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HP to seek help from IITs, ISRO to study causes of repeated natural disasters

July 31, 2025 8:58 am

Three people were killed in the Monday incident, a large number of vehicles were buried and several houses were inundated.

Disaster risk insurance can enhance key aspects of human security.

Why climate change is a national security issue

October 17, 2024 10:15 am

Insurance can mitigate vulnerabilities to unpredictable events, climate disasters. It’s important to realise that human security holds the key to national security, especially in regions where proxy wars, based upon terrorism, abound.

Helene's death toll reaches 200 as crews try to reach remote areas hit by storm

October 04, 2024 3:46 am

As government planes delivered aid and rescue crews searched for survivors, storm survivors relied on each other for support.

Disasters triggered over half million internal displacements in India in 2023: Report

May 14, 2024 7:20 pm

At 3,52,000, India's flood displacement figure was the lowest since 2008, with the largest event triggering about 91,000 displacements in Assam in June, affecting 20 districts, according to the report by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

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Study needed to find if enemies involved in rise of natural disasters in border states: Rajnath

January 20, 2024 7:42 am

Inaugurates 35 projects for boosting connectivity, military movement to LAC, LoC

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Proactive approach, tech key to minimise damage from natural disasters: PM Modi

March 11, 2023 3:59 am

During the programme, Modi also felicitated awardees of the Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar for 2023 — Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) and the Lunglei Fire Station, Mizoram.

Watch how rescuers are digging through rubble for missing people in Turkey, Syria

February 10, 2023 1:02 pm

Nearly 21,000 have been killed and tens of thousands of people have been displaced or injured after a 7.8 magnitude quake and several aftershocks hit Turkey and neighbouring Syria on February 6

COP27: One victory, and some big disappointments

November 24, 2022 8:55 am

The COP tried to arrest concerns of vulnerable nations. But it provided no roadmap in transition to clean energy, or mobilising much-needed funds.

Is there a link between natural disasters and mental health? Experts decode

June 28, 2022 12:26 pm

In situations where support systems get compromised as well, the impact can be more long-lasting and devastating, expressed psychologist Kamna Chhibber.

Weary of many disasters? UN says worse to come

April 26, 2022 3:35 pm

If current trends continue the world will go from around 400 disasters per year in 2015 to an onslaught of about 560 catastrophes a year by 2030, a United Nations report issued Monday said

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In Pics | Typhoon Shanshan leaves devastating trail across Japan

September 01, 2024 2:34 am

Over 100 people have been injured reportedly, and one person remains missing.

From Cyclone Gulab to La Palma volcano eruption, natural calamities witnessed across the globe this week

September 30, 2021 7:04 pm

Cyclone Gulab made landfall close to Kalingapatanam on Sunday, bringing heavy spells of rain over coastal Andhra Pradesh. Its remnants continue causing showers along its track covering Telangana, Maharashtra and Gujarat.