SIALKOT: Gujranwala Division Commissioner Shamail Ahmed says the government plans to spend Rs350 million to save the export-oriented city of Sialkot from recurring flood threats and disasters cause

The ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs (Midimar) has launched a web portal that will help facilitate disaster data and information sharing as well as improve response to disasters.

SAVAE: Save lives, property from unfolding disaster

DHAKA : The World Bank (WB) will construct at least 330 new cyclone shelters in the cyclone prone areas of Bangladesh by 2017, reports BSS.

Less than two weeks after Cyclone Pam tore through the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, 110,000 people have no safe drinking water and some 75,000 urgently need shelter, the United Nations said on

PORT VILA – Japan is considering extending $1.2 million in emergency grant aid to Vanuatu and other Pacific nations devastated by powerful Cyclone Pam, a senior government official said Sunday.

AMID the increasing threat posed by climate change, representatives from 187 UN member States last week adopted the first major agreement of the Post-2015 development agenda, a far-reaching new fra

The world’s first academy for humanitarian relief is to be launched, aimed at training 100,000 aid workers from over 50 countries in organising rapid responses to disasters and emergencies.

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