Priority is to keep 'alive' oxygen plants during Cyclone Yaas: NDRF DG

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has directed its rescue teams to ensure that the country's major medical oxygen generation plants based in Odisha and West Bengal are 'running and alive'......

Cyclone Biparjoy: 1 lakh evacuated, will try to minimise loss, says NDRF DG

Fishing boats have been anchored, large ships sent to high seas, more than 4,000 hoardings taken down and salt pan workers and pregnant women have been taken to safer places as authorities have......

Tunnel rescue: NDRF to pull out workers on wheeled stretchers

Once the rescue pipe breaks through the debris at the Silkyara tunnel, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel plan to pull out the trapped workers one by one with the help of wheeled......

Odisha, Bengal evacuate people as Cyclone Dana approaches

As Odisha and West Bengal are bracing for a severe cyclonic storm, governments of both states started evacuating people and while deciding to close educational institutions in vulnerable areas.......