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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Topic: NDRF

Saving lives in Turkey, with no water or power, in -5 degree — what it takes to be an NDRF rescuer

For the first few days, NDRF teams were deployed in the worst-affected areas of Gaziantep, just 23 km from epicentre. They have now shifted base to Hatay province.

NDRF personnel with specially equipped trained dog squad departs for earthquake-hit Turkey

India has sent the NDRF team to Turkey after earthquakes jolted Turkey and Syria Monday.

Radar & sniffer dog aid search at Manipur landslide site as 14 still missing 6 days later

47 bodies, including those of civilians and Territorial Army personnel, have so far been recovered from the site of last week's landslide in Manipur's Noney district.

18 rescued, 71 feared buried in debris after Manipur landslide. CM announces compensation

According to district officials, of the eight bodies recovered so far, seven belong to Territorial Army personnel. CM N. Biren Singh visits site to take stock of the situation.

‘Never seen floods like this before’ — 134 dead, 21 lakh hit as 22 Assam districts battle deluge

NDRF carrying out relief operations in Silchar, which is now mostly underwater, but many families still in need of essentials. Officials say operations to go on for another few days.

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

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.

IPS officer Sheel Vardhan Singh to head CISF, Atul Karwal appointed new NDRF chief

Singh currently holds the post of Special Director in the Intelligence Bureau and Karwal is the director at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad.

Prepare for worst-case scenario, NDRF chief tells Bengal & Odisha govt as Cyclone Yaas brews

NDRF chief S N Pradhan has urged authorities to adopt an over-preparing approach and carry out evacuation even in the least vulnerable places.

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

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.

Rescue operations in Chamoli to continue till last victim reached, says NDRF commandant

The NDRF commandant also said the muck-clearing exercise at Tapovan tunnel may take months, if not a year.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.