Disasters

First responders to locate earthquake survivors not in too distant future could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches

Speakers stress how Covid-19 has directly affected rural women’s livelihoods

Floods, storms and fires brought chaos and destruction as extreme weather struck every corner of the globe

Traditional gender roles emerge after a disaster with women becoming the homemaker while men take charge of recovery

The southeast Asian country is prone to monsoon storms and floods, which frequently claim hundreds of lives every year

Pishin AC says people face losses due to lack of information

Disaster risk reduction approach termed imperative for building resilience, sustainable development

World Bank-funded programme aims at strengthening NDMA, ADPC to develop resilience in country

Seven others injured in the incident

Since 1980s, terrorism, political victimisation and ethnic violence have been taking the toll on Pakistanis lives

Police reform in K-P, it seems, is not yet reflected in performance

Life is cheap as road and rail accidents, fire in factories, and collapse of building structures are common occurrence

NDMA says about 10,000 educational institutions damaged in mega-floods that affected parts of Pakistan in 2010

Marx had said ‘history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce’

Vietnam and Bangladesh have begun looking at designing and implementing disaster-resilient infrastructure systems

Our leaders need to take steps for the elimination of both governance and nature-induced risks

It is the weather that is the source of the catastrophic floods in recent years

Droughts, water scarcity and other climate-related disasters can become drivers of conflict across the world

There is heavy rain forecast for northern parts of the country on April 12-13 and a heavier spell between April 16-21

Atrocious weather across the north of the country has produced a number of difficulties and some tragedy

Everyday disasters have a higher fatality rate than mega-disasters

Only by working together, can the countries of the Asia and the Pacific become disaster-resilient

Pakistan needs to pay close attention to the need for building resilience to disasters