As security was beefed up following the Delhi blast, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board authorities asked security agencies to ensure the deployment of additional personnel to provide......
The successful effort to combat Cyclone Phailin threatens to put disaster mitigation, and a fundamental overhaul of how disaster management in India is structured, on the back-burner, says Anand......
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's exclusion from the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) has raised eyebrows in political circles and triggered speculation of a rift in the......
A young woman died and another person went missing on Saturday after heavy overnight rain in Tharali town of Chamoli district sent a rain drain flooding and depositing debris at several houses and......
After the devastating earthquake in Nepal, the Delhi government on Monday decided to conduct mock drills to check preparedness of the government agencies to deal with disasters and also chalked out......
At 11 am on 1 December, the newly constituted National Disaster Management Agency will have its big "coming out" at Gurgaon's plush DT Mall. Fire alarms in one of the mall's auditoriums will signal......
Poor land-use planning, indiscriminate approvals of building plans and the absence of disaster-risk assessment in urban design have resulted in what experts term concentrated concretization,......
IMAGE: People shift to a safer place from the flood-affected areas of Sultanpur Lodhi and Kapurthala district of Punjab. Photograph: ANI Photo India Test captain Shubman Gill expressed anguish......