Why in News: Union Minister of State for Science & Technology inaugurated the first open rock museum (in hyderabad) displaying different types of rocks gathered from different states with ages ranging from 3.3 billion years to around 55 million years …
About NDMA The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is a statutory body constituted under the Disaster Management Act 2005, with the Prime Minister of India as its Chairman-; a Vice Chairman with the status of Cabinet Minister, and eight members …
NEWS With a rise in the frequency of devastating cyclones, India needs to look at long-term mitigation measures. CONTEXT The severe cyclones, Tauktae and Yaas, which battered India earlier this year, made landfall on the country’s western coast, Gujarat, and …
Why in News: In one of the single largest consignment of emergency medical supplies from abroad, Indian Navy’s landing ship tank INS Airavat arrived at the naval dockyard in Visakhapatnam with cryogenic oxygen tanks and other critical COVID-19 medical stores, …
About SDRF State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) is constituted under the section 48 of (1) (a) of Disaster Management Act 2005. It is a primary fund available with the State Government for responses to notified disasters. The Central Government contributes …
Why in News? To understand if a coastal city is more prone to floods caused by tidal events or extreme rainfall, a team from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, devised a new metric or measure called the Tide–Rainfall Flood …
Context The torrential rains in the third week of October in Hyderabad claimed the lives of over 50 people and hundreds of riverbed hutments were flushed away. The scale of destruction has been unprecedented and this experience is not unique …
What does the RTI Act say? Section 2(h) of the RTI Act, 2005 Under section 2(h) of the RTI Act “Public authority” means any authority or body or institution of self government established or constituted— by or under the Constitution; …
The landslide in Idukki district of Kerala has so far claimed 22 lives and rendered several homeless. What is a landslide? A landslide is defined as the movement of a mass of rock or debris down a slope. Landslides are …