Ten patients died on Sunday at a star hotel converted into a coronavirus treatment centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada as they tried to flee a fire suspected to have been caused by a short cir...

"My people are buried under the soil. Can you give them back, Sir?" asked a wailing 70-year-old woman,looking at rescue workers in the hope of getting some information about the members of h...

A team of 26 personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), stationed at Hooghly’s Arambagh in anticipation of floods, were isolated after two members tested Covid-19 positive on Thur...

Jharkhand hopes to raise its own force to respond to exigencies of all kinds with the state government notifying afresh a State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) only recently, although it is 15 ye...

As many as 21 districts and a population of over 4.6 lakh have been affected in the ongoing flood in Assam with water entering Dibrugarh town and coming threateningly close to entering the capital cit...

Cyclone Nisarga has made landfall near Alibaug on the Maharashtra coast and the 'process' will be completed by about 4pm, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday.The landfall proce...

A team from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Monday drained out water from a Mahestala area, which was waterlogged after Cyclone Amphan had struck the city on May 21.After draining out t...

All 20 units of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) stationed in Odisha have been deployed in the state, while as many units have been pressed into service in West Bengal for relief and rescue...

A gas leak in the dead of night at a chemical plant that was emerging from the Covid-19 lockdown killed at least 11 people and left hundreds in hospitals in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.Terrifying accoun...

A low-pressure belt over coastal Odisha is tipped to keep Sunday wet for Calcutta. The sky will remain overcast till Tuesday and light to moderate rain is expected over the next two days, the Met offi...