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 …
Mumbai: Four years after the 2005 deluge, which killed over 400 people, Mumbai continues to be at the risk of floods with a high possibility of disaster in future. In fact, it is the third city after Rio De Jeneiro and Shanghai that is most prone to disaster. As a …
CHENNAI: The five-day national programme on capacity building for architects in earthquake risk management (NPCBAERM) organised by MEASI Academy of Architecture was inaugurated by noted architect C.N. Ragavendran on Thursday. Mr. Ragavendran, who designed the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Tidel Park and many other landmarks, stressed the need for creating database …
The economic benefits to society of investing in disaster risk management substantially exceed the costs. Appropriately designed risk reduction strategies represent a sound investment that is central both to alleviating poverty and to responding to the expected impacts of climate change on lives and livelihood systems. This core finding emerges …
Hydro-climatic disasters are responsible for the serious disruption of the functioning of a society or community and widespread human, material or environmental losses. These disasters and the communities exposed to them may be expected to climb with increased climate variability as a result of climate change. Tragically, the span of …
This document on chemical disaster management contains detailed descriptive lectures, talks of holistic disaster management (DM) framework, integration of chemical risk to holisitc and multi-hazard risk management, site assessment, legal framework, district level DM planning, as well as capacity building. It also includes geological, meteorological, health and community issues in …
It is a positive sign that the Government of India has finally realised the vulnerability of Assam and other parts of the North East to natural disasters like earthquake and floods and deployed one battalion of the newly formed National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to deal with any such eventuality. …
Shillong: Come monsoon. A new flood monitoring system, aided by microwave remote sensing, will come up along the Brahmaputra basin in the North-East to help plan and execute efficient emergency response measures. The centrally-funded project, executed by the Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), aims at a new
N. Vinod Chandra Menon India's high seismic risk and vulnerability is evident from the fact that 10.9% of its geographical area falls in the seismic zone V which is vulnerable to very high seismic risk, while 17.3% of the area falls in seismic zone IV vulnerable to high seismic risk. …
The breach of the Kosi embankment in Nepal in August 2008 marked the failure of conventional ways of controlling floods. After discussing the physical characteristics of the Kosi River and the Kosi barrage project, this paper suggests that the high sediment content of the Kosi River implies a major risk …
BHUBANESWAR: The World Bank team is reported to have given green signal to the Rs 441- crore National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) which would be launched in the State from April. A 14-member WB team and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) was in the State have been touring the …
In Nepal, disaster mitigation is considered as a humanitarian activity and more focus is given on post disaster activity. This report prepared for East & Southeast Asia regional seminar on flood hazard mapping, 17-19 Feb, 2009, Manila, Philippines. This report on the current situations of Flood Hazard Map (FHM) development …
The 2008-09 Economic Survey of Bihar has projected a 5.57 per cent growth in the Net State Domestic Product (NSDP)after comfortably surpassing the previous records of achieving only around three to four per cent growth per annum. Economic development of a State is a continuous process and needs regular interventions …
Udhagamandalam: With dry conditions becoming a source of concern at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near here, a proposal has been sent to the government to close it from February 15. Disclosing this to presspersons here on Wednesday, the Field Director of the Reserve Rajeev K.Srivastava said that if the proposal …
Staff Correspondent More awareness and newer strategies are essential to minimise losses caused by natural disasters, said experts at the inaugural session of an international workshop on Wednesday. About 45 per cent people of the country are living under poverty line and the number is increasing day by day, especially …
