Srinagar: In Chenab valley in Jammu and Kashmir, people are scared to enter their houses due to frequent earthquakes. Since the May 1 earthquake that measured 5.9 on the richer scale, 30 aftershocks have hit this hilly region.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought 450 crore for relief.
"There are cracks in our house. TV fell down. Our house was shaking. Everything shakes, mama keeps on shouting, runs away from the house holding me. The television fell. I am not allowed to go in the house," 4-year-old kid Mutayab Bhat said.
"We are scared due to the quake tremors," 6-year-old Insha said....
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10:52 AM, May 19, 2013
Bhaderwah: Three moderate intensity tremors shook Bhaderwah valley and adjoining areas of Doda-Kishtwar belt of Jammu in the wee hours on Wednesday, prompting authorities to once again shut schools in the region rattled by a series of quakes this month. However, there was no immediate report of any casualty or damage. The moderate intensity tremors of 4.8, 5.3 and 5.0 magnitude on the Richter Scale shook the area at 1:28...
11:40 AM, May 15, 2013
Beijing: China on Sunday took note of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks over PLA's incursion into the Depsang Valley and said that it is willing to work with New Delhi to deal with differences while maintaining peace at borders and forging strategic cooperative partnership. "We have noted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement," a statement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. "The two sides have been in communication through the working...
07:25 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Kolkata: The chit fund scam in West Bengal is getting bigger with market regulator Sebi turning the heat on over a dozen other companies running similar Ponzi schemes. People are rushing to withdraw Rs 20,000 crore invested in these companies. Sebi has asked the government to look into the operations of all these companies. One such company is the Rose Valley Group, which has now approached West Bengal Chief Minister...
09:45 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Kolkata: The chit fund scam in West Bengal is getting bigger. Market regulator Sebi has asked the government to look into the operations of other companies, which could be compromising investor money like the Saradha group. The Rose Valley Group is one of them. The company has approached West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seeking protection. Its chairman Goutam Kundu wrote to the CM on April 23 saying that the...
07:50 AM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: Ten things to remember about acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert, who died on Thursday: 1. There were many firsts in his career Roger Ebert was the first journalist to win the Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism in 1975. He also earned an honor given to the movie stars he wrote about. Ebert was the first critic to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2. Ebert...
10:15 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Startup Genome released a report on the world's top startup ecosystems. ...
03:36 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Security has been beefed up across Kashmir Valley, especially in the summer capital of Srinagar, where militants recently carried out two attacks in as many weeks. ...
03:55 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Adria Richards took a photo of two men and posted it on Twitter with their alleged comments. ...
01:15 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education in her country, on Tuesday defied her attackers by returning to a school in Britain, where she underwent several surgeries. "I am excited that today I have achieved my dream of going back to school," she said after her first day of classes at Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham. ...
11:45 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Syrian air force jets fired four rockets at a remote section of the border with Lebanon on Monday, security sources said, four days after Damascus warned it may strike at Syrian rebels taking refuge across the frontier. ...
12:15 AM, Mar 19, 2013
The Kashmir Valley was returning towards normalcy for the last three years as terror related incidents were on a decline. Tourism and allied activities were on the upswing but following Wednesday's audacious terror attack on a CRPF camp in which five security personnel and two terrorists were killed has brought back fears of troubled times ahead. ...
03:57 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Slamming the Jammu and Kashmir government for "disarming" the police and CRPF in Kashmir valley and making them "targets" to terror attacks, Opposition parties on Thursady staged a walkout over the killing of five CRPF personnel by terrorists in Srinagar. ...
03:16 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Kashmir observed a shutdown for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday even as authorities continued curfew in several parts of the Valley to prevent deterioration of law and order in the wake of killing of a youth allegedly in Army firing in Baramulla. ...
12:42 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Curfew was imposed on Tuesday night in 10 police station areas of Kashmir Valley as a precautionary measure with the authorities apprehending law and order problem following the killing of a youth in firing allegedly by security forces in Baramulla district. ...
11:51 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The Border Roads Organisation has been pressed into service to restore connectivity in the area, where roads have been badly damaged due to the landslide. This is the second major landslide on the same stretch within a week. ...
10:42 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Curfew in the Kashmir Valley has been lifted a week after Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged. The week-long restrictions have been removed and the Internet services have been restored. ...
11:05 AM, Feb 16, 2013
Curfew continued for the sixth day in the old city areas of Srinagar on February 14, even as authorities decided to extend curfew relaxation in many other towns of the valley. Curfew was imposed in parts of the state after Afzal Guru, convicted in the parliament attack case of December 2001, was hanged to death in the Tihar Central Jail in the national capital on Feb 9, even before his...
01:14 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Sebi has taken stern action against Sahara for failing to return the money of investors. The total amount to be refunded is over Rs 24,000 crore. Sebi's action follows directions from the Supreme Court, which had said last week that the market regulator was free to freeze accounts and attach properties if Sahara group firms were not depositing the money with it for refunding to the investors. ...
11:01 AM, Feb 14, 2013
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) cracked down on the Sahara Group and on Wednesday froze accounts of Sahara India Real Estate Corporation and Sahara Housing Investment Corporation. ...
07:27 AM, Feb 14, 2013
