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FLOODS
September 2008	The wrath of the Kosi, Sudhirendar Sharma, MINT, 27/09/2008 Kosi’s chilling history: No lessons ever learnt, Inder Malhotra ,The Asian Age 17/09/2008 Kosi: paying for past mistakesDinesh Kumar MishraThe Deccan Herald 17/09/2008 Ignorance and arrogance make for good floods, Sunita Narain, Down To Earth 16/09/2008 That sinking feeling,Down To Earth 16/09/2008 The flood of misery, Amitabh Srivastava, India Today 29/09/2008 'Bureaucratic delay hindering Kosi embankment repair' ,The Business Standard 16/09/2008 A snake in knots, R. Krishnakumar, Frontline 26/09/2008 What we can learn from China's river of sorrow, Reshma Patil, The Hindustan Times 08/09/2008 Why rivers decided to run away, Divya A, The Times of India 08/09/2008 Damned Waters, Debarshi Dasgupta, Outlook 15/09/2008 Kosi's Fury , Sanjeev Kumar Jha , Sahara Time 13/09/2008 Not floods but criminal design failure, Sadanand Menon, The Business Standard 05/09/2008 Rage of the river, Amitabh Srivastava, India Today 08/09/2008 Everybody loves a natural disaster, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, The Telegraph 23/09/2008
August 2008	Overnight floods in A.P. leave 30 dead; normal life paralysed,The Hindu 10/08/2008 Murderous water of dams, Himanshu Thakkar, Civil Society 01/08/2008 City deluge in 2005, relief cheque in '08, Prafulla Marpakwar, The Times of India 31/08/2008 Bihar: Madhepura goes 6ft under waterA, bhay Mohan Jha, The Times of India 31/08/2008 No let-up in flood situation, K. Balchand, The Hindu 31/08/2008 Apocalypse Now, Paramita Ghosh and Soumitra Ghosh, Hindustan Times 31/08/2008 Not just a force of nature at all,The Hindustan Times 28/08/2008 Sorrow swallows villages, Nalin Verma, The Telegraph 28/08/2008 Not a natural disaster,The Business Standard 28/08/2008 Marooned in the east, Amitabh Jha, The Hindustan Times 28/08/2008 Work to fill Kosi breach in Nepal begins, Sreelatha Menon, Business Standard 28/08/2008 Orissa floods blamed on NH-60, Biswajit Padhi, Civil Society 01/08/2008
July 2008	Month after floods, two lakh homeless, Anshuman Phadikar, The Telegraph,21/07/2008 It has rained PILs, but city keeps suffering, Shibu Thomas, The Times of India, 02/07/2008
June 2008	Caught in the current Bharat Dogra Down To Earth, 01/06/2008 Typhoon toll rises to 155 in Philippines Paul Alexander, 23/06/2008 Flash floods inundate Wis. town for 2nd time The New York Times, 10/06/2008 Storms bring new round of destruction to Midwest The New York Times,07/06/2008
January 2008	Central team to finalise report on floods in 15 days, The Hindu, 13/01/2008 Centre finally wakes up to flood reality, The Times of India, 18/01/2008
October 2007	Paddy crops submerged in three delta districts, The Hindu, Madras, 29 Oct 2007 Floods claim 31 lives in State, R.K. Radhakrishnan, The Hindu, Madras, 31 Oct 2007 Several villages cut off in Cuddalore, The Hindu, Madras, 29 Oct 2007
September 2007	Water, water in many places and a mayor who tells you not to bother,The Telegraph, Calcutta, 26 Sep 2007 Downpour Distress,The Telegraph, Calcutta, 25 Sep 2007 Landslips in Kalimpong, Kurseong, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 08 Sep 2007 Washed away by the Brahmaputra, Jayanti Ghosh,The Asian Age, Bombay, 22 Sep 2007 Many out of work as 7 tea gardens are shut, Manoj Anand ,The Asian Age, Bombay, 15 Sep 2007 Floods: Time for a rethink,Sumana Narayanan, Archita Bhatia & Others ,Down to Earth Magazine, 15 Sep 2007 State to seek Rs 600-crore Central flood relief , The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 23 Sep 2007 Bangalore City in deep water, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 15 Sep 2007 Rain stops, but woes remain, P M Raghunandan,Satish Shile. ,The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 17 Sep 2007 Under water, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 15 Sep 2007

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