The government on Wednesday decided to set up a well-equipped National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) to conduct, coordinate, guide and monitor search and rescue operations during any possible disaster, including earthquake, and its aftermath. The decision was taken at a…
Langtang the most beautiful village at the foot of the Himalaya and used by trekkers on their way to climbing Mount Everest has been completely wiped out in an avalanche of earth and snow triggered by the April 25 earthquake,…
The NGO Federation of Nepal at a meeting in Kathmandu has urged their government to face the challenge of coordination of the post quake rescue and relief operations for achieving maximum effectiveness to relieve the sufferings of the quake-stricken people.…
Nepal’s authorities have ruled out the possibility of finding more survivors of last Saturday’s earthquake, as the death toll has risen to 6,621. “We are trying our best in rescue and relief work but now I don’t think that there…
The 15-year-old boy had been buried alive for five days, listening to bulldozers clearing mountains of debris, fearful the incessant aftershocks might collapse the darkened crevice he was trapped in. And then, “all of the sudden I saw light,” Pemba…
Meenakshi Ganguly I reached Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu state a few days after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami had killed nearly 300,000 people in south and southeast Asia, including more than 10,000 in India. The disaster had shocked the world,…
Earthquake has become the most talkative issue now-a-days all around the world especially in South Asian region because they have experienced the vulnerable shock. Researchers are saying that Bangladesh is positioned at the juncture of several active tectonic plate boundaries.…
United Nations, Apr (IPS) – The death toll has now passed 5,000, and there is no telling how much farther it will climb. Search and rescue operations in Nepal entered their third day Monday, as the government and international aid…
Nepal has declared three days of mourning for the victims of Saturday’s earthquake in which more than 5,000 people are now known to have died. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala says the government is doing all it can but is overwhelmed…
By Sally Hayden The rapidly escalating toll of people killed in Nepal’s earthquake could reach 10,000 — as rescuers run out of the time still needed to discover possible survivors of Saturday’s disaster. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala voiced the estimate…
Nine out of 10 Nepalese troops are said to be involved in search and rescue operations, as the country pleads for more foreign aid to deal with a massive earthquake that killed 4,000 people.
By Colleen Curry Harrowing videos of Mount Everest climbers running from an avalanche and watching as the injured were airlifted off the mountain began to emerge today from the aftermath of Nepal’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The climbers described chaos as…
At least 3,618 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on Saturday, say officials. Rameshwor Dangal, head of Nepal’s disaster management agency, said another 6,500 people had been injured. Dozens of people are…
A powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake in Nepal sparked a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest on Saturday, killing at least 17 people on the mountain. At least 30 were injured.
The tremors on Saturday’s devastating earthquake in Nepal lasted barely a minute by some accounts, yet this was enough to bring down centuries of Nepalese history. Among the buildings to collapse was the Dharahara tower, which once dominated the skyline…
Rakibul Hasan Yesterday I was browsing online; few watching movies and glancing morning newspapers though, while mostly sleeping, and two of them snoring in delta sleep on the Saturday holiday; reasons were perhaps no tensions of classes. However, I suddenly…
A powerful earthquake — the country’s worst in 80 years — rocked mountainous Nepal on Saturday, killing more than 1,800 people and leveling buildings and centuries-old temples. Dozens if not hundreds remained trapped under mounds of rubble. Hospitals in the…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 3,170 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup worth Tk 12.68 lakh from Laxmipur border area in Shibganj upazila early Wednesday.
About 400 migrants are feared drowned after their boat capsized off Libya, survivors have told Save the Children. The Italian coast guard had rescued 144 people on Monday and launched an air and sea search operation in hopes of rescuing…
At least 11 persons were killed and dozens others injured as a nor’wester lashed different districts in the country on Saturday afternoon. Of the dead two were from the capital, three each in Bogra and Rajshahi, and one each in…
The first major thundershower of the season on Wednesday claimed seven lives in lightning strikes in five districts, according to respors received in Dhaka. The thundershower however brought relief from swealterning heat of the past several weeks. Of the seven…
Andy Soos, ENN It will take tens of billions of dollars to repair the damage of Superstorm Sandy. Will this be the norm of the future as climate changes and the sea level rises? If it is the new norm…