In my decades representing victims of commercial and construction catastrophes, one pattern has never changed: nearly every “accident” was foreseeable. A missing inspection, an ignored alarm, a ...

Hyderabad Chief Secretary K Ramakrishna Rao on Friday emphasised the importance of conducting mock exercises on floods and ...

November’s Yellow Line accident should raise more than a few alarm bells this year; it should accelerate the facilitation of much-needed changes to ensure passenger and employee safety. This ...

I was scrolling through my feed yesterday when it happened again. Cat videos suddenly gave way to catastrophe alerts. That’s modern life – we’ve all become digital disaster detectives without even ...

Experts have argued for setting up an independent body responsible for handling social disasters. Read more at ...

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...

The National Emergency Management Agency has expressed its readiness to draft a seven-year national disaster risk reduction strategy. The federal agency said this is meant to reduce cases of flooding, ...

Accidents like Chornobyl and Fukushima have damaged the public perception of nuclear power, leading to decreased investment and development. Nuclear power is a low-carbon energy source with a proven ...

BEIJING, Jan 4 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it plans a three-year campaign to tackle problems hampering response times during disasters and accidents including production safety lapses in ...

Barely a day goes by without the news of another toxic-chemical disaster poisoning the water we drink or the soil where our children play. Disasters such as the massive 38-car train derailment in East ...

India, Sept. 2 -- Road accidents remain outside the ambit of India's disaster management framework, weakening the urgency of response. It is time to treat road safety as a national priority, anchored ...