A fresh fire broke out at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan in the wee hours of Wednesday, the BBC reported.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has admitted that there will be a long-term battle to stabilise Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The Japanese government has also indicated that it may take a long time before residents of towns and villages close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor are able to return to their homes.
Royal tragedies, loony vampires, nuclear disasters, scoop hunters becoming the story, all that and more on OTT this week.
Here's a peek into the future of auto and consumer electronics.
Bibhu Prasad Routray explains why the US is supporting Japan's resolve to release 'treated' radioactive waste water into the Pacific Ocean. And what role China plays in the US decision.
The concerns of people over farm products have led the government to instruct local authorities to halt the shipment of relevant produce if it is found contaminted with radioactive substances above the government regulated standards.
From the resurrected cash-for-votes scandal to a rigged process favouring four foreign vendors -- and from new safety concerns to the special legislation that caps the foreign suppliers' accident liability by burdening the Indian taxpayer -- the nuclear deal's future looks more troubled than ever, says Brahma Chellaney.
As Japan makes frantic efforts to deal with the nuclear radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the aftermath of earthquake and tsunami, Indian information technology firms have begun relocating the families of their Indian employees in the country.
The Japanese police, dressed in protective gear, on Thursday began searching for some 2,500 people missing within a 10-20 kilometre radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, which was crippled by the March 11 killer earthquake and tsunami.
Another explosion rocked the Fukushima nuclear power plant in northern Japan on Tuesday, as the country continued to face the threat of a nuclear meltdown.
Japan has decided to raise the severity level of the crisis at its tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the maximum seven on an international scale from the current status of five.
As Japan's earthquake and tsunami triggers the global nuclear industry's worst crisis, it is time for India to rethink it ambitious nuclear power programme, says Praful Bidwai
GE is also bullish on India's power sector and has chalked out plans in electricity generation from various sources such as wind, solar, gas, etc.
Japan marks the fourth anniversary of a quake-tsunami disaster that swept away thousands of people.
'The lessons learnt from the triple disaster have put Japan's energy future On the right path,' notes Dr Rajaram Panda.
Tokyo 2020 organisers received the Olympic flame in a scaled-down handover ceremony in the Greek capital on Thursday, amid the coronavirus spread that has cast doubt on the global, multi-billion dollar event. In a brief ceremony closed to spectators in Athens' Panathenaic stadium, site of the first modern Games in 1896, the torch was received by Tokyo Games representative Naoko Imoto.
The quake struck on Tuesday morning at about 06:00 local time (2:30 am IST on Tuesday), the Japan Meteorological Agency said, adding that the epicentre of the quake, which was felt in Tokyo, was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at a depth of about 25km, the agency said.
We bring you a collection of some of the best photographs taken this week by ace Reuters photographers.
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck at 2:46 PM Japanese Standard Time off the coast of Japan, unleashing enough seismic force to knock the entire world off its axis by more than six inches. Five years later, here's is a comparative photo-feature showing how much things have changed since then
The agreement was reached in intensive negotiations between contact groups that Obama and Modi had set up in September.
The emperor has no political power, yet he enjoys a unique place in Japanese society, notes Dr Rajaram Panda.
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