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Friday, October 10, 2025
TopicDisaster management

Topic: Disaster management

At annual meet of Disaster Response Force, pat on the back from Amit Shah & roadmap for future

Praveen Jain -
Several top officers were present at NDRF's 'Annual Conference on Capacity Building for Disaster Response', including BSF's Pankaj Kumar Singh & NSG's M.A. Ganapathy.

3 killed, 1 missing after cloudburst hits Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi

PTI -
Police and State Disaster Response Fund personnel immediately launched rescue operations and succeeded in rescuing most of the people trapped in slush after the incident Sunday night.

Army, CAPFs, ITBP—all reported on Covid duty. Where is NDRF, India’s disaster response force?

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The authorities need to understand that disaster does not mean just a building collapse, cloud burst or flood. The NDRF needs to move beyond this.

Faizan Mustafa on Article 370 petitions, Kaushik Basu on anti-corruption petitions

Achyut Mishra -
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There’s a big change coming to how India uses funds after cyclones, earthquakes, floods

Remya Nair -
15th finance commission is exploring ways to ensure funds are available to states not just for relief, but also for rehabilitation, mitigation & capacity-building.

Centre releases Rs 1,086 cr to 4 states as advance funds for cyclone Fani

PTI -
The Centre released the funds after the meteorological dept warned cyclone Fani would turn into an extremely severe cyclonic storm by Tuesday.

Landslide-prone Sikkim gets its own early warning system

Sandhya Ramesh -
Scientists from Amrita university set up system in Gangtok, the second such model after successful installation of one in Kerala’s Munnar.

Had it not been for its IAS officers, Kerala’s flood damage would have been worse

Ashish Joshi -
Kerala IAS officers had designed a system that flood-prone states UP and Bihar still lack

In Kerala flood war room, clockwork efficiency is the order of the day

Rohini Swamy -
Officials at the state’s disaster management cell tackle the crisis with a calmness and efficiency that belies the severity of the task.

Kerala has raised the bar, shamed the Indian conscience on disaster relief

Shivam Vij -
The southern state expects more from India than India does from itself.
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India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

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How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Shekhar Gupta -
Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.

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