India has cautioned against the UN giving religion-based organisations a role in international security matters and warned that it could be “counterproductive”. Prakash Gupta, a counsellor at India’s UN mission, said on Monday the UN Charter’s provisions on the role of regional organisations in international peace and security issues clearly refers to “organisations formed on […]
Ran Bahadur Gurung is scouring for his belongings in the rubble which once used to be his house at this remote but picturesque village of Gurkha in Nepal, the epicentre of the devastating earthquake in Himalayan nation. While rummaging through the ruins, he stumbles across a mangled aluminum container. He flings it, mumbling something in […]
A baby girl born soon after her mother was rescued was among a record 6,551 migrants rescued over the weekend in the Mediterranean in 34 separate operations, the Italian Coast Guard said on Monday. An Italian navy vessel plucked the mother from waters in the Strait of Sicily and her baby girl was safely delivered […]
On a highway winding towards Kathmandu, there is a mad scramble to get relief material from a vehicle parked on the roadside here. Some have walked for a day to reach the spot and it is a long way back home. More than a week after the devastating temblor in Nepal, the roads and highways […]
It has been a week of agony and pain in Nepal. While tourist hotspot Pokhara escaped the brunt of the 7.9 temblor, most people remain scared. As one proceeds to Pokhara off the highway from Munglin, worried faces are a normal sight. People at roadside eateries bite into ‘sekhua’ – a dried meat dish – […]
An Indian-origin woman gas station attendant in South Carolina, who was shot in the face and left in a critical condition, has died two days after the robbery attempt, according to media reports. Mradulaben Patel died on Saturday morning after being shot at a gas station along Highway 153 on Thursday, the local News 13 […]
The iconic central stupa, with its gazing eyes of the Buddha at Kathmandu’s iconic Swayambhunath temple still stands tall at the hilltop, but the surrounding structures inside this famed Buddhist temple complex has been reduced to rubble. A Unesco team has started a “rescue mission” to prevent looting of artefacts from this World Heritage Site. […]
“As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods; they kill us for their sport.” King Lear This could well be a powerful chorus, the primeval cry from the Arab street as the Americans erect a new balance of power in West Asia now that the Iranians have been brought into the game, creating […]
Nepal, which has been flooded with relief material, still needs 400,000 tents and food for 3.5 million people, a week after a massive quake devastated the country. A temblor measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale had jolted Nepal on April 25, killing over 6,500 people, causing widespread destruction and destroying nearly 150,000 houses, according to […]
The Australian Government will provide an additional $5 million to support the people of Nepal in the wake of the devastating earthquake. Our thoughts continue to be with those people affected by this terrible tragedy. This additional package of assistance will include: $2.5 million towards the United Nations Flash Appeal; $1.5 million to assist […]