Dubai: With the cost of living surging, free hot bread distribution for the poor has been introduced in Dubai, a rich Gulf emirate where millionaires rub shoulders with hard-working migrants. In wealthy Dubai, poor get free bread from machines. The city of skyscrapers soaring above the desert, which imports almost all of its food, has […]
Nepal
Top US ski mountaineer missing on world’s 8th-highest peak
Kathmandu: Renowned US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson has gone missing on Nepal’s Manaslu mountain, on the same day that an avalanche killed a Nepali climber on the same peak, expedition organisers and officials said Tuesday. Nelson was skiing down Manaslu after having successfully summited the world’s eighth-highest mountain with her partner Jim Morrison on Monday. […]
Bodies pulled from wreckage of Nepal plane
Pokhara, Nepal: Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all but one of 22 people on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside over the weekend, the army said Monday. Air traffic control lost contact with the Twin Otter plane operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air shortly after it took off from Pokhara […]
Nepal flight missing with 22 on board
Kathmandu: A passenger plane went missing in Nepal on Sunday with 22 people on board, its airline said. The Twin Otter aircraft took off from the western town of Pokhara at 9:55 am (0410 GMT) but soon lost contact with air traffic control. “A domestic flight bound for Jomsom from Pokhara has lost contact,” Sudarshan […]
Nepal court ousts PM, reinstates dissolved parliament
Nepal’s top court ousted the sitting prime minister and reinstated the dissolved parliament Monday, plunging the Himalayan nation into further political uncertainty. The country has been in a political crisis for months amid infighting between Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and senior leaders of his party. “The dissolved parliament will be reinstated,” the court wrote […]
Death toll rises as monsoon floods hit Bhutan and Nepal
At least a dozen people have been killed in Bhutan and Nepal and several others are missing as torrential monsoon rains hit the region, triggering landslides and inundating homes, officials said Thursday. The annual monsoon season is crucial to replenish water supplies across South Asia, but it also causes death and destruction. Ten collectors of […]
Coronavirus storm engulfs Everest
Mount Everest guide Buddhi Bahadur Lama has spent days isolated in a tent after testing positive for coronavirus, as an outbreak that climbers say is putting lives at risk sweeps base camp. He is one of four in his expedition team thought to have contracted Covid-19 at the foot of the world’s highest mountain, along […]
Nepali president dissolves lower house for fresh elections in November
KATHMANDU: Nepali President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved the House of Representatives early Saturday for fresh elections on November 12 and 19 after the prospect of forming a new government has ended. “President Bidya Devi Bhandari, on the recommendation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, has dissolved the House of Representatives as per Article 76 (7) […]
Philippines bans international crew change for vessels arriving from seven countries
Philippines have banned vessels coming from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, United Arab Emirates and Oman from disembarking their international seafarers as stated by ship agents GAC. “Filipino and foreign seafarers with no immigration admission in the above countries within the last 14 days preceding arrival in the Philippines shall be allowed to disembark […]
UAE bars travellers from Pakistan, other 3 South Asian countries
The United Arab Emirates will suspend from Wednesday the entry of all travellers, including transit passengers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka amid the Covid pandemic. The UAE, which is made up seven emirates, has already suspended flights from India, as coronavirus cases in the country spiked to global records. The surge has […]