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April 2008
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DISASTER HIGHLIGHTS
Tornado
Sweeps through Little Rock, Ark.
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Residents
assessed the damage Friday from a tornado that hit central Arkansas,
damaging businesses, felling trees and knocking out power to
thousands of customers. The storm clean-up has become a familiar
scene. Over the past two months, parts of Arkansas have endured a
strong tornado during a storm outbreak that killed 13, a foot of
snow, upward of a foot of rain and near-record flooding. ''We've been
assaulted by mother nature over the last few months,'' Gov. Mike
Beebe said.
The New York Times,
04/04/2008
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Kolis
to protest against shortage of fish today
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A
shortage of fish has set the alarm bells ringing in koliwadas that
dot the city's smog-filled shoreline. Kolis, the city's original
inhabitants who have been asking the Maharashtra government to
officially declare a fish drought, have planned a morcha on Monday.
It will attract 600 fishing vehicles that will be parked in the sea
at Nariman Point. A public rally has been planned at Cuffe Parade,
one of the vintage Koli bastis of the city.
by
Ambarish Mishra,
The
New York Times,
04/04/2008
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Months
after the disaster, little relief for Bihar’s flood victims
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Chaitu
Sadai stopped eating rats two decades ago. But with his village’s
rice paddies still buried under a thick blanket of silt washed up by
last summer’s devastating monsoon, he’s thinking it may be time
to start again.“We have no food, we have no work. The people say
they don’t know what to do,” said the gaunt 70-year-old. “I
know we can eat rats.”Sadai and his fellow villagers are at the
bottom of India’s elaborate caste system. They are outcasts, so low
that rat eating is in their tradition.
by
Matthew Rosenberg, MINT, 26/04/2008
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Orissa
heat wave: Toll now 50
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The
reported cases of heat wave deaths in Orissa during this summer have
gone up to 50. However, the state government confirmed only six
deaths till Saturday morning while describing twenty seven of these
deaths as ‘deaths due to other reasons’. Final reports are yet to
arrive from the districts so far as the remaining seventeen deaths
are concerned.
The
Deccan Herald, 27/04/2008
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