Himachal Pradesh (HP) recorded the second-highest number of deaths in hydro-meteorological disasters in the country this year, with 358 fatalities reported due to rains, landslides, and cloudburst incidents.
Since the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), a non-governmental organisation based in Geneva, started collating data on persons displaced by disasters in 2018, this set of the population has been increasing.
The Baoji-Chengdu Railway, a key railway line in western China, resumed traffic after 25 days of disruption due to flood-triggered geological disasters.
Floods and geological disasters triggered by recent heavy rainfall in east China's Jiangxi Province had impacted over 1.56 million people by Thursday evening, according to statistics revealed by local authorities.
The training camp, divided into three phases, will cater to 25 ADMs each from diverse districts.
North Korea called on party officials to make all-out efforts to protect the people's lives and provide safety from a "frenzy of nature", thereby implementing the country's five-year economic policy plan that was adopted in 2021, Yonhap News Agency quoted Rodong Sinmun, the North's main newspaper, as saying in a report.
The disasters that have laid low two of India’s hill states ~ Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand ~ are attributable as much to the vagaries of nature as they are to the depredations wrought by man.
The Chief Minister has also directed for proper mapping of glaciers through new and advanced technology and conducting a study of the areas more prone to earthquakes.
Principal Secretary Onkar Sharma informed the meeting about the earthquake-prone areas and the state's disaster management plan.
Certain professional groups rarely welcome females. They believe that women cannot meet challenges as men do and can be fiercely territorial. Many qualified and capable individuals are ostracised from organisations or industries or expelled from positions because of this territorial mindset.
