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India News
23 Jawans have gone missing in the Sikkim Flash Floods: How scientists had long predicted the catastrophe more than a decade ago!
On October 4th, Sikkim, one of the most beautiful states of India enveloped by the mighty Himalayas, got deluged by a cataclysmic cloud burst. The calamity has
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India News
Floods in Bengaluru: Is there a solution as yet?
Bengaluru rains had hogged all attention for the way they submerged India's silicon valley.
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India News
Amarnath Yatra: 13 people dead, over 40 missing due to flash floods
According to local police officials, teams from the J&K Police, NDRF, and SDRF are vigorously searching the location for the missing persons
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India News
In Pictures: J&K witnesses landslides, flash floods due to incessant rains
In view of the current scenario, authorities ordered the closure of all schools in as many as eight districts
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Lifestyle
Global warming could invite catastrophe; Nations need to brace for hot days, flash floods and raging storms
Rising temperatures are ushering in major catastrophe to weather conditions, and life on earth
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India News
Central War Room established to coordinate amid Maharashtra Floods
CM Uddhav Thackeray visited flood-affected Chiplun today to assess the extent of damage and ongoing relief operation amid Maharashtra floods. Pune, Maharashtra,
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Science & Nature
Climate change increases extreme rainfall, the chance of floods: Experts
Climate change influences extreme rainfall and how that combines with other factors to increase the chance of floods in many places Climate experts at the Newca
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World News
Hanoi, Vietnam floods: 55 dead, 7 missing due to heavy downpour
Floods and other natural disasters triggered by heavy downpours have killed 55 people and left seven others missing in central Vietnam over the past 10 days
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World News
Record-breaking Rains Hit Dubai, shattering 75-year-old records
Dubai (UAE) recently encountered an unprecedented weather phenomenon, as the nation experienced its heaviest rainfall in 75 years. The downpour, which commenced
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Press Releases
Two-day All India Secretaries’ Conference on ‘Water Vision @ 2047- Way Ahead’ concluded
The two-day ‘All India Secretaries' Conference on Water Vision @ 2047 - Way Ahead’ concluded at Mahabalipuram, Chennai (Tamil Nadu) yesterday with the key objec
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Press Releases
India gained global stature under PM Modi’s leadership: Shri Bhupender Yadav
Shri Bhupender Yadav today said India has gained a global stature under Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s leadership and the world recognises its lead
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Press Releases
India’s River Cities Alliance Goes Global as NMCG forges alliance with MRCTI, USA at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai
The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) on behalf of River Cities Alliance (RCA), has signed a Memorandum of Common Purpose (MoCP) with the Mississippi Rive
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Press Releases
President of India confers National Geoscience Awards- 2022
The President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu has conferred the prestigious National Geoscience Awards- 2022 (NGA) of the Ministry of Mines in a glittering functio
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National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) commences the 60th CBP for civil servants of Bangladesh; So far, 2,145 officers from Bangladesh imparted training by NCGG
The 2-week Capacity Building Programme (CBP) for civil servants of Bangladesh (60th batch) was inaugurated at the NCGG campus, Mussoorie
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2nd Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRRWG) of G 20 to be held in Mumbai from May 23-25, 2023
Mumbai is known to face heavy rains and water logging during monsoons. 26th July 2005 is etched in everyone’s mind when the Mumbai Metropolitan Region witnessed
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National Mission For Clean Ganga (NMCG) Organizes River-Cities Alliance Global Seminar
National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) in association with the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) organized the ‘River-Cities Alliance (RCA) Global Sem
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World News
Preparedness to tackle disasters inadequate, warns International Science Council
The increasing number of natural disasters is dragging many achievements in disaster mitigation.
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Press Releases
Shri Bhupender Yadav launches ‘Save Wetlands Campaign’ as a “whole of society” approach for wetlands conservation
Shri Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change launched the ‘Save Wetlands Campaign’ in the presence of the Chief Minister of G
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Press Releases
Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2023
For the year 2023, Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) and Lunglei Fire Station (LFS), Mizoram, both in the Institutional category, have been sel
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Finance
3 TN cities to deploy $125-mn ADB loan for improving urban services
India and ADB inked a deal for a loan of $125-mn loan
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