Mass burial has started in the capital, Kathmandu, as well, after the morgue ran out of space after one week of the devastating flood in Nepal. Security forces donned in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) carried the body bags and buried them in the Gorkarna forest area on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Amid the rainfall, … Read more
US-Iran Tensions: Four people, including a child, were killed and more than 50 injured after shrapnel from a US missile strike hit a residential home where a wedding was being held in southern Iran, according to the Iranian Red Crescent. The attack took place at Kuhestak in Sirik County of Hormozgan province, an area along the … Read more
Washington DC [US], September 2 : Washington has finalised a strategic agreement giving the United States a direct ownership stake in Venezuelan oil fields, previously influenced by Chinese and Russian corporations. Executed through the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital and partnered with a private operating firm linked to Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt, the deal secures … Read more
Kathmandu [Nepal], September 1 : The death toll from the devastating flash flood in Nepal has reached 1,003, according to an official update released by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) as of 1 PM on Tuesday. The recovered bodies, which include unidentified human remains, have been found across eight districts: 321 … Read more
Kathmandu [Nepal], September 1 : Mass burial has started in the capital, Kathmandu, as well, after the morgue ran out of space after one week of the devastating flood in Nepal. Security forces donned in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) carried the body bags and buried them in the Gorkarna forest area on the outskirts of … Read more
Five days after the flash floods that struck the Rasuwa and Nuwakot regions of Nepal, the number of dead and missing people is growing consistently. The death toll has reached 1,010 while 4,000 people remain missing, with 11,800 rescued. People are angry, blaming the Nepalese government and China. According to the Nepalese army, roughly 9,200 … Read more
Search and rescue teams are working against time to locate thousands of people missing after the devastating August 26 , the death toll in which is nearing a thousand. The sheer horror of the calamity came to the fore once again after 23 bodies were recovered from a single house buried under flood debris in … Read more
Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah has called on the international community to take urgent steps against climate change, calling last week’s floods “not an ordinary” event. In a late-night post on Monday, he wrote, “The flood in the Bhote Koshi River in Rasuwa was not an ordinary flood. It was one of the region’s major … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation that the grouping must speak with one voice against terrorism and that conflicts cannot be settled on the battlefield. Addressing the 26th SCO summit in Bishkek, as the organisation marked 25 years since its founding, Indian PM set out India’s approach around three … Read more
Donald Trump threatened to hit Iran “hard” after the two foes traded fire for the first time in over a month, while Iran’s president warned that more fighting with the US was not in his country’s interest. After six months of war, the foes remain at an impasse, with Iran keeping the strategic Strait of … Read more