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August 27, 2026 12:46 PM
Dolly Parton was around six when she wrote her first song: "Little Tiny Tasseltop," an ode to her corncob doll with corn-silk hair. Her mother stored it preciously in a shoebox. "I loved that little doll," Parton wrote decades later. "I expressed my...
August 27, 2026 12:29 PM
India on Thursday sent a second tranche of relief supplies in a military transport aircraft to flood-ravaged Nepal. New Delhi on Wednesday dispatched 10 tonnes of HADR (Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief) materials to the neighbouring count...
August 27, 2026 12:27 PM
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday condoled the loss of lives in the floods in Nepal and Tibet. Since this region has seen calamities in the past as well, these are certainly symptoms of a deeper underlying cause, whether climate ch...
August 27, 2026 12:28 PM
The in-form Sonal Dinusha and Keshara Nuwantha led Sri Lanka's fightback as the hosts stretched their lead to 116 runs at lunch on the final day of the second Test against India here on Thursday. Resuming on the overnight score of 229 for six, the d...
August 27, 2026 12:17 PM
Nepal on Thursday said that more than 800 people, including nearly 580 tourists, were missing in the massive flash floods that swept through the country, leaving 165 dead. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) in a s...
August 27, 2026 12:12 PM
Czech pair Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik beat Switzerland's Belinda Bencic and Italian Flavio Cobolli 6-3 1-6 10-6 on Wednesday to win the U.S. Open mixed doubles title, securing their first Grand Slam trophy as a team. Muchova and Mensik got of...
August 27, 2026 11:58 AM
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has expressed solidarity with Nepal following the devastating floods that claimed 162 lives and left hundreds, including security personnel and tourists, missing, saying the United States is ready to provide humanita...
August 27, 2026 11:58 AM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "saddened" by the flooding in "Nepal and China" in which 162 people died, and hundreds from around the world are missing, and has offered the world organisation's help for the relief efforts. In a post on X, ...
August 27, 2026 11:57 AM
Nearly 300 Indian tourists are among thousands who are reportedly missing after a flash flood swept through parts of the Nepal-Tibet border, Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal said on Thursday. The flash floods on Wednesday wreaked havoc across three di...
August 27, 2026 11:56 AM
The Nepal flash floods were triggered by a glacial collapse and not by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake as reported earlier, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The USGS said additional analysis of the long-period seismic waves indicated that the tremor...
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