A British national has been rescued safely by the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), McLeodganj police and local trekkers from the Dhauladhar mountains in the Kangra valley of Himachal Pradesh on Saturday.
After a 20-hour long operation, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams successfully rescued a one and a half-year-old child on Thursday who had fallen into an open borewell in Lachyan village in Indi taluk, Vijayapura district.
Mohamed Obaid Alqataam Alzaabi, UAE Ambassador to the Philippines, said, "Dispatching food supplies is part of the UAE's commitment to provide essential relief in times of crisis, particularly natural disasters that result in severe food shortages, and require intervention to support affecte
After a powerful 7.4 earthquake rocked Huwalien City on Wednesday, claiming four lives, leaving at least 57 injured and rattling scores of buildings, the local authorities swung into rescue operations in the affected areas, Focus Taiwan reported.
Meanwhile, a tsunami warning issued for Miyakojima and Okinawa islands in Japan following a powerful earthquake in Taiwan has been downgraded from a warning to an advisory, CNN reported citing Japan's Meteorological Agency.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose assured that things were coming under control after four people were killed in a devastating storm that struck Jalpaiguri on Sunday.
"Two fire tenders also reached the spot. BSES Lineman and 3 people from the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) were also present at the spot. All the agencies tried their best to control the situation. The fire had erupted on the third floor of the house and the lanes were very narro
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that seven people have died and nearly 400 families have been affected by the heavy rains and floods across Afghanistan, as reported by TOLO News.