Aug 31, 2008
PURNIA: Spelling further trouble for lakhs of people already devastated by the floods in Bihar, the Kosi breached the Jankinagar Branch Canal (JBC) embankment in Purnia district on Saturday night, official sources said. The Kosi broke through its eastern embankment at...
Aug 30, 2008
Prime Minister Manmohan appropriately declared the floods in Bihar to be a “calamity of national proportion.” No doubt, even for North Bihar which faces an annual cycle of destruction, displacements and loss of human lives, these floods are truly...
Aug 30, 2008
NEW DELHI: The fury of Kosi, which struck east Bihar with a vengeance last Monday, may trigger one of the world’s biggest human evacuations ever. The exodus should continue over the next several weeks with the scared population spread over six districts finally...
