52 rescued after cloud burst wrecks havoc in Pakistan
Shawdesh Desk: The Pakistani military rescued 52 people in a remote village of Pakistan’s Neelum Valley where torrential rains triggered off by a cloudburst wreaked havoc in the region, an ReadMore
Death toll in Nepal floods rises to 55
Shawdesh Desk: The death toll in Nepal from flash floods and landslides in the past three days rose to 55 yesterday, with dozens missing and injured, the government said. Ten ReadMore
Indonesia quake kills one, ousts hundreds
Shawdesh Desk: At least one person was found dead and hundreds were evacuated after a major 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit the remote Maluku islands in eastern Indonesia on Sunday, an official ReadMore
26 killed in Somalia hotel siege
Shawdesh Desk: Twenty-six people were killed and 56 injured in a 12-hour attack by Al-Shabaab jihadists on a popular hotel that ended early Saturday in the southern Somali port city ReadMore
Fresh allegations of war crimes in Rakhine
Shawdesh Desk: When 35-year-old Ah Hla showed up to a police station in western Myanmar in late April hoping to see her husband among the prisoners, she didn’t know whether ReadMore
Rains, floods kill 17 in Nepal, 11 in India
Shawdesh Desk: At least 17 people have been killed across Nepal after torrential monsoon rains induced floods and landslides, officials said Friday. In neighbouring northeastern India the death toll rose ReadMore
209 killed in railway accidents in six months: SCRF
Shawdesh Desk: Lack of people’s awareness and poor maintenance of level-crossings and railway bridges by the authorities concerned contributed to the rise in railway accidents across the country that claimed ReadMore
New North Korea constitution calls Kim head of state
Shawdesh Desk: Kim Jong Un has been formally named head of state of North Korea and commander-in-chief of the military in a new constitution observers said was possibly aimed at ReadMore
