After Satya Niketan, the Supreme Court may push student-housing safety nationwide
The Delhi hostel collapse has moved from a local building-safety failure to a possible national regulatory question.
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Disaster Management
Exam-relevant current affairs and explainers for Disaster Management.
India’s ambulance gap is an emergency-care problem, not just a vehicle shortage
The real question is whether India has a coordinated pre-hospital emergency-care network with the right vehicles, staff and response times.
Nepal’s flood rescue exposes the Himalayan risk to hydropower infrastructure
A glacier-driven flood damaged hydropower projects and trapped workers underground, turning climate risk into an infrastructure-resilience test.
More than 90,000 affected as Himalayan disaster risks trigger fresh evacuations
Rescue work in Nepal was briefly halted after a landslide-dammed lake began overflowing, adding to fears of cascading floods.
India has put its first imaging satellite into geosynchronous orbit
EOS-05 is designed to watch large areas for longer, changing how India can monitor weather, disasters, agriculture and the ground below.
Nepal flood death toll crosses 1,000 as rescue enters a harder phase
More than 1,000 people have died and thousands remain missing after the Himalayan disaster. Rescue teams are still trying to reach remote communities and trapped hydropower workers.