The central government has disbursed ₹71,889 crore to states for fiscal year 2024-25, based on the 15th Finance Commission's recommendation...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, visiting cyclone-hit Tamil Nadu, conveyed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's distress over the loss of lives, e...

The Central government has approved a Rs 561.29 crore urban flood mitigation project for the Chennai Basin. The project, aimed at making Ch...

Countries must adopt a comprehensive risk management strategy to access resources from funding mechanisms to invest in response, recovery, ...

Shah said: In the last nine years, the central govt and states have achieved a lot in this area. But we can't stay content because disaster...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tuesday announced three major schemes worth over Rs 8,000 crore that would cover the modernisation of fire br...

Currently moving in at 17 kmph towards Tamil Nadu, Gaja is expected to make landfall at Nagapattinam district between 8 pm and 11 pm on Thu...

One of the key reservoirs storing water for the Chennai city, the Chembarambakkam reservoir was not operated on full capacity, said the rep...

A moderate 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Uttarakhand on the night of February 6. As usual, there was the news rush -- breaking news, special...

Based on IBM's cloud and analytics technologies and services, the centre will be located in Chennai. It has been funded through an IBM gran...

Based on IBM's cloud and analytics technologies and services, the centre will be located in Chennai. It has been funded through an IBM gran...

The panel said it does not quite accept the argument that since the rainfall was unprecedented and was more than the hundred years' average...

The committee in its report to Parliament on Friday said that “instead of putting the blame on the forces of nature“, the government should...

Mehrishi had on an earlier occasion too run into trouble with the parliamentary committee on home affairs after he walked out of a January ...

The home secretary took stock of the status of preparedness for southwest monsoon with the participating central agencies, states and UTs.

India suffered a $3 billion loss to its economy from severe rainfall and flooding in November and early December, reinsurance broker Aon Be...

Top metros like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata fall under moderate to high risk seismic zones of the country, the National Disaster Man...