Disaster Management Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam
Protecting floodplains is the need of the hour
Context Humanity is struggling with a shortage of water as well as an excess. As the World Health Organization stated, ...
Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI)
Context The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), headed by India, is readying a global database Global Infrastructure Risk Model ...
Joshimath Land Sinking
Context Recently, the Joshimath town have developed major or minor cracks on the floors, ceilings and walls. Beams had been dislodged in many ...
Places in News: Mauna Loa volcano
Context The ground is shaking and swelling at Mauna Loa volcano, the largest active volcano in the world, indicating that ...
Categorization of CDRI
Categorization of CDRI Context Recently, the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister has approved the categorization of the Coalition ...
What is lightning?
Context Of all the atmospheric phenomena, lightning perhaps is the most dangerous and mysterious. In India, lightning kills about 2,000-2,500 ...
Global Risks Report 2022
Context Environmental factors like human environmental damage and natural resource crisis were also believed to be among the top 10 ...
ACROSS Scheme
Context Recently, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved ACROSS Scheme i.e. ‘Atmosphere and Climate Research-Modeling Observing Systems and ...
Tabletop Runways
Context The Air India Express-operated Boeing 737-800 aircraft overshot Kozhikode airport’s runway — a tabletop runway like Mangaluru’s — and ...
Beirut Explosion : Ammonium Nitrate
Context The catastrophic explosion at Beirut port evening, according to the government of Lebanon, caused by over 2,700 tonnes of ammonium ...
Angikaar Campaign
Context Recently the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched “Angikaar” a campaign for change management and e-Course on ...
International Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
Context Recently the Union Cabinet has given ex-post facto approval for the Establishment of an International Coalition for Disaster Resilient ...
Lessons after the great deluge
Context The unique geography of Kerala, with its steep climbdown from 900m high elevations of the Western Ghats to the ...
The International Charter Space and Major Disasters
Context With Assam inundated by floods, several countries including China, Russia and France collaborated with India on sharing satellite images of the ...
Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP)
Context: The World Bank, the Government of India and representatives of 5 States of Government of India and Implementing Agencies ...
