Sharjah: TheBrew’s Feature Editor Babar Siddiqui interviewed UAE-based filmmaker Faisal Hashmi about his journey in filmmaking, shooting the floods in Pakistan and more, press play to hear from him. About Faisal Hashmi Awarded ‘Independent Filmmaker of the Year’ by Digital Studio Magazine, Faisal Hashmi is a UAE-based independent freelance filmmaker with a number of award-winning […]
Islamabad: First responders in southern Pakistan are scrambling to evacuate millions of people from remote villages as the region nervously awaited the arrival of rainwater flowing from the country’s north, officials said. According to the German press agency (dpa), the rescue efforts in the province of Sindh, which has been the worst hit province in a […]
Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in storm-battered parts of the Philippines Wednesday as the third typhoon in as many weeks barrelled towards the country. Vamco was expected to graze Catanduanes Island — which was devastated by Typhoon Goni less than two weeks ago — before making landfall on the most populous island […]
Tropical Storm Eta spun through northern Nicaragua Wednesday after lashing the country’s Caribbean coast for much of the past day, its floodwaters isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides that killed at least three people. The storm had weakened from the Category 4 hurricane that battered the coast, but it was moving so […]
Dubbed the “Manhattan of the desert” for its centuries-old skyscrapers, Yemen’s ancient city of Shibam escaped damage in the civil war — but faces collapse from disrepair amid rains and floods. Against a backdrop of cliffs looking like America’s Grand Canyon, the UNESCO-listed World Heritage site is strategically built on a rocky spur high above […]
Sheets of rain and a barrage of floods, resulted in over 30 deaths in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, the downpour wreaking havoc in Karnataka. Waterlogged roads and swept-away dwellings, saw 10 people killed in various incidents across Andhra Pradesh in the last 48 hours. Many died in Hyderabad after walls and houses collapsed […]
After over a month-and-a-half, fresh floods in five Assam districts have affected 1.79 lakh people besides killing one person, officials of Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said on Saturday. The ASDMA official said that in the third wave of floods, around 1.79 lakh people were affected in 155 villages on Saturday while one person […]
