India offers help to quake-hit Japan
NEW DELHI: While expressing shock over the quake-tsunamis tragedy in Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered India's readiness to help Japan, saying "our resources are at your disposal".
Threat to nuclear reactor
TOKYO: The Tokyo Electric Power Company has warned the Japanese government of an emergency situation at a nuclear power plant in quake-stricken Fukushima Prefecture.
MASSIVE TRAGEDY HITS JAPAN
TIA Monitoring Desk The biggest earthquake of the history hit Japan Pacific coast of country's northeast claimed hundred of lives. Tsunami waves hit a wide-ranging area from Hokkaido in the…
Govt formulates plan to rescue Indian sailors
ASHOK B SHARMA /TIANEW DELHI: India is making efforts to rescue the remaining 53 Indian sailors who are still captive of Somali pirates. On Wednesday only 11 Indian sailors of…
IHRO demands action against Ansari killers
TIA CorrespondentNEW DELHI: International Human Rights Organisation (IHRO) has asked the Jharkand government to book the murderers of the human rights and RTI activist, Niyamat Ansari.
MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN
A massive earthquake of 8.9 magnitude hits northeastern coast of Japan on Friday. The quake unleashed a 13-foot tsunami that washed away cars and tore away buildings along the coast…
Dalai Lama renounces politics
NEW DELHI (AMN) Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Thursday renounced active politics, saying the time had come for new independently elected leader.
Two militants killed near Dal Lake
SRINAGAR: Self-styled chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad militant outfit Sajjad Afghani and his bodyguard were killed in an encounter with security forces at Foreshore Road near Dal Lake in the outskirts of…
Efforts are on for safe release of 53 sailors
ASHOK B SHARMA / TIA NEW DELHI: The government of India is making efforts to rescue the remaining 53 Indian sailors who are still captive of Somali pirates. On Wednesday…
NRIs can vote, but to pay more for stay
ASHOK B SHARMA/ TIANEW DELHI: There is something about which the Non-resident Indians (NRIs) may have to cheer. They now have the right to vote and those hailing from five…