With 20 more bodies recovered in quake hit Sikkim since last night, the toll mounted to 73 on Wednesday amidst fears that the casualty could go up significantly as the rescue party were yet to reach about 15 major villages in worst hit North district. Official sources said members of the rescue party found six bodies ...
INDIAN NUCLEAR PLANT TARAPUR LEAKED - 4 died, 10 injuired -- Doorstepnews team is Updating news stay tunned -- Four industrial workers died after inhaling hydrogen sulphide gas that leaked from a chemical factory in Tarapur on Tuesday evening. Seven other workers were taken to the hospital. The leak occurred on the premises of SeQuent Scientific Ltd, ...
Rescue workers dug through mudslides as they struggled Monday to reach thousands of villagers cut off by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 53 people and damaged more than 100,000 homes in mountainous northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet. Heavy rains slowed the relief effort and made conditions miserable for many homeless villagers as they prepared ...
Rescue workers raced Monday to clear roads blocked by mudslides as they scrambled to reach remote villages cut off after a powerful earthquake killed at least 50 people in northeast India, Nepal and Tibet. Hundreds of paramilitary soldiers and local police working through the night cleared away concrete slabs, bricks and mud to rescue scores of ...
Panic gripped people in Uttar Pradesh when an earthquake said to be measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale with epicentre in Sikkim jolted north India at 6.17 pm on Sunday. The state Meteorological department described the quake as of "moderate intensity" in UP. It has not ruled out the possibility of after shocks. Earlier, on September 7, tremors had ...
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit northern India on Sunday, with epicentre in Sikkim. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage to buildings. According to the IMD, the epicentre of the quake, which struck at around 6:11pm, was located just over 60 kilometres northwest of the state capital Gangtok. Tremors were felt in Delhi and many ...
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi began his three-day 'sadbhavna' fast for peace and harmony in Ahmedabad on Saturday, starting the day by seeking his mother's blessings. His critics are calling it a political gimmick, some view it as Narendra Modi's attempt at an image makeover. On the other hand, the Gujarat Congress unit too begun its ...
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have detained the owner of a cyber cafe in connection with Wednesday's bomb attack in the Indian capital, Delhi. An email reportedly sent by the radical group Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (Huji) claiming it planted the bomb has been traced to the cyber cafe. The US state department says Huji is a terrorist group ...
A strong tremor lasting 5-6 seconds shook the capital at 11.28pm on Wednesday, forcing residents to run out of their houses in various parts of the city. The Met department said the quake measured 4.2 on the Richter scale and its epicenter was Sonipat in Haryana. There were no reports of damage to life and property ...
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