In the Eastern Congo, a troubling surge of Ebola is compounded by deliberate attacks on medical facilities, igniting frustration among the ...

Global security faces growing challenges. DRDO scientist Upendra Kumar Singh stresses the need for stronger preparedness against chemical, ...

The Defence Research and Development Organisation has opened a new Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear field training centre in ...

March 11 marks a day of significant global events. In 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Japan faced a massive earthquake and tsun...

The move came after the findings of circulating poliovirus in five counties in New York. According to state health authorities, this step w...

The Nostradamus of the Balkan had predicted that there will be a pandemic which would occur due to a frozen virus. That would mean another ...

Chief Secretary V P Joy in his latest order said the government had rescinded all the restrictions imposed under the Disaster Management Ac...

"WHO has warned that when there are mass gatherings, more contagious variants and the vaccination coverage is still low, this can create a ...

Biden, a Democrat who took over from Republican President Donald Trump on Wednesday, has promised a fierce fight against the pandemic that ...

As per the State's Health and Family Welfare Department, around 295 personnel including National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Odisha Dis...

NDRF first flagged the threat from the virus, which originated in Wuhan (China), in February and has since then been training personnel at ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the tech giant’s retail operation outside China was going online for two weeks to fight the global viral pandemic. ...

The state cabinet met on Friday morning and declared, the Covid-19 pandemic, a “state disaster” under the Disaster Management Provision Act...

A top emergency official and at least 23 members of parliament reportedly contracted the virus and now suffer from the COVID-19 illness it ...

During the holiday-shortened week ahead, there’s little in the calendar of events that looks likely to pull investors away from virus headl...

Leading IIMs, still smarting under the recent fiasco over online CAT debut, are creating their own firewall against similar disasters in fu...

Soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service-level requirements to mitigate risk to business are putting disaster recovery (DR) pre...