Kathmandu, May 2:around 1,000 Canadians are still stranded in parts of Nepal, a week after the earthquake battered the Himalayan nation. A favourite among international tourists, Kathmandu Valley with its seven-piece World Heritage ensemble, bore the maximum brunt of the 7.9-magnitude quake which reduced the iconic landscape to rubble on April 25. According to private […]
Kathmandu, May 2: The death toll in Nepal’s devastating earthquake today jumped to 6,624 with another 14,025 people injured as the government struggles to deal with the scale of the disaster. “The death toll has reached 6,624,” said the home ministry’s national disaster management division. A further 14,025 people were injured in the quake, it […]
Sydney, May 1: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit off Papua New Guinea today, 110 kilometres south-southwest of the town of Kokopo, the US Geological Survey said, just a day after a 6.7 magnitude tremor in the region. The quake hit at 1336 IST, 689 kilometres northeast of the Pacific nation’s capital Port Moresby, in the […]
Washington, May 1: New images purporting to show an Islamic State (IS) training camp in Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, have surfaced on the internet, indicating that the Middle east-based terror group is making inroads into South Asia. According to Fox News, the pictures were obtained by a Pakistani journalist earlier this month and published […]
New Delhi, May 1: A day after opposition MPs demanded a ban on a medicine from his pharmacy, yoga guru Ramdev today rebutted allegations that it was being sold for conceiving a male child and claimed that he was being targeted through “lies” to defame the Prime Minister. However, he said a disclaimer will be […]