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DT Next Explains: How to stay safe during lightning strikes, and why...
While many assume lightning strikes are rare or random, data shows otherwise: nearly 1,500 to 2,000 people die in India every year due to lightning.
Quake of 4.0-magntiude hits Delhi, strong tremors rock NCR
17 Feb 2025 7:35 AM ISTThe earthquake, with its epicentre in New Delhi, struck at a depth of five kilometres at 5:36 am, it said in a post on X
Editorial: Infernal affairs
17 Jan 2025 6:40 AM ISTA preliminary estimate by AccuWeather placed the economic losses so far between $135 billion and $150 billion, lending credence to the notion that the...
Boxing Day tsunami
30 Dec 2024 6:00 AM ISTLearnings in 20 years since deadliest natural disaster in history
20 years after killer tsunami, Tamil Nadu goes from ill-prepared to...
26 Dec 2024 7:00 AM ISTOn December 26, 2004, the State was hit by a tsunami that levelled many coastal villages, killing thousands and injuring many more. The destruction it...
Death toll rises to 40 from rainstorms, flash floods in Afghanistan
16 July 2024 2:54 PM ISTSimilarly, five people were killed as flash floods swept away most parts of eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province on Monday morning.
Death toll from Brazil floods hits 169
27 May 2024 8:07 AM ISTMore than 2.3 million residents have been displaced by weeks of flooding and overflowing rivers, Xinhua news agency reported.
Death toll in Brazil's worst storms rises to 29
3 May 2024 11:00 AM ISTBrazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday visited Santa Maria, one of the state's worst-hit cities, and met with Leite.