Katrina knocked out power to more than a million people from Louisiana to the Florida's Panhandle.
For the Stalin government to win back the confidence of voters ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, post-flooding restoration works, their speed and efficacy would be closely watched, and not just by the political Opposition, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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New Orleans resident Diana Whipple stands on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain as hurricane Isaac approaches New Orleans.
A surge in international oil prices may translate into an increase in the retail selling price of petrol and diesel in India as oil companies face extreme margin squeeze, sources said. Petrol and diesel prices have remained unchanged for 12 days but now the international rate surge is exerting pressure. Current prices of petrol and diesel in the international market are higher by around $4-6 per barrel as compared to average prices during August. However, no increase in retail prices has been affected by oil companies so far, sources said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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."
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
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.
He is the first official to step down in the wake of criticism over government handling of the crisis.
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.
'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.
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.
India has earlier given $5million to the Red Cross.
The flight, carrying 20.5 tonnes of relief supplies, will arrive at Little Rock Air Force Base in the Southern United States on September 12, the Indian Embassy said in Washington.
Katrina aid: US accepts nearly $1 billion from some 95 nations
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