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Soon, if all goes according to plan, at least some of Delhi neighbourhoods will be 'mapped', their disaster preparedness gauged and their residents sensitised, reports Times of India. 'During disasters you also encounter the politics of the area and efforts at disaster management will fail if the politics isn't appropriately handled,' said Anita Singh of DRP-JNU...

The Visakhapatnam declaration is an action agenda drawn from international framework for disaster risk reduction and enabling the implementation at local levels, said a release from the convenor of the Second World on Disaster Management. The priorities of the Visakhapatnam declaration to set up a State Disaster Management Authority and District Disaster Management Authorities...

'Any extreme weather event hits the poor the hardest as its effect is multiplied by their vulnerability,' says R S Deshpande, national fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research, according to the Times of India. 'The poor can neither afford protective systems like homes with the right roofs, clothing to shield them,'...

With multiple hazards facing Bihar state, the state disaster management department (DMD) is seeking to chalk out a road map for disaster risk reduction for the next 15 years. "Almost all countries face some kind of disaster and are working towards risk recognition, awareness, preparedness and mitigation strategies," said state DMD principal secretary Vyasji...

Nepal's devastating earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming. Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social scientists from around the world came to Kathmandu, Nepal, to figure out how to get this poor, congested, overdeveloped, shoddily built area to prepare better for the big one, reports the Times on India...

The official team from India was led by Home minister Rajnath Singh who had on Tuesday announced India was taking a lead role in the Asia Pacific to make DRR a success in the region. India also announced it would be hosting the next Asian Ministerial Conference in 2016...

India is working closely with China and other countries of the Asia-Pacific region in setting the agenda for the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR) that will replace the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) at the UN's conference on disaster risk reduction (DRR) starting next week in Sendai, Japan, reports the Times of India...

'During natural calamities the usual modes of communication will not work due to disruption in communication lines or the systems might be destroyed in the calamity. The government decided to install high frequency radio-based communication for enforcing an effective EWS'...