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Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Sep 3, 2022
WATER WATER EVERYWHERE!!
Devastating climate events are occurring closer to our homes, a message that India must heed urgently.
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 7, 2020
States Can Make It a Win-win for Everyone
Perspective of Mr T.K.A. Nair, Former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister of India
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 6, 2020
Systems and Solutions to the Migrant Labour Crisis
Understanding the magnitude of the crisis and addressing it as a socio-economic issue from the perspective of the states, the migrants and the industry is the only way forward
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 1, 2020
Entire Asia Hit, but China Has the Mother of All Floods
There is inundation in many countries of the continent this year, caused primarily by the disregard for the ecosystem.
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 23, 2020
Failed Drugs, Fizzling Vaccines and Faith
With all our advances in science and medicine, are we not expected to fare better against the pandemic?
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 21, 2020
The Great Vaccine Rush
Is the dire need for a cure against the pandemic propelling us to ignore ironclad medical norms at our peril?
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 3, 2020
Chaotic Lockdowns Worsen the Pandemic
Is Lockdown the only weapons left in the arsenal of the State to stop the relentless march of COVID 19? And why it has failed to control?
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 30, 2020
On the fastest path to finding a cure: COVID-19
More than three months have passed since COVID-19 made its deathly entry into our lives. How far away is the cure?
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 9, 2020
Neighbourhood Virus: Are We Prepared?
Despite India’s proximity to China, COVID-19 has not yet become an epidemic here. But with new cases steadily rising, can India face the deadly threat?
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 4, 2020
Black Swan of the Decade
The deadly Coronavirus is disrupting global supply chains. How will countries cope with this unexpected “decoupling” from China?
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 13, 2020
The Locust Locomotion-Generational Foes
Despite plaguing mankind since time immemorial, human ingenuity has failed to create a defining solution. Do we need to relook at our counter-strategy?
Disaster - Op-Eds - Jan 7, 2020
The Australian Bushfires
Australia is being devastated; probably by the worst wildfires in history. Multitudes of bushfires have caused extensive damage across swathes of the continent. Like the Ostrich are we burying our…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Aug 23, 2019
The Undying Amazon Fire
Brazilian Amazon forests, devastated by innumerable fires have shrunk by 1345 square km rendering homeless countless species of flora and fauna and raising concerns about President Bolsonaro’s…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 27, 2019
Sri Lanka faces severe drought
Sri Lanka’s state-run power firm has imposed daily power cuts for the first time in more than two years as a drought has slashed hydro-power output, highlighting the government’s failure to build new…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 14, 2019
India grounds the 737 MAX
India will not allow U.S. planemaker Boeing Co’s 737 MAX aircraft to enter or transit its airspace after 1030 GMT, the ministry of civil aviation said, following the fatal crash of a plane of the…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 12, 2019
Boeing’s 737 nightmare
After the second crash of its latest passenger aircraft model, China has ordered all domestic operators to ground the Boeing 737 MAX fleet pending an inquiry into the safety of the planes. The Boeing…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 2, 2019
Measles cases soar worldwide
Just 10 countries were responsible for three-quarters of a global surge in measles cases last year, the UN children's agency reported, including one of the world's richest nations, France. Measles is…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 1, 2019
Ebola center in flames in DRC
An armed attack on February 27, 2019 led to setting fires in an Ebola treatment center in the eastern city of Butembo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The armed assailants became embroiled…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 19, 2019
MSF suspends work in DRC
Doctors without Borders is said to have suspended all non-essential work in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, February 17th, after the abduction of two of its workers earlier in the month.…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 9, 2019
12000 Chinese blood plasma contaminated
National Health Commission in China has warned hospitals to suspend use of 12,299 50ml bottles of plasma after it was found to be contaminated with HIV. The samples were taken from China’s second-…