The Supreme Court on Monday remarked that let there not be a contest between Centre and state governments when it was hearing Karnataka state plea seeking financial assistance for drought relief.
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.
In a tragic incident, a 4-year-old child died and at least two others were missing after a country-made boat carrying 15 people capsized in the Brahmaputra River in Assam's South Salmara Mankachar district due heavy storm, an official said on Monday.
In a significant reorganisation within India's security apparatus, the Centre has announced pivotal appointments in key agencies, giving charge of the new Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to distinguished IPS officer Sadanand Vasant Date, his batchmate Rajeev Ku
Former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai urged the Siddaramiah-led Congress government to disclose details of the NDRF funds received during the UPA and NDA regimes.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that the state government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to immediately release grants under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) to the state, which is witnessing drought-like condit
Delhi Police on Monday filed an FIR into the death of a man, who fell into a borewell at a sewage treatment plant of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in the Keshopur area of the national capital.
India and Switzerland will be collaborating in the area of urban search and rescue, under which the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will mentor the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) battalion for its international classification.
Delhi police have registered a case of culpable homicide against the owner of a paint factory in Delhi's Alipur where 11 people were killed in a fire incident on Thursday evening.