Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue efforts are supplanted by increasing relief and recovery activity, with the death toll from the disaster hitting 3,600 and still climbing. In the capital, Naypyitaw, people cleared debris and collected wood from their damaged houses under drizzling rain,…
Seven days after an earthquake devastated Turkey in 2023, French volunteers used a suitcase-size radar to locate a survivor under the rubble. It was one of many lives the device helped save in the aftermath of the disaster. The group also rushed volunteers to Myanmar after a powerful earthquake last month leveled buildings, bridge and…
Three US aid workers were laid off while in Myanmar helping the rescue and recovery from the country’s massive earthquake, a former senior staffer said, as the Trump administration’s dismantling of foreign aid affects its disaster response. After travelling to the Southeast Asian nation, the three officials were told late this week they would be…
Bangladesh Rohingya News: बांग्लादेश में शरण लिए हुए रोहिंग्या इस समय उनके लिए सिर दर्द बन चुका है. अंतरिम सरकार के मुख्य सलाहकार मोहम्मद यूनुस कई मौकों पर इसे लेकर बयान भी जारी कर चुके हैं. हाल ही में उन्होंने दुनिया के देशों से आह्वान किया था कि वे रोहिंग्या को वापस म्यांमार भेजने की प्रक्रिया…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday told Myanmar’s Senior General Min Aung Hlaing that India was doing everything possible to assist the nation in recovering from the aftermath of a massive earthquake that killed several thousands. Modi met Senior General Min, the head of Myanmar’s military government, on the sidelines of the Summit meeting of…
Entombed under his hotel bed for five days in the debris, two things enabled teacher Tin Maung Htwe to survive Myanmar’s devastating earthquake: old school lessons and his own urine. The primary school headmaster was on a training course in Sagaing, the closest place to the epicentre, when the 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck. The 47-year-old remembered…
For years, Myanmar’s army chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has been treated like a pariah on the global stage. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing has made few overseas trips, other than to Russia and China, since he seized power in a coup in 2021. Long the subject of Western sanctions, he has been barred from…
Myanmar Earthquake Update: म्यांमार में शुक्रवार को आए 7.7 तीव्रता के विनाशकारी भूकंप के बाद के भी झटकों (आफ्टरशॉक) का सिलसिला जारी है. देश के मौसम विज्ञान और जल विज्ञान विभाग के अनुसार, गुरुवार सुबह तक 2.8 से 7.5 तीव्रता के 66 झटके महसूस किए गए. राज्य प्रशासन परिषद सूचना टीम के अनुसार, भूकंप में…
Democratic senators sent a letter to the Trump administration on Wednesday criticizing what they called the paltry U.S. aid response to the earthquake in Myanmar, where China and Russia have sent rescue and relief teams. The six senators said in the letter that the United States appeared to be failing the first test of its…
NEW DELHI: The govt on Wednesday approved second phase of Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) for next five years with an outlay of around Rs 7,000 crore. The second phase will cover villages, including the ones close to the borders of Bangladesh and Myanmar.Sources said the second phase of the scheme will cover border villages across…