DHAKA : The head of an official inquiry into the collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said Wednesday the building’s owner was the “main culprit” in the disaster because he violated building codes.The cave-in of the nine-storey factory complex outside the capital last month ...

SAVAR : Bangladesh plans to take over the site of the collapsed nine-storey building which killed 1,127 people and convert it into a rehabilitation centre for the victims, a minister said Tuesday.“Our prime minister (Sheikh Hasina) wants this place to be taken over by the government and ...

DHAKA  A top investigator probing last week's garment factory disaster in Bangladesh on Friday blamed vibrations from four illegal generators for the collapse of the building which killed more than 500 workers.The preliminary findings of the government probe, as described by lead investigator ...

KHARTOUM Around 100 miners are estimated to have died inside a collapsed gold mine in Sudan’s Darfur region and nine rescuers trying to free them are now trapped, a miner said on Friday.“Nine of the rescue team disappeared when the land collapsed around them yesterday (Thursday),” ...

DHAKA - Bangladesh defended Tuesday its decision to snub foreign aid after the collapse of a garment factory complex where at least 388 people died as the UN revealed it had offered specialist help to find survivors. With the death toll from the country's worst ever industrial disaster still ...

DHAKAThousands of Bangladeshi garment workers walked out of their factories Monday, demanding the death penalty for the owner of a tower block that collapsed and killed at least 381 of their colleagues.Managers at all of the country's 4,500 garment factories had given workers an unscheduled two ...

SAVAR, Bangladesh Bangladesh Saturday made a series of arrests over the collapse of a factory complex which killed at least 341 as rescuers braved the stench of rotting corpses to detect further signs of life. Twenty-three people were pulled alive Saturday morning from the ruins of the eight-storey ...

GENEVA  - Global losses from natural disasters hit $138 billion in 2012, with half the sum claimed by drought and Hurricane Sandy in the United States, the UN said Thursday. Hurricane Sandy, which lashed the US east coast in October, caused some $50 billion of the losses recorded in 2012, the ...

The ills mentioned by Hashim Abro in his above titled letter are because of lack of storage capacity on our rivers. 88 percent of the river flow takes place in the three flood months and brings about disastrous floods. Only 12 percent of the flow takes place in the remaining nine months and brings ...

PESHAWAR - The fourth National Disaster Management Exhibition began at Sheikh Muhammad Taimur Academic Block, University of Peshawar here on Wednesday. As many as 51 stalls are on display in the two-day event from the national and international institutions, and organizations, dealing disaster ...

The late arrival of monsoon rains in KPK and Punjab has brought disaster to the poor once again despite promises from the government that very strict plans had been formulated to face the monsoon rains this year. The minister for Climate Change, Rana Farooq is requesting people to pray. Is that a ...

KARACHI - Despite heavy floods in 2010 and 2011 and prediction of about 15 percent more rains during 2012 monsoon season, disaster preparedness , contingency planning and humanitarian relief are the lowest budgeted and lowest funded sectors at provincial and district level in Sindh province.This ...

ISLAMABAD – Observing unsatisfactory foreign aid response during the last year floods, NDMA is planning to make ‘National Disaster Insurance Cell’, which also may not fully cater difficulties during expected floods in the country by the start of monsoon rains.National Disaster ...

 Yet another passenger aircraft of another private sector airline “Shaheen Airline” escaped a major disaster at Karachi airport as its tyre burst while landing here on Sunday. The pilot managed a safe landing and the passengers remained safe.According to details, Shaheen airline ...

AKBAR AHMEDThe behaviour of the powerful elite of Islamabad reminds me of the captain and crew of the RMS Titanic sailing into the night, heading straight towards an iceberg. The civilian, military and judicial authorities are locked up in a tussle coloured by political positions and personal egos. ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan upgraded its month-old nuclear emergency to a maximum seven on an international scale of atomic crises Tuesday, placing it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster a quarter-century ago. The reassessment to a major accident with widespread health and environmental effects was based ...

GENEVA (AFP) - The French have been credited with inventing the bidet and popularising pissoirs or public urinals, and now they can add the biodegradable and portable toilet to their name. Frenchman Mayer Helewa designed the lightweight, easy to construct and carry toilet after Hurricane Katrina, ...

THE world is edging closer to overpopulation Armageddon as swelling cities drain the planet of its vital resources, a report warns Wednesday. Population growth, especially in newly developing countries, is the 'defining challenge of the 21st century. It represents a greater potential threat than ...

Cheryl Cole no longer plucks her eyebrows after her friends believed she had had Botox injections when she was over-zealous with her tweezers. Cheryl Coles friends thought she had had Botox when she over-plucked her eyebrows. The 'Promise This singer no longer tends to her own brows after her ...

ISLAMABAD (PPI) - President Pakistan Muslim (PML-Q Like Minded) and Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Senator Salim Saifullah Khan has said that Pakistan energy crisis are becoming critical and Pakistan economic condition is on the brink of disaster ...

LONDON (AFP) - BPs vilified chief executive Tony Hayward resigned Tuesday as the British oil giant revealed the Gulf of Mexico disaster will cost over 32 billion dollars after causing a record quarterly loss. Hayward, whose PR gaffes handling the oil spill made him a target of US fury, will be ...

QUETTA - A terror attempt to derail the Chiltan Express failed as an explosion damaged the railway track near the provincial capital early Saturday morning. Official sources said the planted device exploded when Faisalabad-bound Chiltan Express was reached near Killi Zari in Sariab area. However, ...

LAHORE - A PIA's Manchester-bound flight PK 7012 with over 385 passengers escaped a major disaster on 26 April, 2010, as it was taking off from the Islamabad airport. The Boeing Jumbo while taking off scrapped the runway barrier installed on runway 12 end, sources in CAA Islamabad confided to The ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - For thousands of years, humanity has been aware of the importance of water as humans can survive without water only for a few days. Sensing the need of water in future, experts and politicians have been calling for building more and more water reservoirs. While an Indian water ...

ISLAMABAD While averting a possible disaster in Federal Capital, CID police recovered 800 kg explosive materials from suburb area of Islamabad besides arresting three key members of a banned militants outfit. Police sources said that CID police on Saturday raided at a house situated in New Abadi, ...

LISBON (AFP) - Hollywood bad girl Lindsay Lohans first collection as artistic advisor for Emanuel Ungaro was a disaster, the founder of the French couture house said here, local press reported. Lindsay Lohans collaboration was a disaster, the designer said during a meeting on Monday night with the ...

LAHORE - Peshawar bound Flight PK 350 made emergency landing at Allama Iqbal International Airport (AIIA) due to engine failure at 10:15 pm on Sunday. The said flight had flown from Karachi for Peshawar but when it reached near Lahore, one of its two engines failed due to which pilot was directed ...

Heather Graham gave her co-stars food poisoning. The blonde star invited a group of actresses who were also appearing in 2001 movie 'From Hell to dinner one evening after filming, only for at least one of her guests to fall ill immediately afterwards. Welsh actress Joanna Page revealed: Heather ...

KARACHI - Renowned economist Dr Shahid Hassan Siddiqui has described Kerry-Lugar Act (KLA) as disastrous from the financial point of view and therefore it must be rejected, as the explanatory note attached to the Act has no meaning. In an exclusive interview with The Nation on Saturday, he said, ...

NUKUALOFA (AFP) - At least 66 people were feared dead Friday after a ferry disaster in Tonga which the prime minister described as devastating for the tiny Pacific kingdom. As grieving relatives gathered at the wharf in the capital Nukualofa, singing hymns for comfort and expressing anger the ...