The mock drill across Uttarakhand’s 13 districts comes 13 years after the Kedarnath disaster. This raises a question on what the state has learnt from the worst natural calamity ...

Representatives of Togo’s National Civil Protection Agency conducted a major training preparation meeting with ...

Students from across Oregon participated in a program to get hands-on training for disaster relief and workforce experience ...

During a high-level meeting chaired by Revenue and Disaster Management Department Additional Chief Secretary Arabinda Kumar Padhee a decision was taken for implementation of a cashless transaction ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The arrival of smart home technology in the guise of In the face of calamities disasters, disaster management has become a foundation for defending communities. Calamities of this sort are becoming ...

In brief: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “strategic disaster” and said Moscow would not achieve its original war aims. His remarks came as Ukrainian strikes ...

Abstract: Building energy management usually involves a number of objectives, such as investment costs, thermal comfort, system resilience, battery life, and many others. However, most existing ...

Earlier this year, researchers at King’s College London gave three commercial AI models—GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash—a tabletop exercise typically used to train human military ...

Two decades after a controversial decision to put George Wright and Franklin Park under control of the parks and recreation department, the results speak for themselves. About 25 years ago, a golfer ...

A worker in Thailand clears a road after a major flood. Disasters can threaten the infrastrucutre, investment climate, and human capital that jobs depend on. Photo credit: Adobe Stock At the World ...