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 »

CM hails State Police Force on 61st Senior Police Officers’ Conference

Bhubaneswar: The 61st Senior Police Officers’ 3-day Conference concluded on Saturday. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was the chief guest of the event organized at Police Bhavan here. CM Patnaik heaped praises on... 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 »

TN police to have station-level WhatsApp groups, will this not violate laws?

Experts point out that the mandatory creation of these groups is in contravention of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) guidelines on cloud services. The Tamil Nadu Police Department has... 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 »
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Meghalaya Miners Rescue: Navy recovers one body

A month after 15 miners in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills got trapped in a rat-hole mine, one body was detected by Indian Navy Divers on Thursday morning. The body was detected using... Read more »

Even smallest factors matter during rescue operations: NDRF

New Delhi: For National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), small factors matter during the Golden Hours in any rescue operation. In 2018, the disaster rescue force conducted as many as 37 operations in... Read more »