Industrial and other Manmade Disasters

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The coal mining sector is all set to receive a boost in India as the government plans to open up the sector to commercial players by 2018. 

India today took a major step ahead in upgrading computing capacity in the area of weather forecasting and climate monitoring.

Saving the Ennore Creek: Chennai fisherfolk stage Jal Satyagraha

Cyclone Ockhi makes landfall, affects Lakshadweep islands, Kerala and Tamil Nadu

A new study has reconfirmed the possibility that large earthquakes could be imminent in the Himalayas. While high levels of strain are getting constantly accumulated along the Main Himalayan Thrust region, only a fraction of it is getting released through small earthquakes of magnitudes less than five on the Richter scale.

The theme for the Conclave this year is “Water Use Efficiency: An Imperative for India” to highlight the imperative of water use efficiency in the industry, agriculture and urban contexts. 

Chennai, which, of late has been experiencing urban flooding often, is all set to get a comprehensive flood warning system being developed by several national agencies and institutions.

Disaster management authorities are all set to get a new tool to handle tsunamis. They will be able to know how far the waves will move into the land at different places along the Indian coast.

In August this year, the states of Bihar and Assam witnessed the worst flooding in a long time. The water level is slowly receding now but it is not giving much respite to people as the aftermath of the devastating floods has brought upon miseries of its own.