landslides

Shazia Mehboob  Islamabad: Pakistan is increasingly at the forefront of nations grappling with the severe impacts of climate change. The country's dependence on monsoon rains and the Indus Basin glaciers renders it highly vulnerable to…

AFP/APP Kathmandu: More than 60 people are missing in Nepal after a landslide triggered by heavy rains swept two buses off a highway and into a river, authorities said. Dozens of search and rescue personnel were combing the site for…

AFP  India: Six people have been killed in floods precipitated by torrential rains across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh that inundated the homes of more than a million others, officials said Wednesday.  Monsoon rains…

AFP/APP Beijing: At least four people were killed when record rains hit parts of southern China, state media reported Tuesday, while more than a dozen were missing even as the north baked under some of its highest temperatures this year.…

AFP/APP San Salvador: Thirteen people have died in flooding and landslides in El Salvador and Guatemala as heavy rains pound Central America, authorities from the two countries said. In El Salvador, the hardest hit country so far,…

AA/APP New Delhi: The death toll in India and Bangladesh from powerful Cyclone Remal, which struck over the weekend, has risen to 55, according to officials. Of the total 40 deaths reported across several states in India, around 27…

AFP/APP Port Moresby: It is "very unlikely" more survivors of Papua New Guinea's deadly landslide will be found, a UN agency warned Tuesday, as thousands at risk from further slips were ordered to evacuate. Some 2,000 people are…

APP Islamabad: The City Traffic Police (CTP) have imposed a ban on the entry of heavy vehicles and put in diversions to facilitate traffic, following landslides on old Murree-Kashmir Road during rain on Tuesday. The CTP spokesman said…

AFP/APP Jakarta: At least 19 people have been found dead and two more are missing after a landslide in central Indonesia, local authorities said on Sunday.  The dead and two survivors were evacuated from two landslide-hit villages in…

Xinhua/APP Manila: The death toll in a massive landslide that crashed into villages in Davao de Oro province in the southern Philippines has climbed to 35 from 27, with 77 others remaining missing, authorities said on Sunday. The Maco…