ALMORA: The northern Himalayan region has experienced an average of 200 earthquakes annually for the past 27 years, a Kumaon ...

Tibet:: An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 on the Richter Scale struck Tibet on Saturday, the National Center for Seismology said ...

Command centres set up at all tiers of government. But officials say resource crunch may affect disaster risk reduction.

India-assisted development projects in Nepal are aimed at addressing pressing needs at the ground level as well as ...

In the last 10 years, the population living in cities has increased at a rate of 10 percent. Experts say that urbanization is ...

The Trump administration has moved to end deportation protections the United States granted to thousands of Nepalese people after a 2015 earthquake devastated the country, according to a government ...

The Trump administration has decided to end the temporary deportation protections for over 12,000 Nepalese in the U.S., ...

Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has recently instructed to keep disaster response preparedness in proper order and has directed ...

A recent monograph titled ‘Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar–Nepal Earthquake’ by Eleonor Marcussen shows that archival work on natural disasters in South Asia ...

One of the bloodiest chapters in the history of modern China was recorded late on June 3 when Chinese troops cracked down on ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus urged the Japanese government and entrepreneurs to extend their full support in building a “New Bangladesh” and by doing so, turning the dreams of millions of youths ...

He highlighted a recent agreement signed with Japan’s Penta-Ocean Construction and TOA Corporation to build Bangladesh’s first deep-sea port at Matarbari. JICA is supporting the project, which serves ...