New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) An international conference on disaster mitigation and management in India’s northeastern region has called for a special cadre of engineers trained to assess damage as well as an “army” of…
JOMSOM, Feb. 24, 2016 (Xinhua) — Undated file photo shows a Twin Otter plane landing at Jomsom, Mustang, Nepal. Search operation has begun for a missing aircraft of Tara Airlines in Nepal that was flying…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) A 5.4 magnitude earthquake jolted Nepal on Wednesday afternoon creating panic in the Himalayan country. The quake tremors, epicentred in Sindhupalchowk district of central Nepal, were felt at 3.07 p.m. (local…
Bangkok, Feb 24 (IANS) At least 42 people were killed and more than 19,000 were evacuated as tropical cyclone Winston, of category 5, hit Fiji, the media reported on Wednesday. The Fijian government was working…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) Two infants were among the 23 people killed when their Nepal airlines plane — missing for over four hours — was discovered crashed in the Himalayas on Wednesday, a minister said….
Beijing, Feb 24 (IANS) Reconstruction of a train station severely damaged in the fatal warehouse blasts in China’s Tianjin city last year will start in March, authorities said on Wednesday. The Donghailu stop of a…
Chandigarh, Feb 24 (IANS) Haryana remained calm on Wednesday, with people pouring out of their homes in violence-hit districts and supplies of essential commodities restored. Shops and business establishments, which survived the wrath of the…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) A Nepal airlines plane with 23 people — 20 passengers and three crew members — that went missing on Wednesday morning has crashed and all people on board have been killed,…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) An aircraft with 20 passengers, among them two children and two foreigners, and three crew members on board which went missing in Nepal on Wednesday morning may have crashed, media reported….
Srinagar, Feb 24 (IANS) Traffic was restored on Srinagar-Jammu national highway on Wednesday after an attack by militants in Pampore town of south Kashmir forced its closure for four days. Markets remained closed for the…
Kunming (China), Feb 24 (IANS) A rare peacock has died in a zoo in China’s Yunnan province as photos of tourists pulling its feathers went viral online. A breeder found the dead blue peafowl, with…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) An aircraft carrying 23 people on board which went missing on Wednesday morning and is now feared to have crashed in Nepal, officials said. The Tara Air Viking 9N-AHH Twin Otter…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) An aircraft with 21 people, including two foreigners, on board went missing in Nepal on Wednesday, an official said. “The plane took off from Pokhara at 7.47 a.m. The aircraft lost…
Kathmandu, Feb 24 (IANS) An aircraft with 21 people on board went missing in Nepal on Wednesday, an official said. The search operation for the Twin Otter aircraft, flying to Jomsom town from Pokhara city…
Manila, Feb 23 (IANS) At least 20 members of a terrorist group and three soldiers were killed while six other soldiers were injured in continuing clashes in southern Philippines since last Saturday, the military reported…
Dhaka, Feb 23 (IANS) A major fire on Tuesday caused widespread destruction in a garment factory in Bangladesh’s Gazipur district. As many as 10 fire tenders were rushed to Gazipur as the factory caught fire…
Suva, Feb 23 (IANS) The toll in severe tropical cyclone Winston has risen to 28 in Fiji, the media reported on Tuesday. Besides, at least 21 people were suffering serious injuries, Xinhua quoted Akapusi Tuifagalele,…
New Jersey, Feb 23 (IANS) Former Miss America contestant Cara McCollum has passed away a week after a devastating car accident. She was 24. McCollum, a former Miss New Jersey, was critically injured after her…
Jammu, Feb 22 (IANS) Captain Tushar Mahajan of the elite Para regiment, who was killed in the gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore, was on Monday cremated with full military honours in his hometown Udhampur….
Chandigarh, Feb 22 (IANS) Captain Pawan Kumar, who was killed in the gunfight with militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore, was on Monday cremated with full military honours in his village in Haryana’s Jind district….