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Five miners and two rescuers die of suffocation after a methane gas fire in Balochistan – the second such disaster in the region in a week.Quetta, Pakistan – At least five coal miners and two rescuers have died of suffocation after a methane gas fire in the southwestern Pakistani ...

Shamim Bano, a middle-school teacher, has recently returned from a fortnight in Kabul where she taught Afghan women to do search and rescue work. The training “involved climbing mountains and gorges using ropes and harnesses, using ziplines and rappelling”, she explained. “Any wrong move and you can start a ...

An ‘Anti-Science’ Move by the GovtIn 2017, scientists at the Centre for Glaciology submitted a detailed report on floods in the Himalayas. Researchers also raised concerns over the manner in which permission was granted to new power projects along glacial-fed rivers in the Himalaya region. However, in July 2020, ...

Uttarakhand: 26 bodies recovered, 197 missing Tapovan/Dehradun, February 14: Rescue teams on Sunday recovered 13 more bodies, including the first ones to be pulled out from the sludge-choked Tapovan tunnel where a massive operation to reach about 30 people trapped inside began after a flash flood in Chamoli district ...

JAMMU : The body of a missing foreman from Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir has been recovered from the flash flood-hit Joshimath area in Uttarakhand, officials said on Sunday.Jitender Kumar Kotwal was among two persons from the union territory who had gone missing after the calamity struck the ...

#Pakistan News Experts might be divided on whether a landslide or a glacier burst caused deadly flooding in Uttarakhand but all agree building mega-projects in defiance of warnings and a similar disaster in 2013 resulted in heavy losses in the Himalayan region. Massive floods that crashed into two hydroelectric ...

Home Minister Amit Shah Parliament Proceedings Live News: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today informed Rajya Sabha that 20 people have died and 197 are still missing in glacier burst disaster that struck Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Sunday. The Home Minister said that till 5 PM yesterday, 20 bodies were ...

A look at the headlines right now:Night-long tunnel operation under way to rescue 39 trapped inside after Uttarakhand glacier disaster: The Uttarakhand chief minister, who reached the site to review the rescue operation, said that a comprehensive analysis of the whole episode was being done. Meanwhile, experts said flash ...

“If this peace effort collapses then we could see a big humanitarian disaster in the country that is for sure, I hope it won’t,” he said.Violence and chaos have increased in Afghanistan in recent months even as government negotiators and the Taliban are meeting in Qatar to find an ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.N. ‘s top official for refugees said Tuesday that if the Afghan peace process collapses and violence continues, there will be a humanitarian disaster as thousands of displaced people struggle to survive the pandemic amid the harsh winter. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo ...