Harshgiri Lake Resort Near Shahpur Pakistan

Once an ideal tourist resort, Langh Lake vanishing due to official neglect

DADU: Once a picturesque hunting retreat frequented by many dignitaries, Langh Lake, which also serves as a stopover for around 20,000 migratory birds in their journey from Siberia to India, has become a faded picture of its rich past and a tale of gross official neglect...

The lake, which is supposed to be looked after by relevant provincial departments, has almost hidden from public view due to unchecked and unabated growth of wild...

Volcanic eruption near Japanese resort triggers avalanche; one killed, several injured

A Japanese soldier was killed on Tuesday after a volcano erupted near a popular Japanese ski resort, sparking an avalanche that left several injured and scores stranded up a mountain, officials said...

“Black smoke rose from the top of the mountain and we were told to evacuate inside 30 minutes later,” a man who was at the ski resort told public broadcaster NHK...

Wildfire near French resort kills 2, forces tourists to flee

LE LUC: Hundreds of firefighters struggled for a third day on Wednesday to contain France’s worst wildfire of the summer near the glitzy Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez which has left two dead and forced thousands of residents and tourists to flee...

The fire near Saint-Tropez has scorched some 5,000 hectares in a region known for its forests, vineyards and fauna since it broke out in the Plaine des Maures nature reserve on Monday...

IHC asks CDA to file report on construction of Navy Club near lake

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday sou­ght an explanation from the chairman of the Capital Deve­lopment Authority (CDA) over the construction of a club near Rawal Lake...

The court issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a citizen against the construction of the Navy Club and denial of citizens’ access to the lake...

‘There should be a resort on Indo-Pakistan no man’s land’

KARACHI: It pains me to know that relatives living on both sides of the Indo-Pakistan border cannot easily meet each other...

Authorities should make a resort on no man’s land and allow them to meet...

Five dead as gunmen attack Ivory Coast beach resort

GRAND BASSAM: At least five people were killed on Sunday when heavily-armed gunmen opened fire in the Ivory Coast resort town of Grand-Bassam, leaving bodies strewn on the beach...

“At the moment there are five dead,” a military source said after the assault in the resort popular with Westerners...

KP’s biggest picnic resort in a shambles for seven years

The biggest recreational picnic resort of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, once the most beautiful and frequented Kund National Park, was destroyed in the flashfloods of July 2010...

Rehman Said, the manager of Kund National Park, told this scribe that the biggest picnic resort of the province faced several problems...

Swat’s tourist resort turns into garbage dump

MINGORA: The waste and garbage dumping site along the Swat River in Ogdai village near Mingora has polluted the river and created environmental hazards, complain the local elders...

They said that the area was once a tourist resort as people would enjoy its pleasant weather, tasty peaches, juicy apples and fresh strawberries...

Tourist resort in Nagarparkar opens

KARACHI: The Sindh culture and tourism ministry has opened the Rooplo Kolhi Resort at Nagarparkar, which it described as the first of its many projects aimed at promoting tourism in the province, officials said on Sunday...

“This resort has been built at the foothills of the Karoonjhar Mountains in Thar Desert, which will serve a great deal to tourism, especially people from other parts of Sindh and the rest of the country,” said a...

Two foreigners stabbed to death at beach resort in Egypt

CAIRO: Two foreign women were killed on Friday and four others were wounded when an assailant stabbed them at an Egyptian beach resort in the Sinai Peninsula, officials said...

The governor of Red Sea province, where the resort of Hurghada is located, said two “foreign residents” of the city were killed in the attack, a cabinet statement said...

Suspected jihadists attack tourist resort in Mali capital

BAMAKO: Suspected jihadists stormed a tourist resort popular with Westerners outside the Malian capital Bamako on Sunday, the country’s security ministry said...

Security forces were battling the attackers at the Kangaba resort after the assault, with nearby residents reporting hearing shots while smoke billowed into the air, with at least one building ablaze...

Explosions, gunshots heard at resort in Philippines capital

Gunfire was reported at a hotel and a casino resort in the Philippine capital on Friday, the operator of the complex said, and the militant Islamic State group (IS) quickly claimed responsibility...

Hollywood stars launch $3.2 bn casino resort

2 billion casino and entertainment resort on Tuesday, as the southern Chinese enclave’s high-roller gambling business takes a hit from Beijing’s corruption crackdown...

Studio City’s opening was marked by the premiere of “The Audition”, a short movie promoting the resort, directed by Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese and starring DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Brad Pitt...

Indian troops resort to unprovoked firing along working boundary

Parekh of India's BSF as saying that Pakistani troops fired heavy mortar shells, adding that one woman was killed and three other civilians injured when one of the shells exploded near a border village...

The Himalayan territory of Kashmir, which is the main contention, between the two countries, is divided between India and Pakistan by the UN-monitored de facto border of LoC...

Toddler's body found after gator attack in Disney Orlando resort

ORLANDO: A US family's desperate search for their toddler son, who was snatched by an alligator off the shore of a lake at a Disney resort, ended Wednesday when divers found the two-year-old's body in murky water...

Walt Disney World said it has shut down all of its Florida resort beaches and marinas out of precaution after the incident — the first such death in its 45-year history...