At least 53 people have been killed, thousands displaced as a result of wildfires in the US town Lahaina, according to a media report on Friday. Hawaii Governor Josh Green said the destruction caused by Maui’s wildfires was the worst natural disaster in the state’s history, turning thousands of people homeless and leveling as many More
Torrential rains and floods have left at least 33 people dead and 18 others missing in Beijing, a media report said on Wednesday. The Chinese capital was hit by flash flooding induced by the heaviest rains in six decades from July 29 to August 2, the Global Times reported. One government official told a press More
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in a report says about 118.5 million girls around the world are deprived of education. The UN agency said in a fresh report today that there was a need to increase the budget for educational equality between men and women and such action should be implemented More
Representatives from 40 countries will attend a summit that kicked off in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday to discuss a set of common principles to end the war in Ukraine. The aim of the meeting is to draft key principles on how to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Al-Jazeera reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on More
Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been arrested by police after a court found him guilty of “corrupt practices” and sentenced him to three years in prison. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman was arrested by Punjab police from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore shortly after the Islamabad court ruled Khan’s dishonesty had been More
At least 23 people have been killed and six others went missing when a boat capsized in a lake in Philippine, according to a media report on Friday. The accident happened in the early afternoon on Thursday at Laguna Lake, near Manila, hours after Typhoon Doksuri had swept out of the northern part of the More
On World Drowning Prevention Day, the World Health Organization says almost 236,000 people die of drowning every year globally. Every year in Afghanistan, as the weather warms up, the number of deaths due to drowning in rivers increases because young people and teenagers go for swimming in summer. Several people have drowned and died in More
At least 31 people have died after torrential rains triggered deadly flash floods and landslides in South Korea, media reports said on Sunday. The death toll from the flash floods raised to 31 with five bodies of people who were trapped under a tunnel submerged by firefighting authorities said, Reuters reported. The five people were More
Despite significant progress against hunger made by developing Asia over 300 million people were still food insecure, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Saturday. ADB in its review report said: “In the past two decades, developing Asia has made significant progress in its fight against hunger, lifting more than 200 million people from undernourishment. This More
Seven people have been killed and 10 others injured in the collapse of a three-storey hotel located in Pakistan’s central province of Punjab. The private hotel on the busy Grand Trunk Road in Jhelum city collapsed following a gas cylinder explosion on Sunday, local officials said. At least seven bodies have been retrieved from the More
