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A top official at India’s National Disaster Management Authority has been appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as his special representative for disaster risk reduction.Kamal Kishore (55) has been appointed as assistant secretary-general and special representative of the secretary-general for disaster risk reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster ...

#Pakistan News An explosion occurred in a coal mine in Harnai city in Pakistan's Balochistan province. After the explosion, a part of the mine collapsed and 20 miners were trapped.Rescue teams were dispatched to the area. During the work carried out, the dead bodies of 12 miners were found, ...

Bomb Found Inside Awam Express Train At Cantonment Railway Station In Karachi | IANS | Twitter Karachi, December 23: A bag containing an improvised explosive device (IED) was recovered by the police from a train at the Cantonment Railway Station in Karachi, media reports said on Saturday. Police said ...

#Pakistan News Another boat carrying irregular immigrants sank in the waters in Libya. The boat with approximately 86 immigrants, who set out with the hope of migrating to countries with better conditions, capsized due to giant waves after leaving the Libyan city of Zuwara. In the statement made by ...

Last Updated: December 12, 2023, 15:07 ISTOne chapter in the book - The Tears of Morbi 1979 - notes PM Modi's work. In the aftermath of the Morbi dam burst, Modi personally managed relief work for fifty consecutive days. In May, a report from the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring ...

DEHRADUN/UTTARKASHI: Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari reached Silkyara on Sunday along with Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to take stock of the efforts to rescue 41 workers trapped inside the tunnel being built under the Char Dham all-weather project, that his ministry is helming. ...

National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Tuesday asked the government to rethink a project for motorable roads up to the Amarnath cave shrine in Kashmir. Meanwhile, the BJP has welcomed the move.“In the green belts of Gulmarg, Sonamarg and Pahalgam, no one is allowed to even repair ...

Humanity is on course to transgress multiple global “tipping points” that could lead to irreversible instability or the complete collapse of ecological and institutional systems, a United Nations report warned Wednesday.The third annual Interconnected Disaster Risks report from the U.N. University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn, ...

The Russian State Duma has unanimously resolved to rescind Russia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The bill will now be sent to the upper chamber and then to President Vladimir Putin, who is expected to sign it into law.  Russian lawmakers and media figures have ...

#Pakistan News The Ministry of Defense has initiated relief efforts in response to the devastating earthquake that struck Afghanistan, causing significant loss of life and widespread destruction. An aid plane, organized by the ministry, departed from Ankara on Monday, carrying essential survival materials and equipment needed to support the ...