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More Than 100 Feared Dead After Landslides In Sri Lanka

Roughly 150 people are feared dead on Wednesday after more than three days of heavy rainfall triggered two landslides in central Sri Lanka. Rescuers have been digging throu...

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Environment

How Climate Change In The Arctic Could Cause Tsunamis In The UK

Disasters are ranked according to both their potential for damage and the likelihood that they will occur in the next five years. An influenza pandemic, for example, is con...

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Environment

At Least 97 Bodies Pulled From Landslide Near Jade Mine In Myanmar

The landslide happened when a mountain of mining debris gave way in the early hours of?Saturday?in Hpakant, an area that produces some of the world's highest-quality jade. ...

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Gender

Ireland Passes Law Allowing Trans People To Choose Their Legal Gender

Transgender people in Ireland have won legal recognition of their status after a law was passed allowing them to change their legal gender with no medical or state interven...

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Sustainable Development

Countries Pitch In For Early Warning Systems And Accurate Weather Projections

Taking into account the rising frequency of extreme weather events across the world and subsequent damages, the Subsidiary Body of Scientific and Technological Advice (SBST...

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Environment

Getting disaster resilience right

Last year, Asia Pacific suffered 6,000 fatalities and economic losses of almost US$60 billion due to natural disasters. UNESCAP executive secretary Shamshad Akhtar outlines...

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Environment

Flood and devastation sweep Assam, Meghalaya

Cloudburst, landslides kill 27 and damage infrastructure, property and crops in Garo Hills and West Khasi Hills Assam?s capital, Guwahati city, which received heavy rains o...

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Festivals

Jagran Film Festival retrospectively commemorates Bimal Roy cinema

~Sujata, Do Bigha Zameen, Madhumati, Devdas and Bandini will be screened at 5th Jagran Film Festival, Mumbai~<...

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Environment

Jammu and Kashmir floods: Priyanka Chopra, Shahid Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor support and pray for the victims!

These B-town celebs took to Twitter and showed their support for the J&K flood affected victims Just a few days back, the state of Jammu and Kashmir was hit by a mammot...

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Bollywood

Jammu and Kashmir floods: Priyanka Chopra, Shahid Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor support and pray for the victims!

These B-town celebs took to Twitter and showed their support for the J&K flood affected victims Just a few days back, the state of Jammu and Kashmir was hit by a mammot...

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