Parts of a mountain collapsed Friday in the remote province of Enga. PM Modi says India ‘ready to offer all possible support and assistance’ to the country.
More than 72 hours after the landslide residents are still using spades, sticks and their bare hands to try and shift the debris and reach any survivors.
The agency based its death toll estimates on information provided by officials at Yambali Village in Enga province, who say more than 150 houses were buried in Friday’s landslide.
More than 50 homes, many with people still asleep inside, were buried when the landslide hit Kaokalam village, which is in Enga province, about 600km north of capital Port Moresby.
A defence agreement signed in May will allow US forces to refurbish and develop infrastructure for military and civilian use at Papua New Guinea seaports and airports.
A separate agreement would increase maritime surveillance of PNG's exclusive economic zone through U.S. Coast Guard patrols, protecting its economy from illegal fishing.
Even the fastest woman alive, Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, can’t avoid all the logistical hurdles along the road to this year’s extraordinary Olympics.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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