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How do hurricanes form? Know from NASA scientists

Washington: Even as Hurricane Harvey left Texas bruised and Hurricane Irma began lashing Florida, NASA scientists have explained in a blog how hurricanes form and what steps the US space agency has taken to study the most violent storms on Earth. People call these storms by other names, such as typhoons or cyclones, depending on […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Hurricane Harvey toll increases to 37

Washington: The death toll in the catastrophic hurricane Harvey that lashed through the US state of Texas has increased to 37, the media reported. The unrelenting storm that made landfall on August 25 unleashed its wrath on a wide swath east of Houston, leaving thousands stranded in flooded homes and forcing the evacuation of a […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
200 Indian students marooned in Houston floods

New Delhi: Two hundred Indian students of the University of Houston have been marooned in floods in the wake of tropical storm Harvey causing heavy rains and flooding in America’s fourth largest city. Two Indian students are in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Monday. “@CGHoust […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Hurricane Harvey makes landfall as Texas braces for 'catastrophic' rains

Washington: Hurricane Harvey, the biggest storm to hit the US mainland in 13 years, slammed into Texas spawning tornadoes, flooding, fires and widespread power outages across the state on Saturday. The storm, which blasted ashore as a Category 4 around 11 p.m. on Friday between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor, was a Category 1 by […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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