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 …
With armies of rodents ravaging paddy fields in hilly areas, villagers in the eastern and north-eastern parts of Mizoram are facing an acute famine and officials fear the situation may worsen next year. James Lalsiamliana, assistant plant protection officer in the state agriculture department, today said that Dulte and surrounding …
Calcutta and its surrounding areas, the state government has decided to run a ground reality check. As Step I to combat calamities, a comprehensive study
Thousands of rats have been poisoned to death in Mizoram after armies of rodents rampaged rice fields, fuelling fears of a famine in the region. "Countless number of rodents got killed in the past two months with a massive campaign on in the State to eliminate rats using poisonous chemicals," …
Which is the most dreaded disease today: cancer, AIDS? There could be an endless debate on this. But, by all accounts, hunger in its different manifestations is the biggest killer of all. A UN report on hunger states that 854 million out of the world's 6.55 billion people are hungry
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said his organisation, Jimmy Carter Work Project, a partner of the Habitat for Humanity's Programme to build houses for the needy, is committed to construct houses for tsunami-affected people. Handing over 13 houses, each built at a cost of around Rs.2 lakh, to the people …
The cyclonic storm in the west central Bay of Bengal crossed the southern coast of Andhra Pradesh between Bapatla in Guntur and Ongole in Prakasham district battering the coastal belt of the two districts, claming at least 12 lives on Monday. The worst affected Guntur district reported 10 deaths in …
Just how wellequipped is Gurgaon, a city that houses 450 highrises, to handle natural or manmade disasters? The District Disaster Management Authority has decided to carry out a mock exercise at DLF City Centre on November 29 to assess this. The millennium city's disaster-preparedness was spotlighted in a meeting organised …
The State Government has been taking all necessary steps to provide relief to the people in flood-hit areas, rescue marooned fishermen and prevent spread of water-borne diseases, Chief Secretary L.K. Tripathy has said. Shortly after holding discussions with officials, he told reporters here on Sunday that floods had claimed 35 …
Torrential rains lashed Chennai last night, leaving several parts of the city, mostly slum colonies, inundated. With the northeast monsoons getting active last week, several low-lying areas in the city sunk under several feet of water, forcing authorities to evacuate at least 40,000 people from their homes. Chief secretary LK …
About 25,000 farmers formed an 18 km-long human chain around Burla town near Sambalpur, Orissa to protest against the Orissa government's decision to provide water from the Hirakud reservoir to the upcoming industries. The human chain began from the Gandhi Minar on a hill-top at one end of the Hirakud …
Orissa faces the possibility of being deprived of funds under the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) for quite some time. The Centre is looking into allegations of
The State Government has declared all the districts as the drought hit. The State government has taken special schemes to combat the situation. Among them two important ones are tractorising of land free of cost and distribution of free seeds. According to the data available in the office of the …
The Andhra Pradesh government is understood to have decided to penalise Water and Power Consultancy Services (India) Limited (Wapcos) for failing to complete the survey in time on Pranahita-Chevella lift irrigation scheme. The public sector enterprise under the aegis of the union ministry of water resources was hired for Rs …
The Union ministry of science and technology has launched a Natural Disaster Information System. With this multi-lingual disaster information system, people will come to know about natural disaster in 30 seconds through alerts send from the Indian Meteorological Department to the subscriber directly.
The Central government will frame earthquake and flood guidelines by Decemberend as part of the proposed National Disaster Management (NDM) policy to prevent damage to life and property in natural calamities. The draft NDM policy was put forward for discussion here on Friday and the final document will be presented …
The EOC, coming up on the premises of the Deputy Commissioner's office here, has been described as one which is going to be the nerve centre for all disaster management operations throughout the district. It will have the latest equipment and machinery, to predict and cope with natural calamities like …
The Meteorological Agency has introduced a quick tsunami warning system to help Okushiri islanders evacuate from their homes before tideal waves arrive. Okushiri island, a 143-square-kilometre island in the Sea of Japan off the western part of the Oshima Peninsula in Hokkaido, was the scene of a disaster caused by …
Afghanistan and the United Nations appealed for urgent help and $43 million to combat the impact of a drought and rising fighting in the south. Barely half the $76 million requested for a six month programme proposed in July has been raised and the government and UN said in a …
The Public Works Department has launched a set of precautionary measures centred on Velachery, to strengthen monsoon preparedness. The department has formed bunds starting from the MRTS culvert and has linked the bunds to the Kaiveli culvert to regulate the unrestricted flow of rainwater from Veerangal Odai into the Pallikaranai …
More than 131 x 106 metric tons (MT) of inorganic sediments accumulated in coastal wetlands when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita crossed the Louisiana coast in 2005, plus another 281 x 106 MT when accumulation was prorated for open water area. The annualized combined amount of inorganic sediments per hurricane equals …
