New Zealand Police has said that no more survivors were expected to be rescued from the sudden volcanic eruption incident on Monday, suggesting the death of around 24 tourists.

At least nine people have been reported dead after a fire broke out at Hotel Arpit Palace in Delhi’s Karol Bagh in the wee hours of Tuesday.

13 miners, who were trapped inside a flooded illegal coal mine in Meghalaya, have been feared dead, said a news report. All efforts to pump out water from the mine failed in yielding any positive result. However, a massive rescue operation is still going on with more than 100 people pressed into action.

The death toll due to the severe cyclone Gaja that devastated several districts in Tamil Nadu two days ago has risen to 45 and damaged 117,624 houses, Chief Minister K. Palaniswami said in Sunday.

Even as the deadly deluge in Kerala continued to take a toll of life and property across the state -- with the number of deaths rising to 87 on Thursday -- the Centre has deployed all three wings of the armed forces in a massive rescue operation that is currently underway.

An operation was underway on Tuesday to evacuate thousands of tourists who were stranded after a deadly earthquake jolted Indonesia's Lombok Island killing 98 people and injuring over 200 others.

Divers and rescue workers in Thailand on Tuesday resumed an operation to free the four remaining boys and their coach still trapped in a cave in the country's remote north.

Nine trekkers have died in a forest fire on the Kurangani Hills in Tamil Nadu, the District Collector said on Monday.

A boat with at least 40 students on board capsized off the Dahanu coast in Maharashtra on Saturday, an official said. Following a massive search and rescue operation, 32 of them were saved from the Arabian Sea.

Indian Army on Tuesday rescued over 217 students and 15 teachers stuck in three schools due to heavy shelling by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir.