Author: Biswanath Sinha

Lessons from Agartala’s flood fury

by Biswanath Sinha | Aug 18, 2017

The unprecedented floods in Agartala city in northeast India due to intense rainfall over just two days point to an immediate attention required towards building urban climate resilience

A deluge on August 11-12 caught Agartala, the capital of Tripura in northeast India, unawares. Almost the entire city went under water, and there were lives lost and property damaged…Read More

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