The 2026 monsoon comes with a clear warning: Rainfall is forecast at 92% of the long-period average, with higher-than-usual probability of ...

Severe storms struck Uttar Pradesh this week, claiming over 111 lives. Gales, lightning, and heavy rain caused widespread destruction. Home...

Powerful thunderstorms swept across Uttar Pradesh, causing widespread destruction. At least 89 people died in the severe weather. Prayagraj...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered district officials to be on high alert. Heavy rains and thunderstorms are affectin...

Himachal Pradesh Cabinet approved a Rs 1 lakh hike in disaster relief, raising compensation for destroyed homes to Rs 8 lakh. Major recruit...

The government clarified that no provision exists to declare a natural disaster as a 'national disaster,' citing a 2013 reply by Congress M...

The state government has provided the additional relief of Rs 4,700 crore since June-July as compensation to farmers whose crops were damag...

The bench was unhappy with most states for failing to cite the reason why the claim applications had been rejected. Reasons must be assigne...

The important observation on the interpretation of the provision came in a judgement by which the top court directed National Disaster Mana...

"It is submitted that, as specifically pleaded before this Hon'ble Court, the issue is not of fiscal affordability, but rather of the most ...

Haryana government has sought financial assistance of Rs 1,000 from National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) as compensation for peopl...

CM Mamata Banerjee visited areas in Mirik which were worst affected by landslides, met families of the victims and distributed relief and c...

A letter written by the MHA to state govt on April 8 said under the State Disaster Response Fund, crop damage of even 33% would qualify for...

The above amount is in addition to the compensation of Rs 2 lakh from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund announced earlier in the da...

Under existing rules, states can extend relief to farmers from their respective State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) by notifying “local disas...

"Whatever relief is available to the affected families under State Disaster Relief Fund should be immediately distributed to them," he said.

The Maharashtra government’s disaster management cell is in disarray. The much-publicised cell is understaffed and has files to clear on is...