A Ukrainian airplane carrying 180 passengers and crew crashed on Wednesday near an airport in Tehran, Iranian state TV reported. There was no immediate word on casualties. The plane had taken off... Read more »
At least nine people were killed and 10 injured when a fire broke out at a clothes godown in Delhi’s Kirari area early on Monday. According to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS), the godown was on... Read more »
The Kavach weighs 9.2 kg, a half kilogram less than the weight for a bullet-proof jacket prescribed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the release said. Bhabha Kavach, billed as... Read more »
At least 40 people were killed when a Russian airliner burst into flames while making an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday evening, officials said. The Sukhoi SSJ100 operated by national airline... Read more »
Cyclone Fani is expected to make landfall in coastal areas of Odisha on May 3. The cyclonic storm has intensified into an “extreme severe cyclonic”. An IMD bulletin released at 8.50 am... Read more »
Nine medium intensity earthquakes, with a magnitude ranging from 4.7 to 5.2, hit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Monday morning, all in a span of two hours, according to the National Centre... Read more »
Kathmandu: At least 25 people were killed and 400 others injured as a massive rainstorm hit several villages in southern Nepal, officials said Monday. The storm hit many villages in Bara and... Read more »
NEW DELHI: Nearly 500 people were treated at a medical camp in Mozambique under the Indian Navy’s ‘Operation Sahayta’ to provide relief to the cyclone-hit African nation. After Cyclone ‘Idai’ hit Mozambique last week, the... Read more »
The two-day International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (IWDRI) successfully concluded here today. Experts from 33 countries representing a wide variety of development and disaster risk contexts, multilateral development banks, the United... Read more »
At least 37 people have been rescued from the site where an under-construction building collapsed at Dharwad’s Kumareshwar Nagar on Tuesday evening. The rescue operation is still underway as more people are... Read more »