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District administration increases number of air sirens from a mere four to 164 in just one week; the breakdown of ...

By Srijit Das Two videos—one showing police personnel gathered around a body, and another showing police personnel ...

Operation Abhyaas’ has begun today at 4 pm, involving air-raid sirens and evacuation training across all states and Union ...

The centre has demanded 244 districts to conduct a mock drill on May 7 to test wartime operating procedures. Learn about ...

HSNC University, Mumbai in collaboration with the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), organised a comprehensive Disaster ...

Anantapur: District Collector Dr Vinod Kumar V stressed the importance of public awareness and readiness during unforeseen ...

Blackouts were conducted across Delhi's NDMC area, Patna and UP. Earlier today, Indian armed forces carried out missile strikes on nine terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir under ...

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) today conducted a mock exercise at the Nasrala LPG bottling plant in ...

A mock drill to test the preparedness of government agencies in the event of radiological and nuclear emergencies was conducted on Wednesday across 19 villages in the vicinity of the Tarapur Atomic ...

Parts of India started going dark as part of the blackout exercise for the civil defence mock drill from 7 pm on.

This exercise aims to assess and enhance the readiness of Civil Defence mechanisms across all States and Union Territories.