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helicopters and crashed into the rooftop of a Hilton hotel in Australia. Hours before the crash, he had attended a party thrown on his behalf celebrating a promotion, his company said.The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday morning in the popular tourist city of Cairns, a coastal town near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

A wildfire burned northeast of Athens, darkening the sky as the smell of smoke and soot pervaded the Greek capital

People who were forced to flee Jasper National Park three weeks ago due to wildfires will be allowed to return home this Friday.

coal ministry expects domestic coal-based thermal power plants to have a stock of 39 million tonnes of the dry fuel at the end of this month and 34 million tonnes by September-end, secretary Amrit Lal Meena told ET. The closing stocks are seen much higher from a year earlier — up 39.2% for August and 57% for September — in the critical monsoon period, when evacuation and transport of the fuel becomes a challenge. The current stocks at power plants are at 43.7 million tonnes, enough to meet about 19 days of consumption.

terrorists and security forces in Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir, resulted in the deaths of two soldiers and injuries to three others. The clash erupted during a cordon and search operation in Ahlan Gagarmandu, part of the Kokernag area. Following intelligence reports about the presence of terrorists in the area, security forces launched a coordinated operation. The Indian Army, Jammu and Kashmir Police, and CRPF were involved in the mission. During the operation, terrorists opened fire on the search party, leading to a fierce exchange of gunfire. According to PTI, an official reported, «Two soldiers were killed and three others were injured after an encounter erupted between terrorists and security forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.» The wounded soldiers have been evacuated from the site.

Narendra Modi is set to arrive in Wayanad in Kerala to assess the ongoing relief and rehabilitation efforts following recent landslides in the region. The Prime Minister is scheduled to arrive in Kannur at around 11 am and then proceed to undertake an aerial survey of the landslide-affected areas in Wayanad. The Prime Minister will visit on-the-ground locations impacted by the disaster, where he will receive a briefing from rescue teams regarding the evacuation operations currently underway.

Japan is to live with the risk of a devastating earthquake at any time. Usually, however, people tend to view that threat in the abstract. It’s kind of like thinking about death — I know I’ll die someday, but I hope it won’t be today. And so far, at least, I keep getting lucky. Until we don’t. Thursday’s announcement from Japanese authorities, warning of an increased risk of a long-feared megaquake, forced citizens to consider the very real and immediate danger of an event that would devastate the country and upend life as we know it.

BEIJING — A hazardous goods container exploded Friday on a cargo ship in China's high-traffic Ningbo Port, Taiwanese vessel owner Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation told CNBC in a statement.

Greek authorities have flown additional forces to the southern island of Crete, where 250 firefighters are battling a wildfire that has forced the evacuation of eight mountain villages

Bangladesh, two days after the Sheikh Hasina government collapsed. A special evacuation flight returned to New Delhi early in the morning with 199 adults and six infants on board. The flight, which took off without any passengers, was arranged at a «very short notice», according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Russia was battling a major cross-border incursion from Ukraine for a second day on Wednesday, with authorities evacuating several thousand civilians due to fighting, officials said. The incursion began on Tuesday morning, with the Russian defence ministry announcing it had deployed air and artillery firepower to try to quash Ukrainian troops breaking into the Kursk border region. «The operation for the destruction of Ukrainian army units is continuing,» the defence ministry said on social media Wednesday.

German authorities say that part of a hotel in Germany collapsed, leaving two people dead and three others trapped in the wreckage

Water that was released from the Chilcotin River landslide in B.C.’s Central Interior is now reaching the Fraser River.

Water has begun moving through the dam formed on the Chilcotin River by a giant landslide, but the warning from officials is a stern one.

evacuated from Kedarnath Dham, according to news reports.

Ukraine on Sunday announced the mandatory evacuation of children and their guardians from areas in the Donetsk region, where Russia has been claiming advances. Just hours earlier, Russia said its forces had seized a nearby village, after claiming a string of villages in recent weeks — many just consisting of a few streets. «The enemy is bombing the towns and villages of these communities every day, so it was decided to evacuate children with their parents or other legal representatives,» Donetsk governor Vadym Filashkin said, listing the towns and villages to be evacuated.

In response, the Pune District Magistrate requested the deployment of an Army column to support the evacuation and relief operations. The Army's role included assisting with the evacuation of residents from Dwarka Society on Sinhgad Road, a part of the Ekta Nagar area where water levels had risen significantly. The deployment comprised over 100 personnel, including infantry troops, an engineer task force from the Bombay Engineers Group, and medical staff. The team was equipped with rescue boats, quadcopters, and other essential tools to manage the emergency and aid affected communities. The relief efforts came as a result of continuous heavy rainfall, which had already caused flooding in various parts of the district, including residential areas along the Mutha River.

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Geological Survey of India (GSI) on Friday said its regional forecast bulletins for the district were experimental and issued once a day for ground testing. This process was a «part of building a prediction model», which will take 4-5 years to be ready for public use, a GSI official said. «GSI has started issuing regional landslide forecast bulletins on an experimental mode once a day for Wayanad district, Kerala. These are issued only to the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) and District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) for ground testing since the onset of the 2024 monsoon. It is restricted only to SDMA and DDMA for receiving feedback,» a GSI spokesperson told PTI. These forecasts are based on rainfall predictions provided by the National Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to prepare landslide thresholds, he said.

An ammonia leak at a commercial food preparation facility in Virginia sent 33 people to the hospital

Delhi Government has introduced new safety guidelines for educational institutions. This move aims to address critical safety lapses and prevent similar incidents in the future.