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Natural disasters like floods emerge as top reason for buying home insurance in India: Survey
The survey highlighted that 41 per cent of the respondents in last...
Deadly Flash Floods in Asia and U.S: Urgent need for early warnings
“Flash floods are not new, but their frequency and intensity are...
Issuance of cat bonds set to hit a record this year
Catastrophe bonds are generally issued by insurers looking to pass a chunk of their risk over to capital markets. Issuance has picked up lately, with factors including climate change, population density and inflation adding to the potential losses that insurers face....
India’s disaster management moving forward with a ‘Zero Casualty Approach, says Home minister Shah
Amit Shah,Union Home Minister Shah also reviewed the preparations to deal with Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) New Delhi: Emphasizing on optimum use of satellite imagery provided by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) by various agencies for flood and...
Climate Change: The Era of Super-Wild Weather Is Already Here
Erich Fischer, a climate scientist at ETH Zurich, has been trying to do for heat something similar to what US researchers want to do for precipitation. His work in recent years has helped demonstrate that temperature records around the world are falling by greater and...
Bengal train mishap again brings ‘Kavach’ safety system under spotlight
Senior Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) official said, “Kavach has not been installed yet in the section where the accident occurred. However, this is part of the High-Density Network (HDN) and Highly Used Network (HUN) routes identified for the implementation of...
13 people killed and 30 injured as Sealdah-bound Kanchanjungha Express collides with a goods train
"Unfortunate accident in NFR zone. Rescue operations going on at war footing. Railways, NDRF and SDRF are working in close coordination. Injured are being shifted to the hospital. Senior officials have reached site," posted Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on X...
IRDAI asks insurers to fast track cyclone Remal claims
Insurers have been advised to settle claim payments/on account payments at the earliest and also encourage policyholders to use electronic communication wherever possible for correspondence Hyderabad: As the cyclone Remal have caused widespread loss of lives, property...
Provide compensation to families of those killed in heatwave: Rajasthan HC to govt
The court said there was a need to declare heatwaves and cold waves "national calamities" and looking at the fact that a large number of people have lost their lives due to extreme heatwaves and heatstrokes during summers and chilling cold during winters, it was high...
Remal weakens into cyclonic storm, expected to move northeastwards: IMD
Scenes of widespread devastation were evident across West Bengal's coastal areas, with extensive damage to infrastructure and property, a day after Cyclone Remal tore through the coasts of Bangladesh and West Bengal with winds reaching speeds of 135 km per hour New...
Cyclone Remal wreaks havoc in West Bengal, Bangladesh after making landfall; 1 killed
Arup Biswas, the minister for power in West Bengal government, said the power infrastructure was heavily battered. Reports of at least 356 uprooted electricity poles and damage to scores of transformers were received during the first hour of the landfall process More...
India and Bangladesh brace for year’s first cyclone
According to the Indian Meteorological department, 'Remal' has intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and is poised to make landfall between Bangladesh and the adjoining West Bengal coasts by midnight on Sunday, with sustained wind speeds ranging from 110-120 km per...