Natural Disasters

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Federal Minister for Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs, Statistics, Planning, Development and Reform Dr Shamshad Akhtar termed National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) as a first concrete step towards making…

NEW YORK: Last year was the most expensive in US history for natural disasters, with a barrage of fires, freezes, floods and hurricanes that cost $306 billion, according to a US government report Monday. In 2017, a total of 16 disasters…

FRANKFURT: Financial losses from natural catastrophes totaled $90 billion in 2015, the lowest level since 2009, German reinsurer Munich Re said on Monday.

KARACHI: Year 2015 remained a volatile year with major terrorist attacks, natural disasters and the stories of human persistence. Following are some of the footprints of the outgoing year.

Record-breaking Hurricane Patricia rumbled across western Mexico early Saturday, uprooting trees and triggering some landslides but causing less damage than feared so far for such a massive storm, officials said.

LAHORE: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has said that we have to give a terror-free Pakistan to the future generations of the country, ARY News reports on Friday.