North Bihar’s flood challenge cannot be solved by structural embankments alone. A sustainable strategy requires shifting to water-and-sediment management, adopting Room for the River principles, and restoring natural wetlands like chaurs and mauns.
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Post-disaster recovery should do more than replace what was lost. This article examines Building Back Better and the emerging idea of Building Forward Better, and how both can shape safer, more resilient recovery.
Post-disaster recovery: Building back better or building forward better? Read More »
The catastrophic flash floods that struck the Nepal–Tibet border region on 26 August 2026 have once again exposed the growing danger of cascading disasters in the Himalayas. What began high in the mountains as a collapse of ice, rock and debris rapidly turned into a destructive surge that swept through narrow valleys, damaged settlements and
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Radiological terrorism is the deliberate use of radioactive material to kill, injure, contaminate and above all to frighten. Delhi has already seen how much damage a single unsecured source can do. An “orphan” device holding a radioactive component was sold to a kabari, or junk dealer, and ended up in the scrap market at Mayapuri.
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Natural radioprotectors are compounds from plants and algae that may protect healthy tissue against the damage caused by ionising radiation. This study used in silico modelling to identify promising candidates of phyto- and phyco-origin, based on their bioactivity properties. It was published in the Bulletin of Environment, Pharmacology and Life Sciences in November 2022 by
Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella is now one of the harder problems in infectious disease, because the treatment options are shrinking while the organism spreads more widely. This study used a bio-matrix based selection method to identify plant products that might work against it, and then predicted their bioactivity computationally. It was published in Biochemistry & Analytical Biochemistry
Commonwealth Games security in Delhi in 2010 worked, and the fact that nothing happened is itself worth examining. Having to abandon all thought of a successful strike because of the security arrangements can be as frustrating for a terrorist as a successful attack is for the security forces. That no strike took place during the
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