Singapore: Japan may need five years to rebuild from the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that has caused up to $ 235 billion of damage, the World Bank said on Monday. The March 11 disaster which ravaged northeastern Japan will likely shave up to 0.5 percentage point from the country's economic growth this year, the bank said in a report. The impact will be concentrated in the first half of the...
09:46 AM, Mar 21, 2011
The Japanese government has issued an advisory to a village near Fukushima Daiichi plant not to drink tap water, due to elevated levels of radioactive iodine. ...
07:48 AM, Mar 21, 2011
Tokyo: Japanese engineers on Sunday made little progress in their efforts to avert a nuclear crisis as they resumed dousing the Fukushima atomic power plant in north eastern Japan after few hours break, even as the toll in quake-stricken country crossed 20,000. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), which owns and runs the plants, said the efforts are being made by the engineers to restore electricity to reactors at the plant,...
03:35 PM, Mar 20, 2011
Tokyo: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 hit northern Japan on Saturday, broadcaster NHK said. The epicenter was not far from Japan's stricken nuclear power plant. There was no tsunami threat and no immediate reports of injuries or damage, NHK added. Kyodo agency reported that a change in the sea level may occur following the quake, but no damage is expected. Japan has been hit by hundreds of...
04:56 PM, Mar 19, 2011
Tokyo: Exhausted engineers attached a power cable to the outside of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear station on Saturday in a race to prevent deadly radiation from an accident now rated at least as bad as America's Three Mile Island in 1979. Further cabling inside was underway before an attempt to restart water pumps needed to cool overheated nuclear fuel rods at the six-reactor Fukushima plant in northeastern Japan, 240 km (150...
08:10 AM, Mar 19, 2011
Kiev: A major crash at the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant may entail the same disastrous aftermath as an awful blast at the Ukrainian Chernobyl nuclear power plant, chairman of the Ukrainian State Committee for Nuclear Regulation Yelena Mikolaichuk told reporters. "The current situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant did not stabilize and keeps deteriorating, therefore, it is premature to make any conclusions," Mikolaichuk said. The Ukrainian nuclear watchdog...
05:22 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Tokyo: The catastrophic quake and ensuing tsunami in Japan last week has left 6,405 people dead, while at least 10,259 were still unaccounted for till Friday, the National Police Agency said. Around 2,000 recovered bodies were identified on Thursday in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, of which 870 were returned to their families, Xinhua reported. The number of damaged buildings has crossed 75,000, the police agency said. Japanese broadcaster NHK...
11:45 AM, Mar 18, 2011
Tokyo: Thousands dead, thousands missing, debris everywhere and suffering. The subsequent tsunami raged in the port city of Hachinohe in the northeast, leaving behind a trail of utter devastation. But in the whole mess there is a small miracle. Tsuna Kimura, an 83-year old woman who lived alone in the town of Ishinomaki, Japan, escaped the tsunami by fleeing on her bicycle. When she heard about the tsunami warning, she...
11:04 AM, Mar 18, 2011
Tokyo: Japanese engineers raced to restore a power cable to a quake-ravaged nuclear power plant on Friday in the hope of restarting pumps needed to pour cold water on overheating fuel rods and avert a catastrophic release of radiation. Officials said they hoped to fix a cable from the grid to at least two of the six reactors on Friday, but that work would stop in the morning to allow...
09:17 AM, Mar 18, 2011
New documents released by WikiLeaks show that Japan had been warned of a meltdown two years ago. ...
07:40 AM, Mar 17, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi airport was a picture of chaos on Wednesday night with almost every one here wanting to catch a glimpse of the passengers who were brought back from Japan on a special flight. But the 500 passengers who got off the flight were composed. Passenger Ridhi Singla said, "If people want to come there are flights coming every day. I came because I am pregnant. For normal reason...
07:09 AM, Mar 17, 2011
Desperate efforts were on to contain the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant as radiation levels peaked in the area. ...
11:10 PM, Mar 16, 2011
CNN's Sandra Endo's grandmother and family are in Fukushima. She says like many others, her family is also coping with the disaster. ...
10:20 PM, Mar 16, 2011
Fukushima: Japan ordered emergency workers to withdraw from its stricken nuclear complex on Wednesday amid a surge in radiation, temporarily suspending efforts to cool the overheating reactors. Hours later, officials said they were preparing to send the team back in. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the workers, who had been dousing the reactors with seawater in a frantic effort to stabilize their temperatures, had no choice but to pull...
03:13 PM, Mar 16, 2011
The latest nuclear disaster in Japan is considered the worst since Chernobyl back in 1986. ...
10:21 AM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: India has ordered imported Japanese food products to be tested for radioactivity, food safety authorities said on Tuesday. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India said in an letter to its units at ports the order applied to products shipped out of Japan after March 11. Several other Asian nations like Thailand, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines have ordered similar tests. Japan faces the...
09:37 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Rikuzentakata: A widening cloud of radiation on Tuesday added to the misery of millions of people in Japan's devastated northeast, already short of water and food and trying to keep warm in near-freezing temperatures. As bodies washed up on the coast from Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami, injured survivors, children and elderly crammed into makeshift shelters, often without medicine. By Monday, 550,000 people had been evacuated after the cataclysmic events...
08:52 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Tokyo: Japan raced to avert a catastrophe after fire broke out on Wednesday at a nuclear plant that has sent low levels of radiation wafting into Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital and triggering growing international alarm at the escalating crisis. The operator of the quake-crippled plant said workers were trying to put out the blaze at the building housing the No4 reactor of the nuclear facility in...
07:00 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Rajdeep Sardesai talks to FICCI Director General Dr Rajiv Kumar about possible effects of the Japan earthquake on India's economy. ...
10:34 PM, Mar 15, 2011
Tokyo: There are two Naoto Kans who live within the Japanese imagination. One is the crusading health minister of the 1990s who stood up to his own bureaucracy to lift the lid on a horrific AIDS scandal. The other is the uninspiring Prime Minister of today, whose dithering leadership sent his popularity rating below 20 per cent. Now Japan's tsunami tragedy and nuclear crisis are drawing out glimmers of the...
06:56 PM, Mar 15, 2011
