Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed deep sorrow over the loss of lives and destruction caused by a powerful earthquake in the Mindanao region of the Philippines and reiterated India's support for the affected people and government.
A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake off southern Philippines killed 15 people and injured more than 129, triggering tsunami alerts across the region before Indonesia lifted its warning.
The death toll from two recent powerful typhoons that swept across the Philippines has climbed to 259, with millions of people displaced, authorities said on Wednesday.
The death toll in Typhoon Kalmaegi that has hit the Philippines since Sunday has climbed to 66, with 26 more missing, the country's Office of Civil Defence (OCD) said Wednesday.
Sarit Suwannarut kept the pedal to the metal, increasing his advantage on top of the leaderboard to four shots at the halfway stage of the US$22.22 million International Series Philippines, even as India's Gagamkeet Bhullar remained in the chasing pack and in contention for a top finish.
The Philippines registered 1,28,834 dengue cases with 337 deaths since January this year, the country's Department of Health (DOH) said on Wednesday.
The institute said the quake, which occurred at 6:22 a.m. local time, hit at a depth of 9 km, about 66 km northeast of Lingig, a coastal town, Xinhua news agency reported.
According to officials, the blast also damaged houses and commercial establishments near the warehouse
No doubt, India has not been sitting idle all this while. Besides QUAD, which is a formal strategic ‘partnership’, India has been forging strategic bilateral ‘partnerships’ with littoral democracies that are similarly under threat by an openly aggressive China, such as Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Mauritius, Seychelles, Malaysia etc.
In 1995, the Philippines had noticed strange Chinese military structures coming up on Mischief Reef in its Spratly Islands.
