Women's Corner
Tokyo, March 13 : The New York Times details how Japan’s strict earthquake-resistant building codes and precautions against tsunami saved the lives of a very large number of people, after the 8.9 temblor struck the island nation on Friday afternoon. The report says: “Hidden inside the skeletons of high-rise towers, extra steel bracing, giant rubber [...]
New York, March 12: The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis. “At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (Geospatial [...]
Tokyo, March 12: Adding to the nation’s woes, authorities in Japan on Saturday issued an atomic alert after the quake damaged cooling systems at two nuclear power plants. · Thousands of people were evacuated from areas around the No. 1 and No.2 reactors at Fukushima, and authorities were forced to release what they said were small [...]
Washington, March 11: On March 19th, the moon will be closer to Earth than it’s been since 1992. The full moon that night will appear about 14 percent larger and significantly brighter than usual, but despite the brightness, the supermoon has a dark side. Supermoons have been linked to massive natural disasters in the past, [...]
Tokyo, Mar 12: Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people. Daybreak revealed the full extent of the damage from Friday’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake — the strongest in Japan since records [...]
Tokyo, Mar 12 — Japan’s huge earthquake brought super-modern Tokyo to a standstill as it paralyzed trains that normally run like clockwork, crippled mobile phones, stranded hordes of commuters and trapped scores of people in elevators. The magnitude-8.9 quake that struck off the coast Friday afternoon and triggered a deadly tsunami in the northeast also [...]
Tokyo, March 11: People in cars tried to outrun the huge tsunami waves that lashed the coastal highways of Japan soon after the 8.9 temblor hit the island nation sitting on the Pacific Ring of Fire. All this happened within an unbelievable time period of a mere 10 minutes. Drivers were seen fleeing the waves [...]
Tokyo, March 11: People in cars tried to outrun the huge tsunami waves that lashed the coastal highways of Japan soon after the 8.9 temblor hit the island nation sitting on the Pacific Ring of Fire. All this happened within an unbelievable time period of a mere 10 minutes. Drivers were seen fleeing the waves [...]
For 26 years, an FIR on the death of 32 Sikhs in Hondh village of Rewari district in Haryana, India, has been ignored. The survivors who moved to Ludhiana have at last dared to voice what happened in their village shortly after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984. Busloads of men from outside the [...]
COMMENTS EMAIL | PRINT FONT SIZE Varanasi, Mar 6 : Nehru-Gandhi scion Varun Gandhitoday wed graphic designer Yamini Roy Chowdhury in a simple ceremony attended by a handful of people in a temple on the banks of the Ganges here. 30-year-old Varun, who was in a cream ‘kurta-dhoti’ with saffron ‘angvastram’, got married to Yamini, a [...]
