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Tuesday, November 4, 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

Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.