Katmandu: Nepal's air rescue office has said that a plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest is missing and has been out of contact with the control tower for more than an hour. The Beechcraft plane belonging to Buddha Air was carrying 16 foreign tourists and three crew members. It lost contact on Sunday on approach to the Katmandu airport. An official at the rescue center did not have any...
08:53 AM, Sep 25, 2011
Home Secretary RK Singh said after the quake in Sikkim on Sunday, rescue teams were facing difficulty due to the weather but was power restored in the region. ...
12:57 PM, Sep 19, 2011
Sikkim MP Prem Das confirmed that 16 people were killed and over 100 were injured in the earthquake which rocked north India on Sunday. ...
10:44 AM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: At least 28 people have lost their lives and over 100 injured after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Sikkim on Sunday evening. Authorities fear the toll could rise further. The exact extent of damages is yet to be assessed as relief and rescue is yet to reach affected areas. Out of the 28 dead, 19 are from Sikkim, two from Bihar and five in West Bengal. Two Army...
10:15 AM, Sep 19, 2011
The topography of the area in Sikkim where the earthquake occurred on Sunday is such that it may hamper rescue operations. ...
09:34 AM, Sep 19, 2011
A 6.8 earthquake rocked Sikkim on Sunday. Here's why the state is prone to frequent seismic activity. ...
08:01 AM, Sep 19, 2011
The epicenter of the earthquake that jolted parts of North India on Sunday was Mangan in Sikkim. Here's a look at the areas most affected by the earthquake. ...
08:01 AM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: Two army jawans were killed and military buildings damaged in the strong earthquake that rocked Sikkim on Sunday. Three army vehicles and a bus with soldiers were also reported missing in the North Sikkim area, Army officials said on Sunday night. "There has been fatal casualty of two Army persons in North Sikkim area. Two to three army vehicles including one bus with army personnel are also reported...
07:42 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Kolkata: The regional meteorological centre on Sunday night warned of landslides in hilly areas of north Bengal in the aftermath of Sunday's earthquake. "There may be landslides in the hilly areas. Some aftershocks were also felt after the quake while the Terrai and Doors region are already experiencing intermittent heavy rains," Met department director GC Debnath said. The weatherman, however, allayed fears of fresh quake in the area. "There is...
07:38 AM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Gadkari on Sunday expressed concern on the earthquake that hit several parts of the country. Sonia, who expressed "deep concern and anxiety", has urged authorities and the disaster management system to remain vigilant and extend all help to the affected areas, the Congress said in a statement. Gadkari also expressed solidarity with the people affected by the...
07:25 AM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: A severe earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale rocked Sikkim on Sunday evening resulting in at least 20 deaths and injuries to several others. The epicentre of the quake was Mangan, 64 km from Gangtok in Sikkim, causing major damages in the area. The area of Mangan was said to be the worst hit. Seven people have been killed in Sikkim and five people are reported dead...
12:16 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Washington: In the run up to the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Flight 814 by Pakistan-based terrorist outfits, the ISI had made Nepal a hub of anti-India terror activities from where it pushed huge quantities of RDX into the country, latest US cables released by WikiLeaks say. In these cable, US officials have conceded that it is the ISI which created various terrorist fronts to carry out terrorist activities in...
10:45 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Kathmandu: Maoist leader Dr Baburam Bhattarai was on Sunday elected Nepal's new prime minister defeating his Nepali Congress rival RC Poudyal, with the Terai-based Madhesi alliance extending crucial support to the former rebel leader. 57-year-old Bhattarai, who has a PhD from New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, polled 340 votes, while Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party leader Poudyal could secure 235 votes. The United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF), the alliance of Madhesi...
07:08 PM, Aug 28, 2011
London: Some 12 million people across the world do not have citizenship of any country, and are being denied basic human rights as a result, the UN has said. The UN said the issue is becoming worse as stateless children are born to stateless parents. The problem is most widespread in South East Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the BBC reported. Countries with the largest...
07:57 PM, Aug 25, 2011
Kathmandu: Nepal's Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal resigned on Sunday pushing the country back into turmoil as political parties scrambled to form a new coalition government and draft a new constitution. Khanal, a moderate communist, was elected six months ago and vowed to carry out the promises made in a 2006 peace deal with Maoist rebels. But political in-fighting blocked his attempts to help thousands of ex-Maoist fighters living in camps,...
08:25 AM, Aug 16, 2011
Kathmandu: Nepal's embattled Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal resigned on Sunday, succumbing to intense pressure from the main opposition Nepali Congress and his key ally Maoists, throwing the country into a fresh political crisis. "The Prime Minister has tendered his resignation and the president has asked him to serve as the caretaker after accepting the resignation," President Ram Baran Yadav's press advisor Rajendra Dahal said. The process of electing a...
09:35 PM, Aug 14, 2011
Mumbai: Amidst reports that gangster Bharat Nepali was killed in Thailand, city police on Friday said arrested fugitive don Santosh Shetty claimed to have bumped off Nepali in November 2010 at Pattaya in Thailand. There were reports that Bhagwant Singh alias Nepali, who is a former member of underworld don Chhota Rajan, was killed in Thailand, but Indian authorities did not confirm it. "Shetty claimed he had shot dead Nepali...
11:47 PM, Aug 12, 2011
Kathmandu: Though Nepal police have released the envoy of exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama after detaining him for eight hours, the threat hanging over the Tibetan diaspora deepened with the 55-year-old having to sign an undertaking. Thiley Lama, who is officially known as the volunteer coordinator of the Tibetan Refugee Welfare Office in Kathmandu, formerly part of the office of the Dalai Lama in Nepal, had to sign an undertaking...
01:43 PM, Aug 06, 2011
Kathmandu: When Indian crooner Mamta Sharma's husky voice combined with glamour girl Malaika Arora's pulse-raising gyrations in Bollywood blockbuster "Dabangg", no one doubted that the raunchy song "Munni badnaam hui darling tere liye" would become an all-time hit in the sub-continent. However, few could have guessed that almost a year after the film was released, the "item number" - as a song and dance number is called in the Hindi...
01:17 PM, Jul 29, 2011
