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Centre and NDMA abdicated responsibility on loan waiver for Wayanad disaster victims, says Kerala HC
"We direct the Union government/NDMA to deliberate on whether the...
Union govt, NDMA can ask banks to waive loans of Wayanad landslides victims: Kerala HC
A bench of Justices A K Jayasankaran Nambiar and Easwaran S said it...
Earthquake of magnitude 3.1 jolts Manipur’s Churachandpur
Earlier in the day, an earthquake of magnitude 3.6 jolted Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya at 1 am, according to the National Center for Seismology (NSC) New Delhi: An earthquake of magnitude 3.1 jolted Manipur's Churachandpur on Sunday evening. According to the National...
Nepal earthquake kills at least 128, toll could rise, officials say
Officials feared the death toll in Friday's quake could rise as they had not been able to establish contact in the hilly area near the epicentre, some 500 km (300 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu, where tremors were also felt. The district has a population of...
Odisha to spend Rs 2000 crores for disaster resilient infrastructure: CM Naveen Patnaik
Moreover, automated weather and rain gauge stations will be set up in every panchayat and the World Bank will provide financial assistance for 3,000 panchayats in this regard, the Chief Secretary said Bhubaneswar: Odisha to spend Rs 2000 Crores for disaster resilient...
Govt wants adoption of Property/Parametric covers to mitigate financial losses due to natural catastrophes
Vivek Joshi, Secretary, Department of Financial Services (DFS), for the first time on Wednesday met General Insurance Council and a few CEOs of private sector general insurance companies in New Delhi, to discuss several critical issues having implications for the...
Cat bond market is defying the global selloff with record returns
Big reinsurers like Swiss Re and Munich Re, as well as some real-economy companies, have increasingly looked to cat bonds as they try to protect themselves from once-in-a-lifetime disasters. In July, Blackstone Inc. turned to cat bonds to shield property assets from...
India to start monitoring high-risk glacial lakes next year
There are 56 at-risk glacial lakes in India and the urgency to monitor them was stepped up after Lhonak Lake in the eastern Himalayas burst its banks two weeks ago and caused widespread damage in Sikkim, a small mountainous state wedged between China, Nepal and Bhutan...
3.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Faridabad near Delhi
Experts say the impact of a large-scale earthquake can be reduced if people and institutions strictly comply with the bylaws and codes to build resilient structures.They say the resonant frequency of a building can play a critical role in determining the level of...
Hydropower projects fuelling disasters in Himalayas: Experts
Gyatso Lepcha from Affected Citizens of Teesta (ACT), a local advocacy group, said, “The 1,200 MW Teesta III was completely washed away. This dam was built only 30 km away from Lhonak Lake. The state government is blaming the previous government for substandard...
Early warning system for India’s flooded glacial lake was delayed by a year
In recent years, glacial flood early warning systems have been deployed in China, Nepal, Pakistan and Bhutan as climate change has raised the risks of flooding. The Lhonak Lake system is a pilot project being executed with the help of Swiss agencies, with India’s...
Sundarbans records highest drowning mortality rate among children across globe: Report
In the Indian part, Sundarbans is spread over 100 islands and has around 40 lakh inhabitants. Of the total population, around 15.9 per cent are children aged between one and nine and has a mortality rate of 38.8 per lakh population among children aged between five and...