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 …
Over 50,000 people are still living on the dangerous slopes of hills in the port city risking their lives to fall an easy prey to landslide in the upcoming rainy season. Experts fear that callousness of the authorities concerned and lack of awareness among the landlords and tenants living on …
Most Bhutanese schools are rethinking their disaster management plans and advocacy programs, after two students were washed away in Thimphu in one of the worst natural disasters to hit Bhutan last week. A 16-year-old Thimphu student was killed on May 26, when the bridge he was crossing at Semtokha collapsed …
Traditional farming, fishing, pastoralism/herding, foraging and forestry are based on longestablished knowledge and practices that help to ensure food and agricultural diversity, valuable landscape and seascape features, livelihoods and food security. However, traditional livelihoods and indigenous plant varieties, landraces and animal breeds are now increasingly endangered by large-scale commercialization of …
This publication examines the use of index insurance to help reduce vulnerability and poverty and adapt to climate change. Experience in index insurance to-date has been limited to individual case studies, which show promise of lessening the impacts of climate shocks, and enabling investment and growth in the agriculture sector. …
This 2009 edition of the World Disasters Report focuses on disaster risk reduction. It argues that early warning without early action is not enough and calls for cost-effective prevention measures, rather than the expensive response operations. World Disasters Report 2009 focuses on two key aspects of disaster risk reduction: early …
This document details the guidelines aimed at institutionalising the landslide hazard mitigation efforts, to make society aware of the various aspects of landslide hazard in the country and to prepare the society to take suitable action to reduce both risks and costs associated with this hazard. Includes regulatory and non-regulatory …
Emergency centre constructed at a cost of Rs. 10 lakh on Villupuram Collectorate complex 169 districts in 17 States identified as disaster-prone and 13 are in Tamil Nadu Administration has tied up with State Transport Corporation for transporting affected people VILLUPURAM: The district administration has put in place an action …
Nestle Lanka Limited officially handed over possession to the government of Sri Lanka its completed long term post-tsunami reconstruction projects, on Tuesday. These projects, worth Rs.125 million, spanned affected coastal areas from Negombo to Mullaitivu. According to Nestle, the staff of the company decided to initiate projects that would facilitate …
No relief materials reached many remote areas in the south and south-west left battered by tidal surges whipped up by cyclone Aila even three days after the inundation in which thousands of people were marooned without food and drinking water. The unofficial death toll rose to 178. The disaster management …
- Aila prompts disaster review, preventive measures Aila, the speed demon that tossed and terrorised Bengal, has put Jharkhand, the cradle of many a tempest, on its toes. Governor Syed Sibtey Razi today went into a huddle with adviser G. Krishnan and senior state functionaries, including chief secretary A.K. Basu, …
Nearly 200 people have been killed by a cyclone that ripped through Bangladesh and eastern India, while millions remained marooned by floodwater or forced to live in shelters. The death toll in Bangladesh rose to more than 130 following recovery of dozens of bodies Tuesday, newspapers and private television channels …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs 2 lakhs to the kin of each of those killed in the cyclone, which hit eastern part of the country, even as the Centre mobilised the disaster relief mechanism to meet the situation. Cyclone Aila spawned from a …
Thousands more people in Australia's flood-hit east were told to leave their homes on Saturday as gale-force winds lashed the coast and emergency services said up to 20,000 people had been cut off. One man has died and dozens have been rescued from rising waters after days of rain and …
Daishin Investment Trust Management, which runs a climate change fund that invests in companies engaged in disaster relief, plans a new commodities fund this year to capitalize on the effects of global warming. Yong-Jin Kim, who manages Daishin's $20 million Global Climate Change fund, likes makers of fire trucks, rescue …
More than 5,500 tsunami affected orphaned children still remain in shelters around the country, the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) revealed yesterday adding that it would launch a programme to seek guardians for these children. Speaking to the Daily Mirror, NCPA Chairman Jagath Wellawatta also said that more than Rs. …
Pune Nearly 89 villages in the district have been identified as flood-prone by the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA). Of them, eight villages have been named highly vulnerable. Chief executive officer and resident deputy collector Prakash Kadam said the district is ready to face the monsoon. In Pune city, the …
Pakistan is not a significant contributor to global carbon emission; however it ranks very high among countries most vulnerable to the adverse effects of changing climate. This was stated by Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, Federal Minister for Environment, while addressing the participants of the concluding session of a workshop 'Building …
