Disaster

Using high-altitude cameras, system ‘automatically’ identifies fires and collapse of buildings

Industrialists demand immediate govt action to avert impending disaster

Country’s debt has soared by around Rs12 billion to post a composite figure of Rs81 trillion in this fiscal year

Amount is less than one-third of $10b committed for flood relief by donors at an international conference in January

More than 25 people also sustained injuries in torrential rains across K-P

WHO has sounded the alarm over an impending second disaster of disease and death

Humans have failed to live with the understanding of nature

Managing twin disasters in a highly-polarised polity

Pakistan has many seismic zones and as many high-rises are vulnerable to earthquakes and not always structurally sound

With its walls pounded by artillery, roofs torn open and concrete beams in shreds

Saudi-backed govt launch a hail of mortar and machine gun fire in a desperate bid to push back Houthi forces

KU, NDMA join hands to tackle emergencies

Half a million residents evacuated in Jiangxi province, nearly 24,000 soldiers deployed in country’s east

PDMA lacks comprehensive guiding principles to respond to and mitigate calamities despite being active for a decade

No reports of any serious damage but trees toppled over, power knocked out

500 villages affected, thousands of homes destroyed or damaged in the southeastern province

Norweigan govt will provide $5 million to NDRMF from unused resources of Pakistan Earthquake Fund

The number of people believed to have died in Monday's disaster now stands at 16

Case was adjourned until December 12

Staff were preparing for New Year celebrations comprising traditional firework displays

The city suffered its highest tide in 50 years

The efficiency of both government and disaster management authorities are tested in the event of a disaster

Earthquake shakes buildings, damages two mosques

WHO sends medical supplies, food and medicine shortages reported

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were acquitted in the only criminal trial stemming from the 2011 disaster

One person dies and two others sustain injuries

Ex-FATA MPAs call for greater attention to resolve their problems as solidarity expressed on Kashmir

Which are often hard for humans to identify on their own

Statements reiterate previous warnings regarding global warming being the most serious threat facing the Pacific

Sparked by a cigarette as people rushed to collect leaking fuel says police

Some reports of minor damage, no injuries

Second such incident in same area

Locusts had appeared in the districts of Jamshoro, Matiari, Shaheed Benazirabad, Sanghar, Noushero Feroz and Khairpur

The blaze had erupted on Friday on the mountain that stretches across Swabi and Mardan districts

'HBO's' latest offering retells the haunting tale of 1986 nuclear disaster

The main culprit is catastrophic subsidence caused by groundwater being pumped out from below

site 40 years ago of the worst ever US nuclear accident

In Sicily, an unexpected gust of wind killed a 65-year-old German kitesurfer

Several hundred thousand people told to evacuate coastal areas of West Bengal

Flood-related deaths have been reported in 11 out of Iran's 31 provinces

Three others outside the workshop suffer mild injuries and are still in hospital

As the vessel was crossing the Tigris to celebrate the Kurdish New Year

Cyclone Idai tore through Mozambique and inland neighbors Malawi and Zimbabwe after making landfall last week

High winds and dense clouds hamper military rescue helicopter flights

Killing six people and injuring dozens

Mineral-laced sludge from the disaster contaminates 120 kilometers of the Paraopeba River

Those listed as missing are presumed dead says the emergency service

Over the past 20 years, Pakistan has seen 141 extreme weather-related calamities

The odds are minimal and it is most likely we will recover only bodies, says governor

25 people still missing