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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CBRNI Conference: Safeguarding Our Future The CBRNI Conference 2024 brought together specialists working on chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and industrial disaster management under the theme Safeguarding Our Future. It was held on 7 March 2024 at Mall Avenue, Lucknow. What the CBRNI Conference 2024 covered The conference programme ran across the full CBRNI spectrum. Chemical
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In this recorded session, Prof (Dr) Rakesh Kumar Sharma discusses the impact of COVID-19. The video is embedded below. About this session on the impact of COVID-19 Prof (Dr) Rakesh Kumar Sharma is CEO and Director (Academics and Innovation) at CDPRR. He is an academic and disaster management expert with a background in pharmaceutical sciences,
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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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CBRN disaster prevention has become one of the harder problems in Indian disaster management. Events involving chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials damage life, property and the environment, and they undermine the foundations of sustainable development. The threats are also changing quickly, driven by rapid technological development and a shifting political climate. Preparing India to
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Blister agents have posed a major threat to people since they were first used during the First World War, and have caused around two million casualties. Major incidents have come not only from their use as chemical warfare agents but also from occupational exposure. A clear understanding of these compounds and how they act on
Toxic blister agents: Chemistry, mode of their action and effective treatment strategies Read More »
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
