The first Test between New Zealand and Pakistan is scheduled to go head this week after engineers checked the safety of the Christchurch cricket venue following a massive earthquake that rattled the centre of the country early on Monday. The powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake pummelled central New Zealand's South Island, killing at least two people, damaging roads and buildings and setting off hundreds of strong aftershocks. It was felt strongly in Christchurch, South Island's largest city, which was hit by a 6.3 quake in 2011 that killed 185 people.
Three teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were sent to provide help to the quake-hit region on February 7 following Prime Minister Modi's directive to offer all possible assistance under 'Operation Dost'.
India has sent to Turkey two plane-loads of relief materials and medical teams for survivors of the devastating earthquake that killed over 5,000 people.
A powerful earthquake shook a large portion of southern Indonesia on Wednesday killing at least 15 people, injuring dozens and levelling a large number of houses and buildings. The 7.0 magnitude quake that struck at 2.55 pm local time off the southern coast of the island of Java, also triggered landslides leaving several houses buried.
A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the richter scale rocked the Iran-Pakistan border on Tuesday, tremors of which were experienced in North India, including New Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab.
The immediate challenge facing Indian firms will be the consolidation that will take place in the Western financial services industry as leading firms go belly up and are quickly taken over by the handful of firms which have not lost either their capital or the ability to raise fresh funds. The consolidation in the industry will affect not just its own staffing but also the vendors. With severe cuts in budgets all round, outsourcing spend is likely to be affected.
Tremors were felt in Delhi and adjoining satellite townships on Wednesday afternoon for the third time in a fortnight. The epicenter of the quake, measuring 5.8 on the Richter Scale at around 12.30 pm, was located on the border between Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, the MeT Department said.
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With his face crushed beyond recognition, Gaud was identified with a tattoo of the word 'Om' on one of his hands, his family said quoting Indian embassy officials.
The government on Monday decided to immediately dispatch search and rescue teams of the National Disaster Response Force, medical teams and relief material to earthquake-hit Turkey following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's instructions to offer all possible assistance to the country.
Seattle football fans erupted in cheers so raucous early in the Monday night match-up against the New Orleans Saints that their jumping up and down registered as a minor earthquake, local media reported.
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'...that he was in talks with the SS-UBT and would return if his ministry was snatched away and given to one of the NCP ministers.'
When the deadly earthquake battered Nepal last week, major temples in Kathmandu' Darbar Square were razed to the ground, but the home of a nine-year-old girl worshipped as a living goddess remained almost unscathed.
ISRO chairman S Somanath said the success gave the space agency "greater confidence," as the GSLV will be next deployed in the NISAR mission, a collaborative effort with the US' NASA.
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Japan's meteorological agency has reported that the quake struck at local time of 2.46 pm, some 80 miles off the country's east coast and at a depth of around eight kilometers
Bhalla's account was echoed by a cross-section of residents of Delhi-NCR after a 6.6 magnitude temblor on Tuesday night was felt across large swathes of northern India as the earthquake struck the Hindukush region in Afghanistan.
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Malik's escape from Pakistan back to the valley via Nepal led him into the dragnet as police had prior information about his movement.
The death toll from an earthquake in Turkey and Syria has passed 11,000, making the quake the deadliest in more than a decade.
A major earthquake of 7.2 magnitude hit Baja California in Mexico, shaking skyscrapers in San Diego and Los Angeles, whose strong tremors were felt as far as Phoenix and Las Vegas as well.The immediate impact of the earthquake on people and buildings were not immediately known. The quake was centred approximately 25 kilometre south-southwest of Guadalupe Victoria, the United States geological survey said.
Real Madrid football star Cristiano Ronaldo has donated a whopping 7 million euros ($7.78m) to the Save the Children foundation's efforts in Nepal following the deadly earthquake last month.
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Addressing soldiers in Lepcha after celebrating Diwali with security personnel stationed near the border, Modi said the circumstances of the world are such that the expectations from India are constantly rising.
Rediff.com looks at the devastattion caused by the earthquake in Turkey
'Deaths, sick and injured people in the affected areas and worried fellow citizens elsewhere in Turkiye, it's a living nightmare for us'
At least 15 people were killed on Saturday when a powerful 7.2-magnitude aftershock struck areas of southwest Pakistan devastated by a massive earthquake that claimed over 500 lives earlier this week.
A theory put forward by geologists of Madras University say earthquakes can be predicted by studying the alignment of the earth with the sun, moon and other planets.
Members of the Algerian rescue team search for survivors at the site of a damaged building after the earthquake in Turkey.
A major earthquake measuring about 6.0 rattled offices on Tuesday in the US capital Washington and led to panicked evacuations at the Indian embassy and in as far away as New York.
JLR is the latest in the list of companies which have announced a likely impact on operations due to crunch in auto component supplies from Japan.
"I think loss and damage will be not less than Rs one lakh crore. We will assess thoroughly the loss of properties," Chamling said at a press conference in Gangtok.
The death toll in the bordering Himalayan state of Sikkim due to Sunday's mega earthquake and subsequent landslides is still mounting while over 300 have been hospitalised even as rescue and damage repair operations have been hampered by incessant rains that has been continuing for the last four days.
The number of dead and missing in China's worst earthquake in recent decades is nearing 90,000, as visiting United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon flew into the disaster zone on Saturday and pledged the world body's support for the relief work. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao briefed the UN Secretary General on quake relief efforts and said China would carry out reconstruction as soon as possible. Wen told Ban that the quake had claimed more than 60,000 lives in Sichuan province.
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