Centre yet to appoint chief of disaster response force

Natural disasters ranging from floods to earthquakes forced 32.4 million people to flee their homes worldwide last year, watchdog group the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said today.

All eyes though will be on the force of nature that is Nadal as he returns to a venue that is as familiar to him as his own backyard and where he rightly appears invincible. Rafael Nadal - Getty Images Watching Rafael Nadal churn his way through the claycourt ...

Where technology moved on snail's pace, drop boxes may become the last resort for petroleum and natural gas ministry and the Unique Identification Authority of India. After all its efforts failed to improve seeding of bank accounts with Aadhar numbers on ...

The cement companies will not be allowed to run a parallel administration as they are using natural resources of the state and will be made to reduce the price of cement in Himachal Pradesh.

Hit hard by the new norms of the Petroleum and Natural Gas ministry, the chiefs of forces have approached the Home Ministry.

Mangalore: Task force gears up to handle monsoon woes, natural calamities Daijiworld Media Network Mangalore (SP) Mangalore, Jun 5: The city corporation has infused a sense of urgency into the need to address problems being created by monsoon in the city. The ...

Weak US demand hammered coal stocks last year. American coal producers were forced to boost their exports while trying to cut back on costs. Will this strategy help coal producers win back investor confidence? Here's why, in the short term, it ...

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Reading the coverag Houston Texans The five biggest questions that are still unsettled as the Texans head into their summer hiatus, says Tania Ganguli of the Houston Chronicle. These Texans have a better Super Bowl chance than last year's ...