Ninety per cent of natural disasters are weather, climate and water related, Meteorology Department Director G. B. Samarasinghe said.

Heavy rains are wreaking havoc in north Telangana districts with standing crops getting damaged resulting in huge losses to the farmers.

More than three years after the devastating tsunami hit the Tamil Nadu coast, rehabilitation measures are still underway.

China's northwestern region of Xinjiang was hit by a major earthquake and several strong aftershocks early Friday, the country's official media and earthquake monitoring centers reported.

A hailstorm swept through eight villages of Monohardi upazila of the district on Monday night, leaving a man dead and 50 others injured.

More than 25 people were feared to have been buried alive in a massive landslide triggered by melting snow in the higher reaches of the hills at Nehru Kund near the famous tourist resort of Manali in

At least six persons were killed and eight injured when a huge rock rolled down from the Nehru Kund hill on the Manali-Rohtang highway, about 5 km from here, this evening.

Under the aegis of NDRF, 128 Battalion Army camp at Katamur located near Changchari, a day-long awareness camp on disaster management awareness and human rights was arranged recently for the benefit o

As parts of Afghanistan are facing the harshest winter in 25 years, 882 people have died since December as a result of sub-zero temperatures, snow and cold-related respiratory diseases, the