (Reuters) - Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains over the past week have killed at least 36 people in the eastern Indian state of Orissa and inundated ...

Source: AlertNet NEW DELHI - Half a million people in northeast India have been forced from their homes after flash floods inundated towns and villages, destroying property, crops and livestock, aid agencies said on ...

Date: 18 Feb 2009
Source: Save the Children

ActionAid International- India Questions were answered by Sanjay Krishna of ActionAid's Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan (Shelter Rights Campaign). The campaign was set up in 2000 to work with homeless people in India to help tackle the ...

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre In 2007-2008, civilians in various parts of India continued to be displaced by internal armed conflict and separatist, ethnic or communal violence, as well as conflict stemming from the threat of development-induced displacement.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland New Delhi-Geneva (ICRC) – the Assam State Branch of the Indian Red Cross Society and the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) are delivering aid to over 20,000 people who had to flee their homes when communal violence flared up in the Udalguri and Darrang districts of Assam.

Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) - India SEEDS, A Non-Government Organisation is presently involved in building resilience for communities against future floods while rehabilitating them, post disaster, in one of the most recurrent flood ...

Source: Reuters (Adds deaths in Nepal) Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Rescue workers evacuated some 200,000 people after flooding by one of India's largest rivers killed 16 people at ...

Source: Reuters Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Rescue workers evacuated some 200,000 people after flooding by one of India's largest rivers killed 16 people at the weekend, officials said on ...

I've flown to Bihar a few times in the last few months, following up on the aftermath of the 2007 floods, but this time it was different. Peering over the top of the latest government update, smudged from being hastily wrenched from the printer, I noted two other individuals who looked suspiciously like aid workers - you can tell by their dress sense!

Given the overwhelming and unexpected influx of media coverage and agency reports on the most recent flooding to plague Bihar, it was an easy assumption to make. It's not often that a river changes its course by 100 km (60 miles), paying no heed to the countless communities in its path as it returned inexorably towards its original route of 350 years ago. Moreover, as one of India's poorest and most troubled states, Bihar rarely receives such exposure or elicits such national and international concern.

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Date: 09 Sep 2008
Source: Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance

Source: Reuters Sep 2 - The Indian authorities air drop relief material in the flood-hit eastern state of Bihar after the worst floods in 50 years. Three million people have been displaced and at least 90 killed ...

Source: Reuters By Biswajyoti Das GUWAHATI, India, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Heavy rains and rising floodwaters forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in northeastern India and sent elephants and ...

Date: 01 Sep 2008
Source: Reuters