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 …
The great Sichuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 caught Earth scientists off guard. A year on, Alexandra Witze reports from the shattered towns on how researchers have learned from their failures.
The earthquake that killed 87,000 people in Sichuan Province in China a year ago this week was a devastating tragedy that, through all the rubble, offered a few rays of hope. In a rare burst of volunteerism, more than a million people flocked to the quake zone. The nation
Floodwaters receded somewhat in inundated towns across northern Brazil on Sunday, but the number of people made homeless by the floods rose above 300,000, and two people were missing after an overloaded canoe overturned in swift waters. Forty deaths have been confirmed in northern Brazil
Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) will spend Rs 4.5 billion on clean drinking water projects in quake affected areas during the next one and half year. According to the sources the funds would be spent in the affected areas on potable water projects while state-of-the-art testing laboratories would also …
The symposium report focuses on mitigation strategies for tsunami disasters, tsunami warning systems and historical and pre-historical tsunamis associated with earthquakes in the Indian Ocean. This symposium report focuses on mitigation strategies for tsunami disasters, tsunami warning systems and historical and pre-historical tsunamis associated with earthquakes in the Indian Ocean. …
This is the first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction prepared in the context of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. It focuses on the nexus between disaster risk and poverty, in a context of global climate change. The 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is the …
The government is taking initiatives to set up more cyclone shelters which will be used as multipurpose centres in coastal areas. This was stated by Chairman of parliamentary standing committee on food and disaster management ministry Saidul Haq at a seminar in the city yesterday. The seminar was organised jointly …
Low-lying Bangladesh risks devastating impacts from rising world sea levels caused by climate change with risks that millions will be forced from their homes this century, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said. She told Reuters that rich nations would have to help the densely populated country of 150 million people, possibly …
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday toured the wreckage left by the earthquake this month, offering comfort to survivors still living in tents here in the hardest-hit town, where 40 out of 300 residents died.
Mumbai This monsoon, the Bombay Society for Prevention against Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA) hospital in Parel promises to be a haven for all four-legged and winged stranded in a deluge. The World Society for Protection of Animals (WSPA), an international animal welfare body funded by the UN, has launched the …
Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has taken the direly needed initiative to create awareness among its members regarding the importance of Disaster and Crises Management. SCCI will organise a daylong seminar and a demonstration exercise on importance of "Disaster & Crisis Management" in active collaboration with the District …
Distribution of billions of dollars in aid after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami often ignored victims of conflicts raging in Sri Lanka and Indonesia at the time, a report on the lessons of the disaster said on Friday. The report, commissioned by a consortium of five of the hardest-hit countries …
The Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) has reconstructed 388,949 houses as per seismic resistant designs and provided Rs 64.75 billions to the victims as the rural housing subsidy, said Lieutenant General Sajjad Akram, Deputy Chairman, Erra here on Thursday. Erra is now working in full swing for the reconstruction …
Water management may be more critical in Bangladesh in the coming days due to impacts of climate change, Dutch Ambassador to Bangladesh Bea ten Tusscher said yesterday. Therefore, a long-term water management policy should be adopted for Bangladesh, she said during a meeting with Food and Disaster Management Minister Abdur …
T E Narasimhan / Sriharikota April 21, 2009, 0:47 IST The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) today successfully launched its 14th rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), an earth observation surveillance satellite, and the micro education satellite ANUSAT. The two satellites were successfully injected in orbit by an Indian rocket, …
India on Monday successfully launched a new-age all-weather Radar Imaging Satellite, RISAT-2 that would not just significantly enhance the country's capability for earth observation but could also be used for surveillance purposes. The 300-kg, 44-m tall RISAT-2, which has been built in association with Israel Aerospace Industries, can take high-resolution …
Survivors of a strong quake in a remote corner of eastern Afghanistan say they spent a freezing night in the rain outside the collapsed remains of their homes because promised government help did not reach them. Two strong quakes shook an area several dozen kilometres west of the city of …
