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Sikkim disaster management authority, GSI sign MoU for early warning system for rainfall, landslides
Explaining the basic objective of the initiative, Raju said that...
Govt mulling integrating helpline numbers to improve emergency response
Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) is a Pan-India single...
How Homes are being built, raised to withstand Extreme Weather
“The frequency and severity of the storms are increasing,” said Belcher, who builds houses designed to withstand 140 mile-an-hour winds. “Whether people credit it to climate change or think it’s cyclical, it doesn’t matter if your house is destroyed. Either way, resiliency applies.”
Cyclone Fani Death toll mounts to 43 people stage blockade
While the state government claimed to have restored power and drinking water supplies in urban pockets of Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur and Cuttack districts, people Saturday blocked roads connecting Paradip and Cuttack, and the national highway linking Bhubaneswar with Puri, alleging lack of basic amenities.Similar agitations were seen in parts of the state capital where power continued to remain elusive for the eighth consecutive day.
Project Owl Wi-Fi Network for Natural Disaster Connections Wins IBM-Backed Contest
They have designed tiny electronic nodes inside baseball-sized rubber casings that create a special Wi-Fi network spanning more than 100 square miles that can be used to connect victims and first responders. It’s a simple and relatively cheap concept, but during a natural disaster when cell towers topple, technology fails and entire communities fall into darkness – communication can be the difference between life and death.
SCOR to implement an alternative natural catastrophe reinsurance scheme in France
Paris: SCOR notes the decision of the General Court of the European Union, which confirms the decision of September 26, 2016, by the European Commission concerning the guarantee granted by the French State to the CCR regarding natural catastrophe...
IRDAI asks insurers to expedite “Cyclone Fani’ claims
The regulator wants insurers to report the claims settled for the cyclone related deaths in Odisha and neighbouring states ona daily basis.
Cyclone Fani: PM grants Rs 1,000 cr more for relief work; hails CM Patnaik
“I would like to praise the people of Odisha. Shifting 12 lakh people is not easy. Lives have been saved, that’s more important for me. The central government will also give Rs 2 lakhs to the kin of those who have lost their lives due to Cyclone Fani. Also, Rs 50,000 will be given to those who have got injured,” Modi said.
Cyclone Fani: Death toll rises to 29 in Odisha, CM announces relief package
Announcing a relief package for those affected by the calamity, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said all families in Puri and in those parts of Khurda, which had been “extremely severely affected” in the storm, will get 50 kg of rice, Rs 2,000 in cash and polythene sheets, if covered under the Food Security Act (FSA).
From its formation to landfall, how IMD tracked cyclone ‘Fani’
Data was processed under different weather models by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida. These two institutes have two supercomputers that process data. Twelve hours before the landfall, we kept sending updates on locations to concerned states every half hour using our radars, besides releasing hourly bulletins, IMD’s Director General K J Ramesh. said
How do you save a million people from a cyclone? Odisha has the answer
This is so different from 20 years ago, when a fearsome cyclone blasted into this same area and obliterated villages, killing thousands. Many people were caught flat-footed in their homes. Some of the dead were found miles from where they had lived, dragged away by raging cascades.
Cyclone Fani laeves 12 dead, causes severe disruptions, damages properties and crops in Orissa
Summer crops, orchards and plantations have been devastated in large scale, said government sources. Also, mobile towers at many places were blown away, disrupting telecommunication services. “All telecom services are down in Puri district,” said Special Relief Commissioner Bishnupada Sethi