4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (173+ words) The Rising Nepal Bhotekoshi floods: PM begins discussions with chiefs of all security agencies Kathmandu, Sept 9: Prime Minister Balendra Shah has begun a high-level discussion with the chiefs of all three security agencies on the situation following the devastating flash…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (515+ words) Jakarta, Sept. 9: Flights to and from Indonesia's capital and nearby regions resumed Tuesday after ash from a volcanic eruption forced two days of airport closures that halted nearly 3,000 flights. Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and Halim Perdanakusuma Airport serving Jakarta and three…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (834+ words) The catastrophic Bhotekoshi flash flood of August 26 proves that the threat of disasters in the Himalayas amid global warming and climate change is not a fiction but a harsh reality. Moreover, the calamity is coming in a form never seen…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (824+ words) Congo, Sept. 8: Yuma Adolphe and his team are responsible for the safe and dignified burial of some of the people who die from Ebola in Congo's Ituri province, the epicentre of history's deadliest Ebola outbreak. Nearly every day, they dig…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (283+ words) Venezuela, Sept. 7: Antonella Molina, her nephew Pedro Molina and a group of friends set out at 8 a.m. on a recent Saturday, hands full of flyers, walking carefully through the rubble that remains throughout La Guaira after two catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes 10 weeks…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (428+ words) Kathmandu, Sept 6: The Nepal Police has been working untiringly for the search, rescue, relief distribution and rehabilitation following the August 26 devastation in the country. The Police Headquarters informed RSS that total 7,912 police persons were mobilized in response to the Bhotekoshi…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (457+ words) Kathmandu, Sept 4: The government has said search and rescue operations were continuous on Friday, tenth day of the calamitous Bhotekoshi flood, occurred on August 26. The floods caused a huge loss of lives, widespread displacement and extensive damage to houses, roads,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (267+ words) Istanbul, Sept. 5: The captain of an oil tanker that collided with a cargo ship which sank off Istanbul leaving 10 missing has been arrested along with his third-in-command on charges of negligent homicide, prosecutors said Friday. The pair were arrested by…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (441+ words) By Chandani Acharya, Ghodaghodi (Kailali), Sept. 5: Every time his mobile phone rings, 63-year-old Dan Bahadur Kunwar is startled suddenly. He hurriedly picks it up, his heart filled with a single hope: Could it be news that his son, Tapendra, has…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (220+ words) Need of more friends Reducing all these contributions to a simplistic dollar ranking is like comparing apples and oranges. More importantly, such comparisons risk discouraging countries from helping. If every contribution is immediately placed on a scoreboard and criticised for…...