has contributed Rs 25 million to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund for Bihar flood victims, an official said here on Saturday. Built by American aircraft maker Lockheed Martin, six C-130Js ...

Bihar, a poor, populous state in northern India, is ravaged by floods during the monsoon season every year. This year has been no different, with some seven million people affected. I travelled ...

This is what happened to the Kosi River in August of 2008. Suddenly ... its neighboring Indian state of Bihar. This ...

Picture by Sanjay Choudhary A 150-metre breach in the embankment along the Ganga river in Bhagalpur district of Bihar brought a deluge affecting thousands of people and prompting the state government ...

PATNA, India (CNN)-- The Indian government said Wednesday it is sending food and equipment to help the estimated 3 million people in a flood-ravaged area of the country's northeast. The flooding ...

The Bihar government is planning to construct barrages on several rivers in six districts in the northern part of the state bordering Nepal to mitigate the recurring flood problem, Water Resources ...

He also mentioned that the embankment, which was constructed in 2008 at ... worsening flood situation is causing growing concern as rising water levels threaten more areas across Bihar.

PTI picture The threat of devastating floods loomed large over Bihar on Monday following incessant rainfall in north Bihar and Nepal, coupled with massive discharge of water from the Gandak and Kosi ...

Its push led to the passage of the Guwahati Water Bodies (Preservation and Conservation) Act in 2008. Conserving Guwahati’s ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Patna, Aug 27 (IANS) The flood situation in Bihar's Begusarai District has worsened, with more than five panchayats, including Mirnaipur, Bahadurpur, and Gopalpur in the Balia block ...

Gulfport was protected by a levee rated to withstand a 100-year flood. Although it wasn't designed to protect the town from a flood on the scale of last week's, it was enough protection that the ...

In August 2008, the Kosi River dramatically shifted 75 miles eastward, causing catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Bihar. Scientists refer to this phenomenon as an avulsion, where a river abruptly ...