Katrina knocked out power to more than a million people from Louisiana to the Florida's Panhandle.
A downgraded Hurricane Gustav packed with strong winds and heavy rains lashed the Gulf coast on Monday but spared New Orleans, the city which was devastated three years ago by Hurricane Katrina.Fearing a repeat of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, more than two million people fled their homes from coastal Mississippi, Albama and South-eastern Texas ahead of the storm, which was at one stage forecast to attain highest Category 5 before making the landfall.
A small UN coordination team reached Washington on Sunday and consulted with government officials on how best the UN can complement the US' own emergency efforts.
The spiritual leader was was invited by Austin Mayor Will Wynn. The Art of Living is conducting trauma relief workshops there.
Hurricane Gustav churning towards the Gulf Coast of the US nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated that region has not only killed any chance of Louisiana Governor Piyush 'Bobby' Jindal creating history once again, but may end up completely disrupting the Republican National Convention that was scheduled to kick off in Minneapolis-Saint Paul and run through September 4.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, once considered a potential running mate of Republican Presidential nominee John McCain, is in spotlight again as attention is focused on his state's response to Hurricane Gustav, which may make or break his political future.His predecessor Kathleen Blanco was severely criticised for her slow response to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which smashed the Gulf Coast, leading to the flooding of New Orleans three years ago.
New Orleans resident Diana Whipple stands on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain as hurricane Isaac approaches New Orleans.
The relief operation gave a new purpose to the organizations which had so far been organizing only Hindu festivals and several volunteers said what they were doing would change their entire outlook.
Afghanistan's cash-strapped government relies heavily on financial aid from the United States and elsewhere. Most of the country is impoverished and there is little infrastructure outside of a handful of cities.
India contributes 5 million dollars to the United States Red Cross for relief and rehabilitation of the victims of the devastating hurricane Katrina.
Soon after the hurricane struck, Amritanandamayi had sent the head of the centre in California, Bramhachari Dayamitra Chaitanya, to the affected areas to assess the best ways for organisation to help hurricane victims.
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India has earlier given $5million to the Red Cross.
"We still have thousands of people out of their homes, living in trailers or in temporary shelters. And most importantly, we've got to get people back to work."
He is the first official to step down in the wake of criticism over government handling of the crisis.
India has handed over a cheque of $5 million to the United States for relief activities in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, strengthened as it barreled toward the southeastern United States after killing at least 140 people, mostly in Haiti.
A teeming multitude of pets and other assorted animals are among those still being rescued from Hurricane Harvey-ravaged parts. Here's some of the most heart-warming images from the rescue.
That disasters affect corporates has been proven time and again, still most Western companies are not ready with necessary safeguards -- despite devastating events like 9/11, floods of 2005 and Hurricane Katrina, a study says.
Ramesh Patel, 51, and Chirag Patel, 26, of Union City, Georgia, were arraigned Monday. The defendants were earlier indicted by a federal grand jury on June 19, a media report said.
Allianz said the floods in India, including in the metropolitan cities of Mumbai and Chennai, caused the greatest damage after Hurricane Katrina in the United States.
Bush and Obama were kind; Trump couldn't care less.
Although Rita's immediate threat was to Florida, rough projections of its track raised the possibility that the Louisiana coast could be targeted less than a month after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.
The holy book was retrieved after an over 22-hour rescue operation by Sikh volunteers.
With India's emergence as a hub of low-cost outsourcing, global IT giants are increasingly ramping up their presence in the country.
Geeta Gandbhir, of Brookyln, New York, won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing in Nonfiction Programming. She worked as Supervising Editor on Spike Lee's 2006 HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
'Where people in the name of religion kill each other, kill others just to go to heaven, and thinking only they will go to heaven,' says Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Michael Pritchard's bottle uses a filter that can clean up any water including faecal matter making it a veritable boon in disaster-hit areas where clean drinking water is rare
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