New Delhi: The Indian government is coordinating with authorities in the Philippines to search for Biju K who was abducted by armed militants in June. Search efforts have been intensified with local military and police pitching in to trace the 36-year-old Biju who went missing when he went visiting his in-laws in the Philippines. The Mayor of Patikul town has also set up a Crises Management Committee. Reportedly the abductors...
03:50 PM, Jul 13, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: A 36-year-old man from Kerala has been kidnapped in Philippines. Anguished parents of the man kidnapped in the Philippines have appealed to the government for help as his kidnappers have demanded Rs 60 lakh as ransom. 76-year-old Narayanan and family from Koyilandi, Kozhikode in kerala have been in a state of shock after they were told that their son Biju K was abducted in the Philippines on June 23....
08:21 AM, Jun 26, 2011
Singapore: India finds itself bracketed with countries like Philippines and Cambodia, rated as the fourth most corrupt nation among 16 countries of the Asia Pacific region surveyed by leading Hong Kong-based business consultancy firm PERC. The Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd (PERC) rated India at 8.67 on a scale of zero to 10 with the high end being the worst case of corruption scenario and ahead of the Philippines...
04:57 PM, Mar 29, 2011
New Delhi: India has ordered imported Japanese food products to be tested for radioactivity, food safety authorities said on Tuesday. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India said in an letter to its units at ports the order applied to products shipped out of Japan after March 11. Several other Asian nations like Thailand, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines have ordered similar tests. Japan faces the...
09:37 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Singapore: Tsunami warnings have been lifted for some densely populated Asia Pacific countries previously thought to be at risk after a huge earthquake that hit Japan on Friday, the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) and national officials said. Earlier, the center issued a warning for the entire Pacific basin except mainland United States and Canada, and including Hawaii, and extending from Mexico down to South American countries on the...
11:02 AM, Mar 12, 2011
Luzon: The strongest typhoon to menace the Philippines in recent years hit the northeastern coast on Monday as thousands of villagers fled to safety amid massive emergency preparations. Local weather forecaster Robert Sawi said the eye of the typhoon made landfall at midday on Monday at Palanan Bay in Isabela province. As it crosses the main northern island of Luzon, Sawi warned of possible floods and landslides, particularly in the...
12:23 PM, Oct 18, 2010
Manila: Two Indians and a Filopino abducted in Philippines on Thursday were rescued after a shootout in which five kidnappers were killed, police said. The law enforcers in a shootout killed the kidnappers on Saturday morning in a province south of Manila, Xinhua reported. Police identified the hostages as Pavitter Singh and Balvir Singh, both Indian nationals, and Luciano Clemen, a Filipino, who were kidnapped from Marilao town of Bulacan...
10:07 AM, Oct 17, 2010
Manila (Philippines): Gunmen wearing police uniforms stopped a passenger bus in the southern Philippines early on Wednesday and fatally shot four people, including two police marshals, officials said. The attack came just three days after a disgruntled ex-policeman took hostage a busload of Hong Kong tourists in Manila, killing eight of them before he was shot dead by a police sniper. Police said the bus attacked on Thursday was travelling...
08:01 AM, Aug 26, 2010
On Monday evening, security forces stormed the hijacked bus in Manila and killed the hostage taker. ...
07:27 PM, Aug 23, 2010
Manila: Philippine police stormed a bus on Monday on which a sacked former police officer was holding 15 Hong Kong tourists and local media reported the hostage-taker had been killed. Police could be seen removing a body from the front of the bus before entering the vehicle. At least four hostages left the bus alive, but TV images also showed more bodies being removed. The end of the day-long stand-off...
05:39 PM, Aug 23, 2010
Manila: A dismissed policeman armed with an automatic rifle seized a bus in the Philippine capital Monday with 25 passengers aboard, most of them Hong Kong tourists, in a bid to demand his reinstatement, police said. Police sharpshooters took positions around the white-blue-red bus, which was parked near a downtown Manila park, and negotiations to free the hostages were under way, deputy director of Manila police Alex Gutierrez said. Two...
11:03 AM, Aug 23, 2010
An earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale hit the Philippines but there was no report of any casualty. ...
08:12 PM, May 31, 2010
Two separate explosions rocked Philippines on Monday morning. ...
08:36 AM, Nov 09, 2009
About $69 million worth crops have been destroyed due to the calamities. ...
12:19 PM, Oct 10, 2009
An earlier storm killed 277 people in and around Manila. ...
03:39 PM, Oct 01, 2009
The death toll has climbed to at least 240, with 37 still missing. ...
03:00 PM, Sep 29, 2009
Thousands were stranded as airports shut down operations. ...
12:40 PM, Sep 28, 2009
Miltary has been called in for the rescue operation. ...
04:17 PM, Sep 27, 2009
