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Detailed disaster management plan for road & highway sector unveiled

August 23, 2025

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The New Indian Express Kannur

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has finalized a Disaster Management Plan (DMP)—a comprehensive framework for managing natural and man-made calamities with a focus on maintaining and restoring connectivity on roads and highways.

- PARVEZ SULTAN @ New Delhi

It outlines strategies for prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery, including updated road design standards, community awareness programs, and adoption of the 'Build Back Better' principle in post-calamity reconstruction.

Case studies such as landslide mitigation along NH-44 and 5 (2022), cyclone preparedness in Odisha (2021), glacial lake outburst flood in Uttarakhand (2021), post-flood reconstruction in Kerala (2018) highlight the plan's practical approach, officials said.

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The New Indian Express Kannur

Army's skill lab where soldiers learn how to win the drone war

COMPUTER screens display simulated terrain, moving targets and live telemetry as young soldiers pilot virtual drones through obstacle-heavy scenarios that resemble a video game, but are configured to replicate combat conditions.

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1 mins

April 22, 2026

The New Indian Express Kannur

The New Indian Express Kannur

Raj refinery fire delays PM inauguration, sparks row

Blaze raises concerns over safety norms, CM forms panel for probe

time to read

2 mins

April 22, 2026

The New Indian Express Kannur

The New Indian Express Kannur

Pahalgam beautiful, picturesque. No question of insecurity, say tourists

ONE YEAR AFTER ATTACK

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2 mins

April 22, 2026

The New Indian Express Kannur

The New Indian Express Kannur

WOMEN'S RESERVATION: STAY ON THE CHARTED COURSE

HERE is something profoundly disingenuous about the Opposition’s sudden outrage over the absence of a sub-quota for Other Backward Classes in the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam (106th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2023).

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3 mins

April 22, 2026

The New Indian Express Kannur

The New Indian Express Kannur

RBI tweaks e-mandates for digital payments

THE Reserve Bank on Tuesday issued consolidated guidelines for e-mandates for digital payments, making an additional factor of authentication mandatory for processing such transactions.

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1 min

April 22, 2026

The New Indian Express Kannur

MHA meeting on Nepal border security

The review on May 2 assumes significance especially after change in guard in Kathmandu and emerging situation

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2 mins

April 22, 2026

The New Indian Express Kannur

On women’s quota bill, Cong seeks to remind PM about Sonia, Rahul letters

THE Congress on Tuesday cited earlier letters of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to PM Narendra Modi demanding immediate implementation of women’s reservation in legislatures, saying the Modi government “slept” on the demand and delayed it now by linking it to delimitation.

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2 mins

April 22, 2026

The New Indian Express Kannur

The New Indian Express Kannur

Govt mulls tighter IT Rules, seeks public feedback

SOCIAL media platforms such as X and those operated by Meta, will be required to comply with any clarification, advisory, order, direction, standard operating procedure, code of practice, or guideline issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) as part of their due diligence obligations, accordingto fresh amendments proposed by the government on Tuesday.

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1 min

April 22, 2026

The New Indian Express Kannur

Address to the nation draws privilege notice

AMID an escalating tussle over the women's quota bill and delimitation, the Congress on Tuesday submitted a privilege notice against Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, alleging that the prime minister committed a breach of privilege during his address to the nation last week by \"casting aspersions\" on members of the Lower House.

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1 min

April 22, 2026

The New Indian Express Kannur

Pak extends airspace closure on the eve of Pahalgam anniversary

WITH a year of reciprocal airspace closure between India and Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attacks, Pakistan on Tuesday said it would extend the restriction until May 24.

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1 min

April 22, 2026

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