Tag: Disaster

ISLAMABAD: Along with suffering from the insufficient number of personnel deployed in the Counterterrorism Unit of the Islamabad Capital Territory Police, the unit's ability suffers...

Fire substations will be stashed at I-9/4, I-14 and Humak In order to improve the performance of the Emergency and Disaster Management of the...

Emergency, disaster management requires training of personnel, billions of rupees to spruce up its emergency preparedness ISLAMABAD: The Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate of the...

ISLAMABAD: The Gender and Child Cell (GCC) of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Care...

DOSSEYE: Chad, a country already beset by economic and humanitarian crises, faces another looming disaster: climate change. It was ranked as the country most vulnerable...

In her eight-year-long journey in the Hindi film industry so far, Anushka Sharma has tasted success with commercial hits like Rab Ne Bana Di...

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Friday declared a “state of disaster” in many rural areas hit by a severe drought, with 26 percent of...

Federal Minister for Climate Change Mushahid Ullah Khan warned that failing to adapt to rapidly changing weather patterns for countries like Pakistan and mitigating...

An entire family of six that had been returning home after three years living abroad was among the 44 Malaysians killed in the MH17...

Worsening weather and sea conditions on Saturday forced the Philippines to suspend a search for survivors of a ferry disaster that killed at least...

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight escaped a potential disaster on Saturday morning as its pilot managed to safely land the aircraft after a...

Hazara Express escaped disaster after a blast occurred at the main railway track near Bakhshu Jamali in the jurisdiction of Kandhar police station on...

The Punjab Emergency Service’s (PES) Rescue 1122 organised on Sunday the first Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE) under which people will be educated...

Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Director General, Mujahid Sherdil has said that besides rivers monsoon rains have also affected hill torrents and water channels. He...

Japanese and Tokyo Electric Power officials ignored the risks of an atomic accident because they believed in the "myth of nuclear safety", a government...

Police on Friday defused a missile found in H-9 area of Islamabad. According to the police the 5-feet long missile belonged to 1988 Ojhri...

An official said Thursday there was no hope for more than a hundred people still missing a day after a ferry sank off the...