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Role of media in disaster management highlighted

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Mass media in recent years has helped sensitise people most effectively through forewarning and coverage of natural disasters, journalist T.V. Sivanandan said. Addressing officials of various departments and mediapersons at a session on the ‘Role of media in disaster management’ organised by the Centre for Disaster Management Administrative Training Institute, Mysuru, here on Tuesday, Mr. […]
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to perform ‘Shastra Puja’ in Paris for first Rafale jet

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will on Tuesday perform ‘Shastra Puja’ (worship of weapons) on the occasion of Dussehra in Paris where he will receive the first Rafale fighter jet, officials said. Mr. Singh has been performing ‘Shastra Puja’ for last several years including in his tenure as the Union Home Minister in the previous NDA […]
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Scooters, bikes used as earth excavators in Mizoram: CAG

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Moving earth in mountainous Mizoram is apparently the job of two-wheelers, not excavators. A report of the Comptroller and Auditor General has unearthed anomalies in the implementation of Border Area Development Programme (BADP) from 2012-2017 along Mizoram’s border with Myanmar. Earth-cutting and excavation along the border were done with scooters, motorcycles, auto-rickshaws and cars, the […]

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