Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
This book is one of four reports intended to provide a quick overview of the current status of disaster preparedness planning in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan including the documents, plans, and legal instruments in place and the institutions governing their implementation. It includes a summary of the conclusions of …
It is the sage of callous and pathetic implementation of relief work and rehabilitation of the tsunam-affected. By accounts, it was the biggest natural calamity to hit India. The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) relased to Parliament reveals, the relief and reconstruction operations are marked by a …
This report addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities, which are: urban crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It analyses worldwide conditions and trends with respect to these threats and pays particular attention to their underlying causes and …
The global debate over who should take action to address climate change is extremely precarious, as diametrically opposed perceptions of climate justice threaten the prospects for any long-term agreement. Poor nations fear limits on their efforts to grow economically and meet the needs of their own people, while powerful industrial …
India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday declared that the 2006 northeast monsoon has drawn to a close. The start of the season was declared on October 19, and stood out, if at all, for the marked lack of cyclone activity in the peninsular seas. Whatever rain falling over Tamil Nadu, …
A moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 hit northern Japan on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage, meteorologists said. The quake off Miyagi prefecture on Japan's northeast coast, some 350 km north of Tokyo, took place at 9.25 am, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake …
Nanning, provincal capital of South China'a Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has developed a unique snake-based earthquake detection system. A bureau monitors nests of snakes at local farms via video cameras linked to a broadband Internet connection 24 hours a day.
An earthquake off Taiwan last night, measuring 6.7- 7.1 on the Richer scale, knocked out Internet links to India for 20-25 min and affected Reliance Communications 'FLAG and VSNL's SEA-ME-WE-3 under sea cable systems.
Two years after the deadly tsunami waves devastated India's vast coastal regions, the country has finally put in place an indigenously developed system that will give warning about tsunami within 20 minutes of its generation following an earthquake. Tests conducted on the system show high-level of accuracy on the eastern …
A quarter of the 50,000 homes built for victims of the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia's Aceh province are of questionable quality and many will have to be rebuilt, according to the leader of a team monitoring house construction. The warning comes as concerns mount that thousands of houses are likely …
Nearly all the 46,000 people made homeless by the tsunami in the Andaman islands will get permanent homes by the end of 2007, a senior official said, but activists on Monday dismissed this as impossible. The 2004 tsunami killed or left missing about 3,500 people in the remote archipelago of …
Just when people rendered homeless by the 2000 supercyclone in Orissa were crying for urgent housing assistance, officials had a vested interest in keeping them under open skies
