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Representative image A practical guide for Indian parents and teachers on teaching children safety without scaring them: what to cover at home, school, on the road…
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Representative image Crowd crushes killed 147 people in India in 2024 (NCRB); the Hathras satsang crush on 2 July alone killed 121. Most victims cannot breathe…
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Representative image Drowning killed 40,044 people in India in 2024 (NCRB), most of them after falling into a water body. This guide explains how to spot…
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Representative image A home emergency kit lets your family leave quickly and manage on its own for the first three days of a flood, fire or…
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Representative image Six Indian disasters from 2019 to 2024, from the Surat Takshashila fire to the Morbi bridge collapse and the Rajkot game zone fire, show…
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Representative image Four crushes at Vaishno Devi (2022), Hathras (2024), Tirupati (2025) and the Maha Kumbh (2025) killed at least 169 people, and NDMA says most…
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Representative image Two of India's worst recent railway station crushes, Elphinstone Road in Mumbai (2017, 23 dead) and New Delhi (2025, at least 18 dead), both…
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Representative image India's weather and disaster agencies issue warnings for cyclones, floods, heatwaves, lightning, landslides and tsunamis, and evacuations before Cyclone Fani (2019) and Cyclone Biparjoy…
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Representative image India has no official ranking of how well each state responds to disasters, and the earlier self-made ranking on this page has been withdrawn…
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Representative image States and UTs reported 2,849 deaths from floods, heavy rain, landslides and cyclones in 2023-24 and 2,979 in 2024-25, with houses damaged rising from…
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