The Australian Government will provide additional support to help the people of Nepal recover from the devastating earthquake. Our thoughts continue to be with the millions of people affected by this tragic event. Funding of an additional $10 million will provide critical assistance to help people rebuild their lives. It will support: women […]
Staring disbelievingly at the Basantapur Durbar Square here, which is now part-rubble and part-broken, Manisha K.C. hopes her country’s “lost heritage” is returned to its glory, “like it was before the devastating earthquake”. “This is what our heritage is all about. This is the old palace area before it shifted to Narayanhiti (Palace Museum); it […]
ABC managing director Mark Scott has announced that the ABC Oxfam Nepal Earthquake Appeal has raised $4.77 million since Tuesday, April 28. “This is a great effort from our audiences and everyone at the ABC in helping the people of Nepal recover and rebuild from the earthquake that caused so much havoc and loss of […]
Rescue teams have intensified search operations in Lantang region, one of the worst affected by the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on April 25, to find roughly 300 people who have reportedly gone missing. Among the missing people are around 100 foreigners but the authorities do not expect to find any survivors. Gautam Rimal, a […]
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that it distributed food to 267,000 of the 1.4 million Nepalese people in need of food after the disastrous earthquake that hit the country on April 25. Rice, a staple in the Nepalese diet, and nutritionally fortified biscuits were among the foodstuffs passed out, WFP representative […]
India has cautioned against the UN giving religion-based organisations a role in international security matters and warned that it could be “counterproductive”. Prakash Gupta, a counsellor at India’s UN mission, said on Monday the UN Charter’s provisions on the role of regional organisations in international peace and security issues clearly refers to “organisations formed on […]
Ran Bahadur Gurung is scouring for his belongings in the rubble which once used to be his house at this remote but picturesque village of Gurkha in Nepal, the epicentre of the devastating earthquake in Himalayan nation. While rummaging through the ruins, he stumbles across a mangled aluminum container. He flings it, mumbling something in […]
A baby girl born soon after her mother was rescued was among a record 6,551 migrants rescued over the weekend in the Mediterranean in 34 separate operations, the Italian Coast Guard said on Monday. An Italian navy vessel plucked the mother from waters in the Strait of Sicily and her baby girl was safely delivered […]
On a highway winding towards Kathmandu, there is a mad scramble to get relief material from a vehicle parked on the roadside here. Some have walked for a day to reach the spot and it is a long way back home. More than a week after the devastating temblor in Nepal, the roads and highways […]
It has been a week of agony and pain in Nepal. While tourist hotspot Pokhara escaped the brunt of the 7.9 temblor, most people remain scared. As one proceeds to Pokhara off the highway from Munglin, worried faces are a normal sight. People at roadside eateries bite into ‘sekhua’ – a dried meat dish – […]