National Disaster Operations Centre

Ten fresh teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are being rushed to West Bengal in order to speed up the relief and rescue operations post cyclone "Amphan", officials said on Saturday.

Cyclone Vayu will not hit Gujarat as it changed its trajectory overnight and moved further into the sea, the weather department said. However, coastal areas in the state continue to be on high alert as strong winds and rough seas are expected for the next 24 to 48 hours. Over three lakh people were evacuated from coastal district and the union terr...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending the Army and teams of the National Disaster Response Force to flood-hit parts of the state for relief operations - barely hours after the chief minister sought help from the centre

Questions are now being raised in Jammu and Kashmir on whether the Centre had violated procedures by directly debiting Rs 500 crore for the relief and rescue operations from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF).

At least 147 students were massacred when Somalia's Shebab Islamist group attacked a Kenyan university on Thursday, the national disaster operations centre said after the deadliest attack in the country since US embassy bombings in 1998.

At least four people were killed and more than 40 wounded today when masked gunmen stormed a college in a Kenyan town near the border with Somalia, trapping students inside and exchanging gunfire with security forces over several hours.

At least two people were killed and four injured early today after gunmen stormed a university in Kenya's Garissa, not far from the Somalia border, officials said.

With rain having stopped, armed forces and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have managed to rescue at least one lakh 30 thousand people from flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to submit a report on Monday about the rescue, relief and rehabilitation operation for...

At least four people died when a cargo plane crashed into a building shortly after takeoff on Wednesday from the Kenyan capital's main airport, the busiest in east Africa.

Ten people were killed and over 70 wounded on Friday in two bomb attacks in a busy market in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the latest in a wave of unrest blamed on Islamist militants.

US, British and Israeli agencies are helping Kenya investigate an attack claimed by Somali Islamist militants on a Nairobi shopping mall that killed at least 72 people and destroyed part of the complex, officials said on Wednesday.

Ten fresh teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are being rushed to West Bengal in order to speed up the relief and rescue operations post cyclone "Amphan", officials said on Saturday.

Cyclone Vayu will not hit Gujarat as it changed its trajectory overnight and moved further into the sea, the weather department said. However, coastal areas in the state continue to be on high alert as strong winds and rough seas are expected for the next 24 to 48 hours. Over three lakh people were evacuated from coastal district and the union terr...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending the Army and teams of the National Disaster Response Force to flood-hit parts of the state for relief operations - barely hours after the chief minister sought help from the centre

Questions are now being raised in Jammu and Kashmir on whether the Centre had violated procedures by directly debiting Rs 500 crore for the relief and rescue operations from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF).

At least 147 students were massacred when Somalia's Shebab Islamist group attacked a Kenyan university on Thursday, the national disaster operations centre said after the deadliest attack in the country since US embassy bombings in 1998.

At least four people were killed and more than 40 wounded today when masked gunmen stormed a college in a Kenyan town near the border with Somalia, trapping students inside and exchanging gunfire with security forces over several hours.

At least two people were killed and four injured early today after gunmen stormed a university in Kenya's Garissa, not far from the Somalia border, officials said.

With rain having stopped, armed forces and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have managed to rescue at least one lakh 30 thousand people from flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to submit a report on Monday about the rescue, relief and rehabilitation operation for...

At least four people died when a cargo plane crashed into a building shortly after takeoff on Wednesday from the Kenyan capital's main airport, the busiest in east Africa.

Ten people were killed and over 70 wounded on Friday in two bomb attacks in a busy market in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the latest in a wave of unrest blamed on Islamist militants.

US, British and Israeli agencies are helping Kenya investigate an attack claimed by Somali Islamist militants on a Nairobi shopping mall that killed at least 72 people and destroyed part of the complex, officials said on Wednesday.