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…
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…
Myanmar’s military on Wednesday declared a 21-day cease-fire to support relief and reconstruction efforts in the wake of a devastating earthquake in the country, a day after it fired on a Chinese Red Cross convoy trying to deliver food and medicine to desperate survivors. The attack on the Chinese convoy, which was widely condemned by…
An anti-corruption watchdog had flagged irregularities in the construction of a Bangkok skyscraper that collapsed in an earthquake last week and killed at least 11 people, the head of the monitoring group told Reuters. The government had threatened to cancel the project earlier this year because of delays, Mana Nimitmongkol, president of the Anti-Corruption Organisation…
A Myanmar Muslim organisation says more than 700 worshippers were killed when a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the country at Friday prayer time during the holy month of Ramadan. Tun Kyi, a member of the steering committee of the Spring Revolution Myanmar Muslim Network, said Monday that some 60 mosques were damaged or destroyed when the…
The powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake which jolted Myanmar on Friday (March 29) released energy comparable to more than 300 atomic bombs, a geologist told CNN, warning of ongoing aftershocks in the region. “The force released by such an earthquake is equal to about 334 atomic bombs,” geologist Jess Phoenix said. The earthquake, with an epicentre in…
Moments after the deadly earthquake hit Myanmar and Thailand on Friday, a 33-storey under-construction building in Bangkok came crashing down in seconds, leaving eight dead. The skyscraper, being built to house government offices, crumbled into a mass of concrete, steel, and dust. The workers, some of them in the middle of their shifts, others just…
Myanmar’s long isolation and its internal instability are likely to complicate the global humanitarian aid response to the earthquake that struck on Friday, despite a rare plea for outside help from the country’s military-dominated government. “We need and want the international community to provide humanitarian aid,” said the military spokesman, Gen. Zaw Min Tun. “We…
Earthquake In Myanmar Live: Two powerful earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 struck Myanmar on Friday at approximately 12.50 pm local time, with its epicenter located near Sagaing, just 16 kilometers northwest of the town. The strong earthquakes rocked Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, causing an under-construction building to collapse. Follow indiatoday.in for more updates. …Read More…