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...
Cloudbursts killed five and 11 people were missing across districts in Uttarakhand early Friday, while a swathe of Manali town along a river was washed away in rain, veritably turning into a...
A preliminary inquiry into the devastating nightclub fire in Goa suggests that "electric firecrackers" were set off inside the premises, sparking a blaze that claimed 25 lives, Chief Minister...
Sniffer dogs nosed their way through high piles of rubble, drones circled overhead and rescue personnel searched for the missing through the sludge in disaster-hit Dharali on Friday, four days...
Slamming the Uttarakhand government for its "lackadaisical" approach to controlling forest fires, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the state's chief secretary to personally present himself...
Public general insurance companies to collaborate for speedy settlement of claims Flashfloods in Uttarakhand, which have claimed the lives of over 500 people in the past few days, have also got...
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