The full and devastating power of tsunamis has been recreated in lab for the first time, revealing valuable secrets about the little-understood waves.

BEIJING - The central government on Tuesday initiated a level-IV emergency response plan to manage the drought in Northwest China's Gansu Province.

Sri Lanka and the World Bank today signed three loan agreements amounting to US$ 187 million for three projects to advance disaster recovery efforts, to protect Sri Lanka's eco systems and for grow

Raps State for having no disaster management plan yet

Chikungunya cases in Delhi have shot up to 423, a massive rise in the figure released by civic authorities

Contractors who reinforced buildings "on the cheap" may have run up the death toll in central Italy's devastating earthquake and could face criminal charges, a local prosecutor said Sunday.

Patna: With five more deaths reported from Samastipur district on Wednesday, the toll in the Ganga floods in 12 affected districts has mounted to 28.

Rescue teams were working through the night to try to find survivors under the rubble that remained of central Italian towns flattened by an earthquake that hit in the early hours of Wednesday, kil