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Friday, August 8, 2025
TopicDisaster management

Topic: Disaster management

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.

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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.

Devastating Kerala floods: National indifference or political partisanship?

ThePrint Team -
Heavy rain hit Kerala on 8 August leading to floods that have affected 443 villages. By Friday, the death toll rose to 177. The Centre...
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Opinion

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

Shishir Priyadarshi -
India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

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Economy

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Defence

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

National Interest

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

Shekhar Gupta -
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.

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