Last Updated: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 21:38
Catastrophic floods, wildfires, hurricanes-2010 has been an `exceptional` year for weather disasters.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 11:39
More than 236,000 people have been killed worldwide in different natural disasters this year so far, the UN has said on International Day for Disaster Reduction.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 20:05
Philippines has drawn up online maps of its disaster zones.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 19:16
Former Cuban Prez Fidel Castro has said the world needs to learn about Japan nuclear disasters in 1945.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 00:40
Exceptional weather disasters is consistent with scenarios about aspect of climate change, says NOAA chief.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 21, 2010, 23:30
Pakistan`s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday said that New Delhi and Islamabad had a past record of providing assistance to each other when faced with natural disasters.
Last Updated: Friday, August 20, 2010, 11:47
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the increase in natural disasters across the globe in recent years could be linked to climate change.
Last Updated: Monday, August 16, 2010, 14:37
A survey shows 21% Filipinos attribute the natural disasters to God`s wrath.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 21:46
Telling the government to take a cue from the Obama administration in handling disasters, the CPI(M) today asked it to immediately start the process of pinning the responsibility of the Bhopal gas disaster on Dow Chemicals.
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 10:52
The World Bank approved a $255 mn assistance to India to help mitigate the risks by natural disasters.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 12:08
The Bhopal gas tragedy, which left nearly 15,000 dead, is one of the several such man-made disasters which caused untold damage to humanity and the environment.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 23:23
Taking lessons from the verdict on the Bhopal gas tragedy the Law Ministry would work on drafting a "standalone" law to deal with man-made disasters.
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