A 14-member team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) fished out the body of a 17-year-old boy from the Kharkai river along the RIT police station area in Adityapur on Saturday. The NDRF te...

Ducks are a great source of recreation to the 134 battalion of the CRPF here in Daltonganj. The water fowls serve as a great stress buster to the jawans and officials. Commandant of the 134 battalio...

According to details posted on the website of the 'Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund)', the fund consists "entirely of volunta...

The Mahanadi river, the biggest in Odisha, is swelling by the hour, inundating more and more villages along its course. Hundreds of villages have been marooned as water from the river breached the em...

Holding that financial planning is in the domain of the Centre, the Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to direct transfer of contributions made to the PM CARES Fund to the National Disaster Response Fun...

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...