Last Updated: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:20
India ranks second in the world for natural disasters after China, a top UN official has said underlining that unplanned urbanisation and failure to address the issue of climate change pose a grave threat worldwide.
Last Updated: Friday, January 14, 2011, 10:24
Nearly 500 people have dead from mudslides in Brazil facing its worst natural disaster.
Last Updated: Friday, October 8, 2010, 17:27
Harish Rawat said that since 252 villages have become unsafe the state government should search the forest land to settle the people.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 00:44
UN warned that an estimated 72,000 children were at "high risk of death" due to malnutrition.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 8, 2010, 23:38
People struggled to cope with the aftermath of cloudburst in Leh, and heavy rains and subsequent flooding in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.
Last Updated: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 20:23
Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Sunday complimented the government officials in tackling the cyclonic storm `Laila`.
Last Updated: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 22:01
In a new study, Northeastern earth and environmental sciences professor Jennifer Cole has discussed what causes earthquakes and how one natural disaster can lead to another.
Last Updated: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 18:01
You can call it straight from a science fiction -- a "cybug" that can access those areas where people can`t go, for example, in the aftermath of a quake.
Last Updated: Monday, October 5, 2009, 11:41
Students carrying mud-stained books returned to some schools on Monday for the first time since deadly floods submerged the Philippine capital, but survivors lingered in hallways with nowhere else to go.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 11:13
A new typhoon gathered strength on Thursday off the Philippines while nearly 700,000 people still sought help in badly stretched relief centres from massive flooding caused by Ketsana.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 20:09
The death toll in the disaster at a Russian hydroelectric power plant rose to 72 today as searchers pulled out another body, news agencies reported, citing investigators.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 15:38
Powerful earthquakes that have jolted Asia recently do not presage a disaster, although it is only a matter of time before the next catastrophe befalls the quake-prone region, seismologists say.
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