With the President having given his assent to the Disaster Management Bill, the National Disaster Management Authority will be in place soon, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said Monday. Though......
In a move to effectively tackle the challenges posed by natural elements like tsunamis, the government will set up soon a national disaster management authority and install an early warning......
The issue of the blast near Red Fort was raised in a meeting of a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs on Wednesday, but the Chairperson of the panel refused to discuss the matter, a......
'It concerns the sea and the security of the nation. What has happened is a big tragedy.' IMAGE: Liberia-flagged container vessel MSC ELSA 3 sank off the Kerala coast soon after departing......
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......
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,......
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kangana Ranaut visited some cloudburst-affected areas in Rampur in Shimla on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, taking stock of the situation. Relief and rescue operations are being......
IMAGE: Germany's Laura Dahlmeier was hit by a landslide in Hushe Valley in the northern mountain range in Gilgit-Baltistan province. Photograph: Robert Henriksson/Reuters German biathlete and......
What happened in Bengaluru is a wake-up call. No celebration of sport should ever come at the cost of human life, asserts veteran cricket correspondent K R Nayar. IMAGE: The remnants of the......