The President’s statement that the current Disaster Management Act is flawed may have been a feint to divert attention away ...

NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday constituted the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) under the recently amended Disaster Management Act to address situations involving major disasters ...

The CM informed that the Disaster Management Act has been invoked in response to the situation, while blaming climate change for the disaster. As heavy rains lash Himachal Pradesh, the entire state ...

The National People’s Power (NPP) Government assumed office under exceptionally difficult circumstances. It inherited an economy that had been driven to collapse by the policies and mismanagement of ...

Cyclone Ditwah exposed Sri Lanka’s catastrophic lack of preparedness. After the first red alerts predicting very heavy rainfall were issued on the night of November 25, Sri Lankan President Anura ...

The National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) has rejected calls from advocacy group Women For Change (WFC) to have gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) declared a national disaster, saying the ...

The Lok Sabha passed the National Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill, 2024, on Thursday which aims to improve the country's disaster management system. The Bill, which amends the Disaster Management ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (August 29, 2025) nominated two people as new members of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and renominated three existing members for three years ...

Cyclone Ditwah is described as one of the worst tragedies that occurred in Sri Lanka in recent times. It is believed that the ...

The 14th session of the National Council for Disaster Management was held yesterday (6) at the Presidential Secretariat under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Significantly, this ...

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