CLEARLAKE OAKS, June 24: Wind-driven wildfires destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others Sunday as they raced across dry brush in rural Northern California.

JUMLA, June 13: Almost all government and non-government organizations in Jumla district do not have disabled-friendly office buildings. Most of the offices are located on the second floor, making it difficult for people with disabilities to get access.

JHAPA, June 4: The local government here in Jhapa is preparing to construct buildings for 19 vaccination centres.

ITAHARI, April 28: A massive fire tore through the Ghana Bazaar at Paruhang intersection in Itahari sub metropolitan city – 4 of Sunsari district destroying four houses and inflicting a loss of around Rs 10 million last night.

MORANG, Feb 1: The government has allocated 70 million rupees for the repair and maintenance of the office buildings to be used by the top officials of Province No 1.

RASUWA, Jan 30: With the implementation of federal set up, most of the government offices at the district headquarters will cease to exist starting 11 April. Surprisingly, many such offices are adding new buildings in their premises.

PAANCHTHAR, Jan 24: Several government buildings in Panchthar have been found built spending large amount of money against the standards and criteria set by the government. The designs of many under-construction buildings in the district headquarters Phidim are yet to be approved.

NEW YORK, Oct 17: From a Syrian bazaar and the last active synagogue in Alexandria, to England’s Blackpool Piers and Alabama civil rights buildings, historical gems around the globe are threatened by war, disasters and urbanization, a monument conservation group said on Monday.  Days after the United States and Israel said that they were quitting UN cultural agency UNESCO, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced 25 of the world’s at-risk places on its biennial watch list.

KATHMANDU, Sept 24: The Shanti Education Initiative Nepal (SEI) under its project ‘Post Earthquake Reconstruction/Renovation of Schools 2015-16’, has handed over two newly constructed school buildings to Shree Basuki Secondary School, Mahalaxmi Municipality-10, Lalitpur amid an event organized on Thursday.

KOS, July 21: A powerful earthquake shook the Greek island of Kos early Friday morning, damaging several buildings and the main port, killing at least two people and causing more than 120 injuries, authorities said.

POKHARA, June 8: Pokhara-Lekhnath Metropolis and Pokhara Valley Municipal Development Committee (PVMDC) are jointly preparing to crack down on illegal buildings and buildings constructed in violation of the building code.

ACHHAM, May 25: Government office buildings destroyed during the Maoist insurgency are yet to be reconstructed here. The then Maoist rebels had destroyed around two dozen government office buildings in the district headquarters Mangalsen and Sanphebagar during the conflict period. One of these offices, buildings of the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS) sub- division office in Sanphebagar and the Agricultural Inputs Company Limited's (AICL) office, are yet to be reconstructed.

KATHMANDU, March 31: More than 1,800 health posts across the country are operating without proper buildings, curbing their ability to offer efficient healthcare services.

BEIRUT, Feb 25:  Twin attacks on two Syrian security offices in the central city of Homs Saturday killed at least 32 people, including a senior security official who heads the feared Military Intelligence services, state media and officials reported.

KATHMANDU, Dec 24: Chaudhary Foundation (CF) has handed over 266 transitional shelter homes (under CG Ashraya) and two school buildings (under CG Shikshyalaya) in earthquake-affected areas in Dhading district. The homes were built for quake-affected communities of Baseri, which was one of the most-affected VDCs in last year’s earthquake.

TOKYO, Dec 22;  A fire whipped by high winds has spread to at least 140 buildings in a small Japanese city on the Japan Sea coast.

DOLAKHA, Dec 6: Students enrolled at more than 300 schools in Dolakha district are forced to attend classes at temporary education centers due to the delay in post-quake reconstruction of the damaged school buildings.

ROME, Oct 27: A pair of strong aftershocks shook central Italy late Wednesday, crumbling churches and buildings, knocking out power and sending panicked residents into the rain-drenched streets just two months after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 300 people.

DOTI, July 14: Most of the health posts in Doti district are in such dilapidated conditions that when it starts to rain, it immediately starts dripping from their roof and when it sunny, the heat inside the building is unbearable.

KATHMANDU, July 2: Two students were killed and 17 others injured when  a compound wall caved in at Pushpanjali Secondary School at Badegaun of Godawari Municipality, Lalitpur district on Friday.