Srinagar, Jan 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The newly-created Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir will get its own National Disaster Response Force battalion to help in rescue and relief operations during natural calamities. According to details, the…
New Delhi, Jan 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) IPS officer Kumar Munnan Singh, who earned accolades for his rescue work during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, and the Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre (DMMC) in Uttarakhand have…
Shimla, Jan 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) A mild earthquake occurred in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday evening, the Met office here said. An earthquake measuring magnitude three on the Richter scale was reported at…
Srinagar, Jan 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Three more bodies were recovered on Tuesday taking the death toll to five after snow avalanche hit the higher reaches of Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. According to reports, a group of eight…
Shimla, Jan 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) A medium intensity earthquake measuring 3.4 magnitude on the Richter Scale hit Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district on Sunday, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The earthquake hit Kangra district at 11.55 a.m.,…
Shimla, Jan 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) A medium intensity earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale hit the Union Territory of Ladakh on Sunday, an official said. An earthquake was recorded at 10.54 a.m., an official in…
Vadodara (Gujarat), Jan 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Five people were killed on the spot and many injured after a blast occurred at an industrial and medical gas manufacturing company in Gujarat’s Vadodara district on Saturday. The explosion…
Naihati (West Bengal), Jan 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bomb disposal squad members on Friday inspected a 10-ft deep crater created at the spot of an explosion in Naihati town in West Bengal’s 24 Parganas North district, where…
By Pramod Kumar Jha New Delhi, Jan 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) In wake of the locust swarm reaching Rajasthan from Pakistan, the Narendra Modi government has firmed up measures to deal with the incursion and a three-member…
New Delhi, Jan 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Centre on Monday decided to provide additional assistance of Rs 5,908.56 crore to seven disaster-hit states – Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tripura and Uttar Pradesh, officials…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Three children were among nine people killed in a blaze that ripped through a three-storey building, the ground floor of which was being used as a clothes godown, in Outer…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) A massive earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale, was recorded in Afghanistan on Friday evening, the IMD said. Tremors of the quake, which occurred at 5.09 p.m. and whose…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) A massive earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale, was recorded in Afghanistan on Friday evening, the IMD said. Tremors of the quake, which occurred at 5.09 p.m. and whose…
New Delhi, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Assam government has temporarily suspended e-way bill generation for intra-state movement of goods amidst the ongoing protests in the state against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019. An…
New Delhi, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought response from the Centre, Delhi government and police over a petition seeking police protection for children injured in Anaj Mandi fire. A division…
By Ananya Bhatnagar New Delhi, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Instead of waking up to the rising red sun on a cold Sunday morning, residents of the national capital’s Anaj Mandi woke up to thick smoke and…
New Delhi, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) With 43 people reported dead, and many others fighting for their lives in the aftermath of the Sunday morning inferno at an unauthorised bag manufacturing factory in Delhi, the incident…
New Delhi, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nine out 10 injured in Delhi’s killer blaze at Lady Harding Hospital were dead on Sunday. Three out of them were minors, say hospital sources. Meanwhile, another 34 people have…
New Delhi, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Admitting loopholes on many counts, Union Housing and Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said the government will look at them only after getting detailed reports, but this is the…
New Delhi, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Prime Minister Narednra Modi announced Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia for families of those killed and Rs 50 thousand for the injured after a massive factory fire killed at least 43…