by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 7, 2025 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
The quake hit at 9:05 a.m. (0105 GMT), with its epicentre located in Tingri, a rural Chinese county known as the northern gateway to the Everest region, at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre. The U.S. Geological Service put...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 28, 2024 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Authority (NDRRMA) also issued warnings for 56 out of 77 districts about possible disasters advising people to exercise caution Kathmandu [Nepal]: At least 66 people have been killed in Nepal since early on Friday as...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 7, 2024 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Features, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Technology
In a 2023 safety report, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said collision with terrain or another obstacle was the main risk, accounting for 93% of deaths in air accidents in the prior decade On July 22, 2024, eighteen people were killed in Nepal when a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 7, 2024 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
The four passengers are Chinese nationals, and the pilot is a Nepali man, police said. No further details were immediately available KATHMANDU: A helicopter crashed in a forest outside Nepal’s capital Kathmandu shortly after takeoff on Wednesday, killing all...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 24, 2024 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
The plane caught fire after skidding off the runway at Kathmandu airport and crashing into a field east of the runway,” the airport official added Kathmandu: A private airlines’ Pokhara-bound plane crashed during takeoff at the Tribhuvan International...