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Myanmar earthquake on 28th March which sent tremors to adjoining Thailand and China’s Yunnan shocked the region due to its high magnitude of 7.7 even though the region had no such occurence in [...]

Biparjoy’ is a Bengali word which means disaster. This Cyclone disaster that scraped off a 325 Km long coastline extending from the Mandvi in Gujarat to Karachi in Pakistan is finally calming [...]

How many of us actually know the contribution of a dalit woman living through the chilling ostracization of untouchability and finally making it to the Constituent Assembly of India. While most [...]

Tigers always fascinated me, but an understanding of tigers as a phenomenon of country’s health was accidental learning. It was a morning of October 1981 at the Sawai Madhopur railway station [...]

India’s increased vulnerability to disasters and repeated calamities in the last two years is a fallout of development against nature and climate change. Orissa’s super cyclone in 1999 and Bhuj’s [...]

India is vulnerable to multiple kinds of disasters. More than 58.6 per cent of the landmass is prone to earthquakes of moderate to very high intensity; over 40 million hectares (12%) of its land [...]

 A Smart City: Utopian or Dystopian? Facts are clear on the report that cities would be the greatest centre of concern across the world by 2020 as more than 70% of its population would be [...]

As a jury for UNESCO-Netexplo University Network  Innovation Awards 2019 at Paris, one is introduced to an exceptional brilliance of a new world of professionals.In Indian universities  it is [...]

The Kerala Floods are back in news and this time due to the amicus curiae’s report to the High Court which re-established the findings made in the report of  The Special Centre for Disaster [...]

The change in the epistemology of land use can be viewed in terms of two phases: pre-liberalisation and post-liberalisation. In the pre-liberalisation phase, that is, the period starting from [...]