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Even as the home ministry has cleared the decks for factories and industrial units to resume operations after a nearly 55-day lockdown, NDMA has asked for all industrial operators to exercise extra caution

FDA said levels of the probable carcinogen N-nitrosodimethylamine found in ranitidine 'are similar to the levels you would expect to be exposed to if you ate common foods like grilled or smoked meats' Dr Reddy’s Laboratories had also initiated a voluntary recall of the medicine at the retail level in US on 1 Oct

At least eight people died in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh as severe Cyclone Titli hit the southern Odisha coast, triggering heavy rainfall in the coastal districts

Currently, there continue to be 16 vacant posts in National Institute of Disaster Management, which are yet to be filled

Indian Meteorological Department says Cyclone Ockhi is expected to travel north towards Mumbai, Gujarat in the next 48 hours, though it is likely to lose intensity

Facebook rolls out Disaster Maps for India to help communities across the country recover and rebuild from natural disasters faster by sharing critical data

Disaster management officials say 20 families were evacuated and eight buildings dismantled in the Hunthar locality of Aizawl after the area started sinking since last year

In other news, 10 people have lost their lives to cyclone Vardah

Here are the latest updates related to Cyclone Vardah as it hits Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh

A nuclear medicine Molibdenum 99 was being brought from Air France flight on behalf of BL Kapoor Hospital, Pusa Road, and the quantity of radiation emitted from the nuclear medicine is below 1 mill rongen, district magistrate Abhishek Singh said