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 …
Handbook on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction (the Handbook) has been developed in support of the Checklist on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction (the Checklist), a tool to assess whether and to what extent the existing legal framework of a country is meeting its full potential in supporting DRR. The …
The correct location of earthquake emergency shelters and their allocation to residents can effectively reduce the number of casualties by providing safe havens and efficient evacuation routes during the chaotic period of the unfolding disaster. However, diverse and strict constraints and the discrete feasible domain of the required models make …
CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately release Rs 5,000 crore, ‘on account’, from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) for taking up relief and restoration works in rain-ravaged Chennai and other parts of the State. Responding to her, the Prime Minister, who …
This report provides evidence for three types of benefits – or dividends of resilience – that DRM investments can yield: Avoiding losses when disasters strike; Stimulating economic activity thanks to reduced disaster risk; and Development co-benefits, or uses, of a specific DRM investment. While the first dividend is the most …
Downpour carves out islands of misery; citizens rise to challenge The incessant, record-breaking rainfall in the city and its suburbs could reduce this burgeoning metropolis by the coast into islands of misery, but not break the resilience of its people. With rivers swelling and submerging bridges and lakes in the …
Chennai on Wednesday recorded the heaviest-ever rainfall in over a century — of 29.4cm and 34.5cm — in the Met office's two observatories here in 24 hours, or more than half the average rainfall for the entire northeast monsoon, smashing the previous high of 26.1cm in 1901 and pummelling an …
SRINAGAR: The lack of disaster preparedness in valley increases its risk of vulnerability manifold towards damage during the natural calamities. Though Kashmir valley has always been declared as highly prone to earthquakes yet the absence of proper disaster management adds to the risk of damage and destruction. Before the deadly …
The study proposes a number of policy options for the Urban Poor Poverty Reduction Working Group (led by Phnom Penh Municipality and UNICEF) and Joint Action Group for DRR to consider: mainstream DRR into urban planning, implement regulations that limit the negative environmental impacts of rapid urban development, increase the …
This publication gives an overview of “Strengthened Disaster Risk Reduction in Central Asia and the Caucasus through greater fostering of the Hyogo Framework for Action priorities” activities in eight project cities of Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The project is implemented by UNISDR with financial support of the European Commission’s …
TAIYUAN, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's Yaogan-29 remote sensing satellite was launched on Thursday at 5:24 a.m. from Taiyuan launch site in Shanxi Province, north China. The satellite will be used for experiments, land surveys, crop yield estimates and disaster relief. Yaogan-29 was carried by a Long March-4C rocket, the …
CHENNAI: Within a couple of hours of receipt of memorandum on the losses caused by heavy rains in Tamil Nadu from Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi allocated Rs 939.63 crore for dealing with the situation arising from the floods. The PM’s office said that a …
ALMORA: The district of Almora has been selected for a pilot project to study means of disaster management, jointly organized by the National Institute of Disaster Management, under the home ministry, Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group, and US-based Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET). Under the programme, the impact of …
Using the Climate Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI), this study measures climate disaster resilience of Dhaka City in its seven drainage zones - at ward and thana level. The analysis provides a wealth of information that can be used to identify priority sectors in Dhaka for improving disaster resilience. It identifies …
One of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) products, the Terrestrial Water Storage Anomaly (TWSA), was used for assessing large-scale flood risk through Reager's Flood Potential Index (RFPI) by Reager and Famiglietti (2009). The efficacy of the proposed RFPI for flood risk assessment was evaluated over the continental US …
The focal topic of the WorldRiskReport 2015 is food security. The report examines the connections, influences and fields of tension between food security and disaster risk. It also includes the WorldRiskIndex which evaluates the exposure to natural hazards faced by 171 countries and assesses the inherent vulnerability in the countries …
The main aim of this paper is to test economic benefits of landslide prevention measures vs. post-event emergency actions. To this end, detailed- and large-scale analyses were performed in a training area located in the northeastern Italian pre-Alps that was hit by an exceptional rainfall event occurred in November 2010. …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Monday released more than Rs 2.83 billion for the victims of earthquake. According to Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) sources, initially, the KP government has released funds for 14 districts including more than Rs 710 million for Shangla, Rs 520 million for Swat and Rs …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of Performance Audit of ‘Natural Disaster in Uttarakhand, June, 2013 (Response, Relief and Restoration of Damaged Infrastructure of immediate nature)’. The Report has been laid on the table of the State Legislature Assembly on 03-11-2015.
Disaster management ministers from Japan, China and South Korea agreed Wednesday to strengthen cooperation on promoting a U.N. action plan adopted in March to respond to emergencies. At a meeting held in Tokyo, Taro Kono, Japan’s minister for disaster management, Dou Yupei, China’s vice minister of civil affairs, and Lee …
