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 …
Participants in a workshop on Tuesday stressed the need for taking integrated steps for effective disaster management and lessening the losses caused by natural calamities. The Disaster Management Bureau and the Noakhali district administration with the assistance of Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme jointly organised the workshop titled
HYDERABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority on Wednesday unveiled a grandiose plan to combat natural and man-made disasters. NDMA vice-chairman Gen. N.C. Vij and member M. Shashidhar Reddy said a World Bank-funded, Rs. 1,600-crore National Cyclonic Risk Mitigation Project was being finalised for 13 coastal States and Union Territories. They …
Debabrata Mohanty Posted: Sep 25, 2008 at 0015 hrs IST Bhubaneswar, September 24 Despite being the first state to have a dedicated disaster mitigation authority, Orissa
Hyderabad, Sept. 24: The Centre will soon set up a National Cyclone Disaster Management Institute at Visakhapatnam. General N.C. Vij, vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, said here on Wednesday that the state government had offered land for the institute. The institute will integrate technical support for disasters from …
HYDERABAD: Hyderabad will host the first World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM-2008) from October 21 to 24 organised by the Disaster Management, Infrastructure and Control Society (DMICS). The Andhra Pradesh government and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) are the co-hosts. The venue is the National Academy of Construction here. Former …
The government yesterday launched a 100-day employment generation scheme for 20 lakh hardcore poor across the country to mitigate their sufferings during lean season. Under the programme, one person of a family will get Tk 100 per working day against his/her labour to be utilised in different types of projects …
Business Standard / New Delhi September 12, 2008, 0:06 IST Can India learn some lessons from China in disaster management? The answer may not be wholly in the affirmative because the track record of that country in this field is not entirely impeccable. But one of the recent Chinese moves …
The overflowing Kosi had, as of end-August, wreaked destruction on more than three million people living in north and east Bihar. A field visit reports on the misery of the affected, haphazard rescue efforts and criminal exploitation of the uprooted. The immediate task is to improve relief operations and then …
The breaching of embankments in the upstream areas of the Kosi river, in Kusaha village in Nepal, has resulted in yet another round of floods in north Bihar, in the districts of Supaul, Saharsa, Araria, Madhepura, Katihar and Purnia. The disaster this time is much larger than usual. More than …
Disaster management experts at an international seminar yesterday underscored the need for developing monthly and seasonal flood forecasting technologies for agricultural planning and management, as climatic changes are likely to affect agriculture badly. They also suggested validating and disseminating the already developed know-how of forecasting flood ten days ahead and …
Nikhilesh Jha As Bihar is undone by disaster, it is time to commit to long-delayed water management projects It was gracious of the PM to declare Kosi floods a
Nikhilesh Jha As Bihar is undone by disaster, it is time to commit to long-delayed water management projects It was gracious of the PM to declare Kosi floods a
Kosi, the river of sorrow of Bihar, is in the news. The news is really bad. As long expected by the professinals, embankment has breached. Fifty thousand persons in Nepal and 2.5 million in Bihar are experiencing the fury of the Kosi flood. Embankments are no solution to the flood …
Hyderabad, Aug. 27: Experts of IIT Mumbai have asked the government to put in a place a disaster management plan for the city since floods would become common owing to climate change. They were speaking at a meeting organised by the GHMC to tackle floods and water stagnation. Hyderabad, which …
The Kosi river in north Bihar plains, eastern India presents a challenge in terms of long and recurring flood hazard. Despite a long history of flood control management in the basin for more than 5 decades, the river continues to bring a lot of misery through extensive flooding. This paper …
Hyderabad, Aug. 19: Greater Hyderabad may finally get a comprehensive disaster management plan to contain flooding in the low-lying areas besides tackling disasters. The state government has decided to study the disaster management plans of Mumbai and Ahmedabad before scripting its own plan. The plan will cover the catchment areas …
Former adviser to a caretaker government Prof Jamilur Reza Chowdhury yesterday called for starting formal education on disaster management in the universities of the country. He was speaking as chief guest at the inaugural session of a workshop on 'National Plan for Disaster Management' at the Biam auditorium in the …
UNDP's resident representative in Nepal, Robert Piper said Wednesday that the Government of Nepal has not been able to translate the risk agenda into action as most buildings constructed in the capital are hardly earthquake-resistant. Speaking to media persons at a program in Kathmandu, he also expressed serious concerns as …
