Children traumatised by Nepal quake need aid to rebuild lives – UNICEF
Kathmandu, Nepal Reuters About 68,000 children and their families who survived Nepal’s deadliest quake in eight years need further humanitarian aid to rebuild their lives, UNICEF said on Sunday, 100 days after the tremors that devastated parts of west Nepal. A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck two districts of Jajarkot and Rukum West in the remote […]
Indian rescuers hope to reach 41 trapped in tunnel on Thursday
Silkyara, India Reuters Rescuers in India hope to finish drilling through debris on Thursday and free 41 men trapped in a highway tunnel in the Himalayan region after a metal obstacle slowed progress, officials said. The men began the twelfth day of their ordeal confined in the 4.5 kilometre tunnel in Uttarakhand state since it […]
Death toll from Indian Himalayan flash floods rises to 42, scores still missing
Kolkata/New Delhi, IndiaReuters At least 42 people were killed after a glacial lake burst its banks and triggered flash floods in the Indian Himalayas this week, government officials said on Friday as rescuers kept searching for almost 150 missing. The Lhonak Lake in the mountainous north-eastern state of Sikkim overflowed on Wednesday after a cloudburst […]
Himalayan lake flooding in India kills 18, nearly 100 missing
New Delhi/Kolkata, IndiaReuters At least 18 people were killed and nearly 100 were missing on Thursday after heavy rains caused a Himalayan glacial lake in northeast India to burst its banks, the worst such disaster in the region in more than 50 years. Lhonak Lake in Sikkim state overflowed on Wednesday, causing major flooding that authorities said […]
Tourist tax: Bhutan seeks to balance economy and environment
Bhutan’s Sustainable Development Fee highlights challenge of trying to revive tourism post-pandemic while avoiding harm to nature. ROLI SRIVASTAVA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Over 50 killed in Indian Himalayas as rain triggers landslides
New Delhi, IndiaReuters Torrential rain in India’s Himalayas triggered landslides over the weekend that have killed over 50 people, with the death toll expected to rise as more than 20 remain trapped or missing, officials said on Monday. Unusually heavy rain and melting glaciers have brought deadly flash floods to the mountains of India and […]
Himalayan glaciers on track to lose up to 75 per cent of ice by 2100 – report
Reuters Glaciers in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya could lose up to 75 per cent of their volume by century’s end due to global warming, causing both dangerous flooding and water shortages for the 240 million people who live in the mountainous region, according to a new report. A team of international scientists has found that […]
Glacial lake floods threaten communities in Asia, South America
Reuters Melting mountain glaciers pose a growing flood risk to some 15 million people around the world, researchers said in a report published on Tuesday, with communities in Asia facing the biggest danger. Runoff from melting glaciers often pools in shallow lakes, held back by rocks and debris. The risk comes when a lake overfills, […]
“Absolute destruction”: Cracks begin to show in India’s Himalayan building spree
KRISHN KAUSHIK reports for Reuters, on concerns about the impact large construction projects are having on buildings in India’s northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand…
Essay: Why does Nepal’s aviation industry have safety issues? An expert explains
CHRYSTAL ZHANG, of RMIT University in Australia, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation, at the challenges of the aviation industry in Nepal in the wake of the country’s worst air disaster since 1992…