Disaster risk reduction: The outcomes of this meeting will guide APDIM's overall programme of work and also contribute to advancing the goa...

Japan has warned that its plans to handle a megaquake in the Nankai Trough still fall short of saving thousands of lives. The government no...

Scientists must be enabled to work in partnerships with other institutions to find more robust EWS. Disaster management should be about esc...

The total number of affected people, or 102,476 families, increased to 393,069 people. Apparently, there are 292 evacuation shelters housin...

Dr Manisha Kayande, Mahadeo Jankar, Eknath Khadse and others had raised the question. Around 1.39 crore cattle were given the Goat Pox-viru...

The assistance is given to the kin of the deceased person, including those involved in relief operations or associated in preparedness acti...

The chief ministers of all the northeastern States, Union minister Jitendra Singh and top officials of the central and state governments ar...

The term of three members of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council and six members of the Telangana Legislative Council, elected by member...

India loses $9.8 bn every year due to multi-hazard disasters as its 58.6% land is prone to earthquake and 8.5% area is vulnerable to cyclon...

Govt today said that India has emerged as a leading nation in disaster response, after having very swiftly directed its rescue efforts in q...

300 people have died and 25 suffered injuries in floods that battered the state last September, the Jammu and Kashmir government today said.

Nearly 500 scientists and policy makers, including 200 from abroad, would attend the three-day conference being hosted by KSCSTE from Febru...

The award is recognition of the company's continuous efforts to provide innovative solutions with a focus on social impact

Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni on Friday said that to maintain high growth rate, tourism industry should guard itself against vol...

Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Thursday asked industry bodies to invest in the "important area" of research and development and work ...

Prevention and mitigation of chemical disasters will now not only be limited to strict regulation and safety audits of industries handling ...

The national Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) will, next week, meet experts from different fields of medicine to draw up guidelines on ...