Earthworks, Embankments, and Excavation ②]Complete summary of construction management, compaction, and slope work for exam preparationIn the previous part ①, we organized: Basics of earthworks ...

Resilience building in flood-prone areas require capacity-building of the community so that people can anticipate, absorb, adapt, mitigate and transfer disaster risk Villagers try to repair a breached ...

The tragedy of floods in Bihar is an annual saga. This year, according to the eastern Indian state’s disaster management department, 1,333 villages in 16 districts were flooded, affecting a population ...

Bhagalpur: The district administration has stepped up efforts to protect Ganga embankments from further erosion as floodwater entered low-lying areas and soil erosion intensified along the riverbanks.

Life had come to a standstill in the Ganga-Brahmaputra floodplains where large tracts of land were reeling under floods. Everywhere there were submerged houses, broken bridges, and wasted railway ...

While we need some time to understand the extent of damage Cyclone Sitrang has caused, I assume that the overall damage would be much less than previous such calamities. I have learnt from the ...

While dams and embankments are often touted as interventions for better flood management, they have often been at the root of more severe flood disasters. This is not the first flood disaster in the ...

GUWAHATI: Over 60 per cent of 4,800 km embankments in Assam require repair or complete reconstruction as their carrying or flood resistance capacity has waned, the state Assembly was informed on ...

With a driving vision of building tomorrow, a collection of excavators are helping to protect the Sundarbans, a historic region between India and Bangladesh, from the threat of flooding. In Bengali, ...

Water started leaking from a small hole in the embankment of the Dwarakeshwar river in Khanakul, Hooghly, quickly eroding a 200-metre stretch of the earthen structure within just a few hours. A local ...

IN the last week of August this year the flood protection embankment at Shariakandi of Bogra District failed. As a result several hundred villages in Bogra and Sirajganj were inundated with loss to ...

Notobor Malo plants mangroves next to his home every year to halt erosion by the rising sea. Some saplings die, but some survive to protect his riverside home in Mathurapur, a village in the Satkhira ...