Tag: traffic and road safety

While on an average 17 people die every hour in India, the death rate is about two every hour on Tamil Nadu's deadly roads. As many as 43 people die every day in road mishaps in the state, which also retained the dubious honour of having been host to the most number of accidents in all the states in the country.  The total number of people killed in 2015 in TN was 15,642, up from 15,176 in 2014.

A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life and property is called a disaster. It can be natural like earth quakes, tsunami, floods etc and artificial disasters like terrorist attack etc. The important aspect of disaster risk reduction is mitigation which is to reduce the effect of disaster for example, construction of wooden houses instead of concrete in disaster prone countries like Japan.

US and Bangladesh have agreed to deepen cooperation in counter terrorism via capacity enhancement and this formed the basis of the fifth partnership dialogue between the two countries

• Partnership Dialogue was established in 2012.
• It is a regular consultation to advance common agenda and opportunities for cooperation through regional and bilateral issues.

UNISDR Stands for United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. It was created in the year December 1999. It was established with goals to implement Strategies for Disaster Reduction. It is a part of the United Nations Secretariat.

A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life and property is called a disaster. It can be natural like earth quakes, tsunami, floods etc and artificial disasters like terrorist attack etc. The impact of disaster depends on the precautions we take to save our lives and our environment. One such precaution is early warning system. It provides information regarding disaster before hand and provides ample time to move people from disaster prone areas to safety. Without early warning system the training and evacuation methods can be irrelevant.

A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life and property is called a disaster. It can be natural like earth quakes, tsunami, floods etc and artificial disasters like terrorist attack etc. The impact of disaster depends on the precautions we take to save our lives and our environment. The important aspects of disaster risk reduction are mitigation which is to reduce the effect of disaster, early warning system establishment, disaster preparedness, recovery etc. Educational programmes on disaster risk reduction are the examples of Non-structural measures of mitigation.

A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life and property is called a disaster. It can be natural like earth quakes, tsunami, floods etc and artificial disasters like terrorist attack etc. The impact of disaster depends on the precautions we take to save our lives and our environment. Disaster preparedness refers to measures taken to prepare for and reduce the effects of disasters. Disaster preparedness builds capacity at all levels like at individual, social, national and global levels.

A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life and property is called a disaster. It can be natural like earth quakes, tsunami, floods etc and artificial disasters like terrorist attack etc. The impact of disaster depends on the precautions we take to save our lives and our environment. Disaster preparedness refers to measures taken to prepare for and reduce the effects of disasters. . It is a programme of long term activities to manage all types of disaster related emergencies. Disaster preparedness builds capacity at all levels like at individual, social, national and global levels.

A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life and property is called a disaster. It can be natural like earth quakes, tsunami, floods etc and artificial disasters like terrorist attack etc. The impact of disaster depends on the precautions we take to save our lives and our environment. One such precaution is early warning system. It provides information regarding disaster before hand and provides ample time to move people from disaster prone areas to safety. 

A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life and property is called a disaster. It can be natural like earth quakes, tsunami, floods etc and artificial disasters like terrorist attack etc. Structural measures are any physical construction to reduce or avoid possible impacts of hazards by the application of engineering techniques or technology. Building community shelters at various hazard prone areas is one such example.