Natural Calamities

Tampa, Aug 30: Louisiana's Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal has shot off a second letter to President Barack Obama within days, seeking more and urgent federal aid for his state and declaration of emergency in the entire region, from where hundreds of ...

Beijing, Aug 8: Dozen of people were left stranded in the eastern part China as Typhoon Haikui, the worst to hit China's coast since 2005, made land fall in the Zhejiang Province on Wednesday, authorities said. Over two lakh were ...

Chennai, Dec 31: With Cyclone Thane continuing to wreak havoc in the coastal Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry, the death toll in nature’s fury has now risen to 40. The heavy rains and the strong winds caused massive ...

As Albert Einstein intelligently said, “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” The same statement holds good to sum up the ...

Joplin is a city in southern Jasper County and northern Newton County in the southwestern corner of the US state of Missouri, in which a deadly tornado struck on May 20, 2011.Joplin tornado ripped through a hospital and killed many across ...

When we look back to recall the worst natural calamities of the year 2011, Japan tsunami will be the first that slings to our mind. A massive earthquake measuring 9.0 magnitude on the Richter scale struck Japan on Mar 11, 2011, ...