Nepal Relief Camps

Police in riot gear stood guard on Tuesday as Nepali civic officials used bulldozers to tear down a relief camp in the capital for victims of the 2015 earthquake, in a bid to force people to return to their home villages.

In the just-concluded 'Operation Maitri' in the quake-hit Nepal, Indian Air Force and Army flew 2,223 sorties, shifted about 11,200 people to safer places and transported and dropped about 1,700 tonnes of relief material.

When transgender woman Maya K C sought help at a relief camp in the ruins of Nepal's capital after a devastating earthquake, she was quickly made to feel as though she did not belong.

Problems including discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have prompted charities to set up 15 relief camps for sexual minorities.

Supriya is sleeping serenely tucked in a red dupatta, lying in her grandmother's arms at the Tudikhel relief camp in Kathmandu. She is barely a few hours old, the white hospital tag still visible on her tiny hand.

At Kathmandu's biggest relief camp at Tudikhel grounds, a hot wind has blown away one leg of Binda Gupta's tent. Her brother tries to fix it unsuccessfully.

At a relief camp in Kathmandu, a group of volunteers quietly go from tent to tent, writing the names of the children they meet, their parents' names and phone numbers and then slip the chit into the child's pocket.

Nepal Prime Minster Sushil Koirala was heckled today at a Kathmandu relief camp as angry survivors of Saturdays devastating earthquake demanded that relief coming in from foreign countries be made available to them.

25-year-old Firoz Alam waited for over two hours at a relief camp in Bihar's Raxaul town on the border with Nepal, for a two-minute meeting with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday.

For about 70 climbers on Mount Everest base camp, hit by the devastating earthquake in Nepal, Captain Ritesh Goel of the Indian Army was a life saver.

About 30,000 evacuated villagers in Bihar began returning home on Tuesday after the threat of floods due to a landslide in neighbouring Nepal eased, but 100,000 remained in relief camps, government officials said.

Police in riot gear stood guard on Tuesday as Nepali civic officials used bulldozers to tear down a relief camp in the capital for victims of the 2015 earthquake, in a bid to force people to return to their home villages.

In the just-concluded 'Operation Maitri' in the quake-hit Nepal, Indian Air Force and Army flew 2,223 sorties, shifted about 11,200 people to safer places and transported and dropped about 1,700 tonnes of relief material.

When transgender woman Maya K C sought help at a relief camp in the ruins of Nepal's capital after a devastating earthquake, she was quickly made to feel as though she did not belong.

Problems including discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have prompted charities to set up 15 relief camps for sexual minorities.

Supriya is sleeping serenely tucked in a red dupatta, lying in her grandmother's arms at the Tudikhel relief camp in Kathmandu. She is barely a few hours old, the white hospital tag still visible on her tiny hand.

At Kathmandu's biggest relief camp at Tudikhel grounds, a hot wind has blown away one leg of Binda Gupta's tent. Her brother tries to fix it unsuccessfully.

At a relief camp in Kathmandu, a group of volunteers quietly go from tent to tent, writing the names of the children they meet, their parents' names and phone numbers and then slip the chit into the child's pocket.

Nepal Prime Minster Sushil Koirala was heckled today at a Kathmandu relief camp as angry survivors of Saturdays devastating earthquake demanded that relief coming in from foreign countries be made available to them.

25-year-old Firoz Alam waited for over two hours at a relief camp in Bihar's Raxaul town on the border with Nepal, for a two-minute meeting with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday.

For about 70 climbers on Mount Everest base camp, hit by the devastating earthquake in Nepal, Captain Ritesh Goel of the Indian Army was a life saver.

About 30,000 evacuated villagers in Bihar began returning home on Tuesday after the threat of floods due to a landslide in neighbouring Nepal eased, but 100,000 remained in relief camps, government officials said.