Loss of life and property due to natural disasters (floods, wildfires, earthquakes, etc.) is an all too common occurrence each year. The speed and effectiveness of any disaster response operation relies heavily on two factors: 1) quality of situational awareness; and 2) time it takes to gather that situational awareness. Many traditional methods of monitoring disasters utilize manual inspections of satellite images, resulting in substantial delays and limited spatial coverage. In this paper, we introduce a real-time video intelligence framework that leverages deep learning object detection, semantic segmentation, and video stream analysis to provide actionable situational awareness during natural disaster events. .

Women’s rights and social empowerment have become central to discussions of inclusive development in India, yet their regional expression remains highly uneven. Hooghly district of West Bengal offers an important case for examining these changes because it combines relatively urbanized industrial belts with extensive rural agrarian areas. This study analyzes the status of women’s rights and social empowerment in Hooghly through a rural–urban perspective, focusing on demographic profile, educational attainment, access to resources, and spatial inequality. The study is based entirely on secondary data drawn from Census 2011, district statistical sources, NFHS-5 indicators for West Bengal, and published research on women’s status in Hooghly. .

This paper examines how the discourse of personal empowerment in the writings of women authors from North East India can be read alongside key ideas in Swami Vivekananda’s thought. It does not argue for direct literary influence; rather, it develops a comparative interpretive framework. Vivekananda’s emphasis on education, inner strength, freedom, dignity, self-realization, and the spiritual equality of women offers a useful lens for reading the self-assertive voices found in the works of writers such as Mamang Dai, Temsula Ao, Easterine Kire, and Esther Syiem. Scholarship on North East Indian women’s writing shows that these authors repeatedly foreground identity, memory, orality, trauma, cultural survival, and women’s agency in the face of marginalization and political violence. .