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'The team will assess the disaster-prone areas in Kerala and suggest further measures for action on disaster risk reduction,' said Disaster Management Department principal secretary Nivedita P Haran...

Urban local bodies (ULBs) from 14 other cities in India and representatives of eight foreign countries would participate in the two-day international event, titled 'Local Government Self Assessment Tool (LG-SAT)'...

Speaking on the occasion of International Day for Disaster Reduction, the chief minister said that the Himachal Pradesh government will launch a mass awareness campaign on disaster risk reduction...

The National Disaster Management Authority is concerned with 'buildings with open ground storey' that may be more prone to earthquakes, especially in high-risk seismic zones and 'has set up a committee of experts to provide guidelines for making them safe'...

Swiss Re has approached the Indian government to propose a host of risk transfer measures that could be taken in advance to deal with the economic consequences of natural disasters in order to reduce the economic burden of natural disasters which are increasing in frequency...

The Times of India reports that Delhi revenue minister AK Walia along with senior officials, reviewed the disaster preparedness at a meeting on Wednesday and decided to name structural engineers who will help secure and retrofit old buildings...

Speaking on the theme 'Engineering Preparedness for Disaster Mitigation', Rajya Sabha member from Goa Shantaram Naik said that a system to forecast natural calamities was the first step to disaster management...

There is a rule that states that buildings in disaster-prone area have to be made suited to the environment where it is situated, but most construction companies fail to follow the disaster mitigation procedures in the construction of buildings in Kerala...