Tsunami alert as 7.5 magnitude tremor rocks Japan; 32K homes face power cut

After the powerful earthquake and aftershocks on Monday, more than 32,500 homes in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture are without power, CNN reported citing Hokuriku Electric Power. IMAGE: Road cracks......

What The World Looks Like At Mid-Year

The first five months of 2023 have witnessed at least six major events/trends that augur badly for global economic and socio-political prospects, points out Shankar Acharya, former chief economic......

Why India plans to build a space station

Once ISRO masters the technology to send humans into space, the next step will be experimenting with technologies allowing humans to live in space.T E Narasimhan reports. IMAGE: International......

From Tokyo to Paris, the heat is really on!

Images from across Europe and parts of Asia show hot and bothered people dunking their feet in buckets of ice and wading into the sea as sweltering temperatures put some areas on red......

Markets end lower after Shanghai Composite cracks over 6%

Benchmark share indices erased early gains to end lower, amid a volatile trading session, as investors booked profits after a sharp sell-off in Chinese shares. Further, forecast of a weak monsoon......

Sensex defies Greek bailout, reclaims 28,000

  The benchmark indices shrugged off the Greece uncertainty to end at around six-week highs on the back of strong May core sector growth back home and positive cues from the global market......

Skymet vs IMD: Who will get the monsoon forecast right?

The official India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the private Skymet Weather Services have made widely divergent monsoon forecasts. The IMD has said rainfall could be below normal at 93 per......

Expect worst drought in Asia, India may be hit

Dozens of farmers have already committed suicide in India after damage from unseasonal rains this year. Now if the summer rains are below normal, rural discontent will deepen. In 2009, the El Nino......

Heat headache for 2020 planners as Tokyo swelters a year before Games

IMAGE: A woman holding a sunshade walks past Olympic rings displayed at Nihonbashi district in Tokyo. Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters Soaring temperatures in Japan have killed at least 57......