Rescue & Relief

Kolkata: Central and state agencies associated with disaster management are gearing up with severe cyclonic storm Remal hurtling towards the West Bengal and Bangladesh coastlines. The landfall is expected sometime around midnight on…

Commander Tiwari is facing a travel ban due to a pending issue, which has prevented him from returning to India, unlike his colleagues who returned on February 12th.

Irani shed light on the progress made under the leadership of PM Modi and highlighted the initiatives undertaken to bridge longstanding gaps in healthcare, security, and gender equality.

Two children were among the four killed in the incident in the Alipur area in outer north Delhi, police said.

The Israeli military on Thursday denied it was behind the bombing of an ambulance in the central Gaza Strip a day earlier which killed four medics and two other people.

Wajima city has recorded the highest number of deaths with 69, followed by Suzu with 38. More than 500 people were injured, at least 27 of them seriously.

The hijack attempt by pirates was probably abandoned after the vessel was intercepted by an Indian Navy warship, said the Navy.

The Indian Embassy in Tokyo has set up an emergency control room to provide information on the earthquake and threat of a tsunami.

MV Ruen 18 sailors onboard gave a distress signal on December 14, and indicated that six pirates have boarded the vessel.

Marapi spewed thick columns of ash as high as 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) in Sunday’s eruption and hot ash clouds spread several miles (kilometers).

Devender, a rescuer who only gave his first name, told NDTV that “the trapped workers were overjoyed when they spotted us in the tunnel. Some rushed toward me and hugged me.”

The 41 labourers were stranded after a portion of the Silkyara tunnel on the Silkyara-Dandalgaon route, being built to facilitate the Chardham Yatra route, collapsed on November 12 on Diwali day.

Anurag Jain, secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, said that under the current circumstances “vertical drilling is the second best option”.

There were no immediate reports of casualties but the quake was felt across a wide area of the mountainous island.

Hamas says the damage came from an Israeli air strike, the Israeli avers; 'militants from another Islamist group -- Islamic Jihad -- had caused the explosion with a misfired rocket'

On Saturday morning, an Air India flight AI 140 returned to the national capital with 235 Indians from Israel.

The women, four Vietnamese and two Iraqis, hid for hours in a truck loaded with boxes of bananas in northern France, believing the vehicle was on its way to the UK or Ireland.

The case was lodged after the complainant, who lost his son Dr. Apoorv Mishra in an accident on January 14 last year, approached a local court to get the order for lodging the case on Saturday.

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The quake was the biggest at 6.8 Richter scale to hit Morocco in 120 years.