I enter the camp to an absolutely heartbreaking scene. Hundreds of people are queuing outside, desperately trying to see if they can find their loved ones. This army camp in Nuwakot, one of the main districts in central Nepal affected by devastating flash floods and massive landslides, has been turned into a search-and-rescue centre. Inside,…
The Nepali army has been working to rescue survivors who had been trapped inside a tunnel at a hydropower project in Rasuwa. Footage shared by the country’s prime minister office shows soliders carrying survivors and crawling across thick slates of mud to reach others. An update issued by officials on Thursday indicated more than 100…
“She kept saying the weather was good,” he says. “She said it was rather warm, it was raining sometimes.” The next morning, 26 August, Subhrasree left her hotel shortly after 7am. Bhattacharya spoke to her on the phone, and the two continued messaging afterwards. Around an hour later, she told him the Nepal immigration formalities…
Kurumi Otake was a general goods retailer, who returned to Aeon Mall Kumamoto on July 28. A 22-year-old store employee in Japan died in an explosion at a shopping mall after she had already escaped the building following a powerful earthquake. Her employer later admitted that she and another employee had been asked to go…
The BBC has seen widespread devastation on the way from Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu to Trishuli, one of the areas worst-hit by flooding on the Tibetan border. As well as ambulances, hearses were also seen along the route, where rescuers said entire villages had been washed away by floodwaters. South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri reports….
Talking Shop is our series where we talk to interesting people about their most interesting buys. Decades into her career as an award-winning singer, songwriter and actress, Kelly Rowland’s schedule is as packed as ever. She’s a coach on the newest season of The Voice UK; she’s constantly performing across the world (if you caught…
Norway’s King Harald V has died at the age of 89 after he was taken to hospital for treatment for a rare blood condition. The palace in Oslo said he passed away peacefully at 06:35 local time (04:35GMT) on Friday at the national hospital. Daniel Sandford takes a look back at his life. Source link
Dey’s victory marked India’s first-ever Commonwealth Games gold medal in judo. When Asmita Dey stood on the Commonwealth Games podium in Glasgow, there was one person she kept thinking about. Her father, Arjun Dey, was not there to see the moment. Her father had passed away seven months earlier after suffering a brain stroke.On Friday,…
There are a lot of popular beauty brands blowing up on my social feeds right now. But none are quite as ubiquitous as Medicube, the beloved K-beauty brand known for its affordable pore pads, vitamin C capsules, exosomes and sunscreen. And right now, the brand’s most sought-after products are up to 57% off on Amazon…
The investors claim they were told that “Selena Gomez, one of the most famous women on earth, with a billion-dollar brand and a platform unmatched in social media, would be actively building the company as its head of marketing”. Gomez’s attorney Matthew Rosengart says their allegations are “vague, generalised and contradictory” and that Gomez never…