Gurugram Building Collapse: Death Toll Rises as Six Bodies Recovered, Rescue Operations Underway

Gurugram, January 24: A total of six people have lost their lives in a building collapse in Gurugram. All the six bodies have been recovered during rescue operations. Meanwhile, rescue operations are still underway.... Read more »

8th Battalion of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) gets “Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar” for disaster management

New Delhi: The Central government has instituted an annual award titled “Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar”, which is to be announced every year on January 23, on the birth anniversary of... Read more »

Tech helps curb graft in policing

Inclusion of technology in policing to bring in transparency and accountability has brought down corruption in the state police department. The decade-old perception among residents about police high-handedness has changed after certain... Read more »

Internet firm, Shenzhen police join forces to stop suicide

Thirty-five people contemplating suicide have been rescued in China since July in a joint effort by internet giant Tencent and the Shenzhen police to prevent people from carrying out the act. The... Read more »

State failed in disaster management: Prof. Amita Singh

KOCHI: The recent floods in Kerala has exposed the failure of state government in alerting local bodies about the impending disaster, said Amita Singh, professor and chairperson of Special Centre for Disaster... Read more »

BBMP to install 460 CCTV cams along Bengaluru roads

To ensure security and safety and to keep an eye on garbage blackspots, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has proposed to install around 460 CCTV cameras along 2,000 km of arterial... Read more »

Illegal emigration: surveillance stepped up

Surveillance on the premises of Beypore Port has been strengthened against the backdrop of  reports of illegal emigration attempts from Munambam in Kochi. The coastal police have given new directives to the... Read more »

Was The Facebook ’10 Year Challenge’ A Way To Mine Data For Facial Recognition AI?

Last week a new Facebook challenge went viral asking users to post a photo from 10 years ago and one from today captioning “how did aging effect you?” Now being called the “10-Year... Read more »

Khardung La avalanche: One civilian dead, 9 trapped in Ladakh, rescue operations underway

Ladakh avalanche: At least one civilian was killed and nine others are still trapped under snow after an avalanche occurred in Khardung La of Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir, news agency ANI... Read more »

Israel’s biggest relief and rescue team lauds NDRF’s efforts to trace missing Meghalaya miners

Israel’s biggest relief and rescue team, United Hatzalah, has praised the relief and rescue operations underway to trace and rescue the miners stranded in Meghalaya. Lauding the National Disaster Response Force, United Hatzalah said... Read more »