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Climate Hazards and Vulnerability Atlas of India
The scientists of CRS have created a climate hazards and vulnerability atlas of India. CRS is Climate Research and Services and it operates under India Meteorological Department (IMD). About the map The scientists created the map based on 14 extreme weather events. They also considered the risks and threats imposed by these 14 weather events ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Atlas • Changing rainfall pattern • climate vulnerability • Climate Vulnerability Index • cold waves • Cyclones • disaster monitoring • Flood • flood monitoring • Fog • hail storm • Heatwaves • Indian Meteorological Department • Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) • Lightning • Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) • Natural Disasters • population density • Rainfall • snowfall • Thunderstorm • Winds • World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
PANEX-21
PANEX-21 is a Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Exercise. It is to be held for the BIMSTEC countries. About PANEX-21 It is a multi national disaster relief exercise. The exercise is to be held among the BIMSTEC countries: Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. The main aim of the exercise is to ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2021
Category: Events Current Affairs • Important Days & Events Current Affairs
Topics: Bay of Bengal • BIMSTEC • Cyclones • HADR • Human Assistance and Disaster Relief • PANEX-21
GRID 2020 report: Over 5 million displaced in India in 2019
The Global Report on Internal Displacement, GRID 2020 released by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, IDMC said that over 5 million people have displaced in India in 2019. According to the report, this is the highest in the world. Highlights: World According to the report, around 33.4 million people faced displacements in the world due to ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Cyclones • Disaster Managament • Internal Conflicts • Migrant workers • Natural Disasters • Vulnerable
IMD released list of 169 new names of Tropical Cyclones
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has released 169 new names for the tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean Region. Highlights The names were contributed by 13 countries namely India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Thailand, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iran. The decision to create new list of cyclones was taken during ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Arabian Sea • Bay of Bengal • Cyclone • Cyclones • Cyclones in India • Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) • Indian ocean region • World Meteorological Organisation
RIMES terms Titli cyclone ‘rarest of rare’
Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) for Africa and Asia has termed ‘Titli’, the severe cyclonic storm that devastated Odisha in October 2018 as ‘rarest cyclone’. Earlier, India Meteorological Department (IMD) had called formation of Titli as ‘rarest of rare’ occurrence after this severe cyclone had changed its path after making landfall. Key Facts ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2018
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Cyclone • Cyclones • Disaster Management • Environment • Fluid dynamics • Meteorology • North Indian Ocean cyclone season • Odisha • Physical geography • Rarest of Rare • RIMES • Titli cyclone • Vortices • Weather hazards