MOUNT EVEREST, NEPAL: Helicopters airlifted injured climbers off Mount Everest today after an avalanche killed at least 17 people, an AFP team at the scene reported, as images of the disaster showed a terrifying cloud of snow roaring towards base camp.Six helicopters landed at base camp in Nepal, the agency’s Kathmandu bureau chief Ammu Kannampilly […]
San Francisco, Apr 26: A Google executive and self-described adventurer was among 10 people killed at a Mount Everest base camp in an avalanche triggered by a major Nepal earthquake yesterday, the company and his family said. Dan Fredinburg was killed in the avalanche that buried parts of the base camp where hundreds of mountaineers […]
New Delhi : Indian Air Force planes have fetched around 546 of its citizens, including several infants, back from quake-hit Kathmandu since late Saturday with more sorties firmed up during Sunday, officials here said. The first Indian Air Force plan to arrive from the Nepalese capital was a C-130J Super Hercules with 55 passengers, including […]
Washington, Apr 26: US President Barack Obama was today briefed on the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal and India, killing over 1000 people and flattening houses and buildings. “The President has been briefed (on the earthquake),” a White House official told PTI when asked about the earthquake in Nepal and India. The quake measuring 7.9 […]
New Delhi, Apr 26: With Nepal being hit by a massive earthquake, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today promised all possible help to it in this “tough” time as he spoke to its President Ram Baran Yadav and Prime Minister Sushil Koirala. “Nepal’s pain is our pain,” Modi said while expressing sadness over the loss of […]