Disaster Management  

Uttarakhand's Char Dham Yatra faces a temporary halt due to heavy rainfall alerts, ensuring pilgrim safety amid potential weather-related risks.

Witness the impact of heavy rains in Pune, where flooding ensues, causing traffic congestion and prompting the rescue of a stranded woman.

Stay informed about the latest heavy rainfall alerts and weather updates in Maharashtra, including Mumbai, Konkan, and Pune, issued by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).

Indian cities like Chennai, Mumbai, and Visakhapatnam face the looming threat of submersion by 2100 due to climate change. Urgent action is required to safeguard these cultural, economic, and historical hubs from the impending disaster

Abhas Jha, an Indian economist, has been appointed by the World Bank to a key position on climate change and disaster management in South Asia, the global lender said.
 

Villages in Andhra Pradesh faced floods. Scores evacuated after 24 villages were inundated by floods. According to the State Disaster Management Authority, a total of 4,352 houses marooned in Krishna, Guntur districts

The disaster management department has put the total number of people hit by floods in Bihar at 88.46 lakh in 1,269 panchayats of the 13 districts

As heavy rains lashed Mumbai, the first tragic incident happened in Thane, the other one occurred in Ambarnath, officials of the district disaster management cell said

"Some may call it dynasty or whatever, it is the way the Congress has evolved over the years. Somehow it has been dependent on the pan-India appeal of the Gandhi family," the former vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, Marri Shashidhar Reddy said.

The officials at the Disaster Management Control Room said 22 people died in Aurangabad, 20 in Gaya and two in Nawada districts of Bihar due to heatwave.

This satellite RISAT-2B would enhance the country's surveillance capabilities along with application in fields such as surveillance, agriculture, forestry and disaster management

 

PM Modi intends to call officials from all coastal states for a meeting in the coming few months to share best practices in disaster management . A 30-year-old Sri Lankan national was arrested in Kerala for not possessing valid travel documents. The arrest assumes significance in the wake of recent blasts that rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds.

Chairing a review meet over cyclone Fani in Bhubaneshwar on Monday, attended also by Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, the PM said, “Maybe we should do it in Bhubaneswar. Others can learn so much from the work done by the Centre and the state here.”
 

Read on to know about the intensity of cyclone, steps taken and how it was named

The State Disaster Management Authority in Kerala has issued a yellow alert in Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Ernakulam, Thrissur and Idukki