With the recovery of 3 more bodies from under the massive landslide debris at Malin village near Pune, the death toll in the calamity has climbed to 109, even as the NDRF operation to locate possible survivors entered the sixth day on Monday amid intermittent showers.
The death toll from the powerful earthquake has climbed to nearly 10,000 and it may go up with thousands more remaining under debris of collapsed buildings as rescuers struggle to reach remote towns and villages devastated by the country's worst natural disaster in three decades.
The horrific disaster that has struck Uttrakhand has been assessed as a mix of natural and man-made. In fact, the various media analyses indicate we were asking for it and there were enough warnings and indications that this would happen, says Lt Gen (retd) Prakash Katoch.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) on Monday agreed with the safety concerns in Islamabad, raised by the All India Tennis Association (AITA) and moved the Nov 29-30 tie out of Pakistan's capital city.
The Indian Meteorological Department has issued a warning about havoc rainfall or a cloud burst hitting Bihar's flood-affected districts in the next 24 to 48 hours, officials said on Sunday.
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Faced with floods that affected over 20 million people, the Bihar government has sanctioned a whopping sum of Rs 1,000 crore to compensate the losses suffered by flood victims in the state.
False and acrimonious debates such as Modi versus Manmohan might allow for victories that are political and partisan. But the real loser is the nation, India and Bharat, notes Arvind Subramanian, former chief economic advisor to the Modi government in its first term.
'Exit the car and call for your vehicle to be towed.'
Cricket officials in Sri Lanka have confirmed that the Galle International Stadium will be rebuilt after it was destroyed by last December's tsunami.
The year 2004 has been pretty volatile for the global shipping industry, including the Indian players, as freight rates were impacted by uncertain moods of the oil market and a natural disaster towards the end of the year.
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The Cabinet Committee on Security on Wednesday decided to enhance security for President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, who are protected by the Special Protection Group.
The Telecommunications Bill, 2023, which was passed by a voice vote after a short debate, also allows the Centre to take possession of a telecom network in case of any public emergency or in the interest of public safety.
Pakistan has drawn up an emergency evacuation procedure in case a natural disaster occurs during next month's tour by England.
The heavy rains and floods toppled 212,000 houses, damaged 287,000 other and forced 2.95 million local residents to move to safer places.
The senior defence official, however, refrained from describing the kind of responses that the two countries would respond to their common challenges.
The countries hit hardest by the devastating tidal wave that lashed the Indian Ocean will experience slower economic growth in 2005, but the effects will not be severe, a new report has said.
China has embarked on an ambitious project to digitally map the entire country which would enable decision-makers to have easy access to all information, including personal details of individuals in over 600 Chinese cities and more than 2,000 countie
He further said that the "focus is on horizontal drilling" as rock formation has created challenges for vertical drilling.
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A Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party activist was on Wednesday arrested for allegedly posting 'irresponsible' comments on the social networking site Facebook regarding cyclone Hudhud which hit the North Andhra Pradesh coast earlier this month.
General insurers clocked 14.35 per cent growth in business at Rs 7,168 crore (Rs 71.68 billion) till July, despite rise in claims after heavy rain and floods in western India and the fire at ONGC's Bombay High oil field.
Leaders at the G20 summit on Wednesday called for an immediate end to the Ukraine conflict, holding that "today's era must not be of war", a formulation that echoed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to Russian President Vladimir Putin in September.
The presentation of the Interim Budget (General) for 2004-05 was delayed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday after Congress and other Opposition parties raised certain objections to its introduction.
Acquisitions are done to synergise with existing offerings of firms; to strengthen or enter new areas, platforms or geography; find new customers for its products; keep parts of the acquired organisation, perhaps the digital in the case of Mindtree, and to sell others to increase its own value. Never is it to grow the acquired organisation more than itself, says Pankaj Chandra.
The number of houses that have developed cracks has now risen to 826 out of which 165 are in the "unsafe zone", a bulletin from the Disaster Management Authority said.
The UN called on countries to rush aid to victims of the tsunamis that hit ten countries causing over 24,000 deaths.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the 2006-07 Union Budget in Parliament on Tuesday.
Our men are deputed in the dedicated control rooms of states so that we are on the same page with the local authority in terms of the information, work and tasking, he added.
Tom Bossert's resignation came a day after John Bolton took over the role of National Security Adviser.
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