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Representative image India's 53 mega cities recorded 69,378 accidental deaths in 2024, a rate of 43.2 per lakh against 33.3 nationally (NCRB). Floods, fires, heat, building…
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Representative image About 59% of India's land is prone to earthquakes (Ministry of Earth Sciences, 2022). Under the BIS zone map, about 11% is in Zone…
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Representative image NCRB recorded 5,544 heat or sun-stroke deaths in India from 2019 to 2024, with 2024, India's warmest year since 1901, more than doubling to…
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Representative image Drought is a health emergency as well as a farm crisis: it brings heat illness, unsafe water, hunger and mental distress. About 68% of…
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Research figure (Applied Sciences journal) — shown for illustration ISRO's Landslide Atlas of India (2023) maps about 80,000 landslides from 1998 to 2022 across 17 states and two UTs in the Himalayas and…
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Representative image IMD reported 35 named cyclonic storms over the north Indian Ocean from 2019 to 2025, 25 of them severe or stronger; 22 formed on…
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Representative image India's flood risk is concentrated but widespread. A Central Water Commission satellite study found 21.213 million hectares, about 6% of India, was flooded at…
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Representative image India's 108 ambulance service began in Andhra Pradesh in 2005 and now runs in 35 states and UTs with about 11,000 ambulances (2024). It…
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Representative image Most drowning victims can be saved by someone who stays on dry land. Reach, throw or row before you ever go in, and call…
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Representative image Dial 112 for any emergency, or 101 for fire and 108 for an ambulance. Say who you are, where you are, what has happened…
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