Mock tsunami drill in Alappad tests crisis response, evacuates 1,005 people successfully, aiming for 'tsunami-ready' ...

In a significant push towards disaster readiness, Rapar Garh village in Gujarat's Kachchh participated in a tsunami mock ...

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) is mapping areas vulnerable to cold lava floods originating from Mount ...

As the alarm rang around 9.40 am on Tuesday Morning, there was a prepared calm in the village of Rapar Garh in Gujarat's Kachchh. Nestled along the Pingleshwar coastline, residents rallied to align ...

Human trafficking syndicates use promises of high-paying jobs overseas to entice young people in Southeast Asia. They have a thousand ways.

KOCHI: Twenty years ago — on December 26, 2004 — deep beneath the Indian Ocean near the island of Sumatra, a 1,300km-long rupture occurred on the faultline betw ...

Gustina Salim Rambe appeared quietly distraught as a court on Indonesia’s main western island of Sumatra sentenced her to ...

Scattered light rain showers are expected. The high will be 90° on this very humid day. Poor air quality (101-150) Primary pollutant O₃ 128 μg/m³ Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere.

FOR a moment there, David Hersya stared at the Malay kettledrum he had bought five years before. He bent down to finger the instrument's torn skin , damaged on the day the group disbanded. David had ...