Agartala: With cyclone Mahasen likely to hit Tripura on Thursday, the state may witness heavy rains and a gale of 50-60 Kmph, the met office said. "There is likely to be heavy rain in the state in the next two days with wind blowing in 50 to 60 Km speed per hour," Met Director Dilip Saha said.
"The effects of the cyclone might slightly be felt in southern and eastern part of the state from tonight. We have not find anything to sound an alert," Saha said. The state disaster management department, however, alerted people of Kanchanpur and Gandaceherra subdivisions of northern and eastern part of the state and Amarpur and Sabroom subdivisions of Southern Tripura about the cyclone, official sources said.
The cyclone had hit Bangladesh earlier in the day and is likely to move northeasterly further and may cross Chittagong-Cox's Bazar coast during the day. The Sabroom border in southern Tripura is located about 75 Km from the Bay of Bengal in Chittagong division of the neighbouring country.
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04:37 PM, May 16, 2013
A mock earthquake drill in Gurgaon failed on Thursday because of non-cooperation of other agencies, including an expressway contractor, volunteers have said, and added that the equipments did not work and a hospital failed to provide stretchers for dummy victims. ...
11:45 PM, Feb 07, 2013
A mock earthquake rescue drill will be held in Gurgaon, including on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, on Thursday and will affect traffic, an official said on Wednesday. The mock drill will affect the flow of traffic on Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, causing long jams for a few hours, the official said on the condition of anonymity. ...
09:07 AM, Feb 07, 2013
Authorities on Sunday issued an avalanche warning for the higher reaches of the Kashmir Valley, advising them to move about with utmost caution. "Medium danger avalanche warning is issued for people living in Keran, Tangdhar, Machil, Chowkibal, Gurez, Bannihal, Uri and Gulmarg areas," Aamir Ali, head of disaster management in the valley, said. ...
12:00 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Hyderabad: Work pertaining to the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) in Andhra Pradesh will commence by December last week and the tender process is expected to be completed by last week of September. Andhra Pradesh and Orissa are the two states that have been chosen for the first phase of the World Bankassisted programme, which is a part of the national disaster management. In the state, the project will...
02:31 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Srinagar: A flood alert was sounded in the city on Monday after the water level in the Jhelum River rose sharply following incessant rains. The Jhelum is flowing above 16 feet in Ram Munshi Bagh area prompting the flood alert, officials in the disaster management cell said. Incessant rains have been lashing Kashmir since Saturday night. The rainfall has triggered concern among farmers as continued downpour can cause damage to...
09:46 AM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Disaster Management Authority will on Saturday conduct mock drills at 11 Delhi Metro stations to check if the staff are ready to deal with earthquakes, bomb blasts and terror attacks. The timing of the drill has, however, not been disclosed, said DDMA. "How would we fathom the preparedness if the timing is disclosed," an official said. The drill will be conducted at Central Secretariat, Shahdara, Pitampura,...
01:20 AM, Jul 28, 2012
New Delhi: Body of fifteen-year-old Roshan Parasi, who fell into a 70-feet well on Sunday, was pulled out after 11 hours by the rescuers. The body has been sent to the Kona Block hospital in Howrah. The rescue efforts were hampered by the rain and wind. West Bengal Disaster Management and Fire Services minister Javed Khan, who supervised the operations, said some local well diggers along with disaster management and...
02:43 AM, Jun 25, 2012
Howrah: In a tragic incident that bore striking resemblance to the Gurgaon tragedy wherein a 4-year-old girl died after falling into a 70-feet borewell, a teenager in Howrah, West Bengal, fell into a well of around the same depth on Sunday afternoon. Fifteen-year-old Roshan Parasi fell into the well at around 3.30 pm. The rescue operations are on, albeit rain and wind are said to be hampering the efforts. A...
09:30 PM, Jun 24, 2012
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05:40 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Kathmandu: Army Chief Gen VK Singh on Thursday met Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav and wished peace and prosperity for his country. Singh, who is in Nepal to attend the three-day Regional Seminar on Natural Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, called on President Yadav at the Rastrapati Bhawan in the capital. Indian Ambassador to Nepal Jayant Prasad was also present at the meeting. Singh during the brief meeting wished "for...
09:51 AM, Apr 05, 2012
The exercise is being carried out by the National Disaster Management Authority at more than 300 locations. ...
12:46 PM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: The ramshackle neighbourhoods of northeast Delhi are home to 2.2 million people packed along narrow alleys. Buildings are made from a single layer of brick. Extra floors are added to dilapidated buildings not meant to handle their weight. Tangles of electrical cables hang precariously everywhere. If a major earthquake were to strike India's seismically vulnerable capital, these neighbourhoods - India's most crowded - would collapse into an apocalyptic...
11:48 AM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi will witness one of the biggest coordinated mockdrills on Wednesday through which preparedness of various agencies will be checked by creating simulated situations across the city involving schools, colleges, metro network, malls, markets, hospitals and road transport. A number of metro stations will be closed for up to half-an-hour and road traffic will be converted in many areas of Central, South and North Delhi as part of...
07:50 AM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: Amid concerns over the Koodankulam nuclear power project, the National Disaster Management Authority has said safety measures at all atomic plants in the country were in place but admitted earthquakes at these sites cannot be completely ruled out. "Earthquake is a matter of great concern to us, especially in the six nuclear states of the country. The list of seismically vulnerable places is being constantly revised. "You cannot...
10:40 AM, Nov 13, 2011
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has made arrangements for airlifting 68 tourists from the state who are stranded at Lachung, one of the worst quake-hit areas of Sikkim. West Bengal Disaster Management secretary Indevar Pandey told on Tuesday that helicopters would be engaged to bring the stranded tourists to Siliguri in West Bengal on Wednesday. He said a decision had also been taken to constitute block-level technical committees comprising engineers...
08:45 PM, Sep 20, 2011
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Vice Chancellor Shashidhar Reddy said they were monitoring the earthquake situation in Sikkim. ...
09:24 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Melbourne: As Queensland government grapples with the billion dollar bill for recovery from recent natural disasters, the state has been put on alert that yet another major cyclone may be on the way. The category 1 tropical cyclone Dianne was about 385 km northwest of Exmouth early on Thursday and was expected to take a more southerly track during the day. The Bureau of Meteorology said if Dianne moves closer...
03:41 PM, Feb 17, 2011
Colombo: Over one million people have been displaced by flooding in north-central and north-eastern Sri Lanka, officials said on Sunday, as monsoon rains fell for the sixth consecutive day. The floods were widespread and were affecting roads, agricultural land and town centres, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said. According to officials based in the area, the death toll has reached more than 13. But the DMC said on Sunday it...
07:01 PM, Feb 06, 2011
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