Mangaluru : Nine tourists from Dakshina Kannada, who had been to Pokhara in Nepal, are safe and on their way back to Nagarkot. Vathika Pai from Nirmala Travels said nine persons from different parts of the district had left Mangaluru a few days ago to Pokhara, which is about 80 km from the epicentre of […]

Mangalore : Frequent traffic block on the Nethravati bridge on the National Highway 66 could be a thing of past as a new parallel bridge built across the river will be thrown open to traffic next week. Sources in the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) told that traffic on the new bridge would be […]

Karimganj : An earthquake of moderate intensity, measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, jolted India-Bangladesh border here today. The quake, which struck at 07:01 AM today, was measured 5.2 on the Richter scale, the India Meteorological Department said. The epicentre of the quake was located at 24.8 degrees north on the latitude and 92.2 degrees […]

Imphal : An earthquake of slight intensity, measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale, jolted Churachandpur region of Manipur today. The quake, which struck at 3.37 AM today, was measured 4.2 on the Richter scale, the India Meteorological Department said. The epicentre of the quake was located at 24.3 degrees north on the latitude and 93.1 […]

Tokyo: A strong earthquake centred off the coast of northeastern Japan shook buildings as far as Tokyo and led to a tsunami warning for coastal areas of the northeast, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday. The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3, the US Geological Survey said. That was revised from an earlier estimate […]

Port Blair : A slight intensity earthquake, measuring 4.8 on Richter scale, jolted region of Andaman Islands today.The quake, which struck at 4:44 AM today, was measured 4.8 on the Richter Scale, the India Meteorological Department said. The epicentre of the quake was located at 14.1 degrees north on the latitude and 93.5 degrees east […]

Myanmar: A strong earthquake has struck northern Myanmar, but no injuries were immediately reported. The magnitude-6.6 temblor hit the area at 7:42 a.m. Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake had a depth of just 10 kilometers  and hit 117 kilometers  north of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city. Residents from Mandalay, the second biggest […]

Mexico: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday off the coast of Guatemala near the Mexican border, the US Geological Service reported, killing at least thirty eight people in the Central American country. Ten people remained missing late Wednesday in Guatemala. The quake’s epicentre was almost 42 kilometres deep under the Caribbean Sea, 56 kilometres south—west of […]

Bangalore: No, the CM is not going abroad. Facing severe criticism at a time when droughts and earthquake shocks are experienced all over Karnataka, DVS Gowda retracted and cancelled his programme of going outside India, even with a begging bowl, to Japan or Singapore. Sunami terror has hit many Asian nations on Wednesday, although no […]

Bangalore : An earthquake of 8.9 on Richter scale has struck Indonesia. Tremors were also felt in Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore,Mangalore  Patna, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Cuttack, Bhubaneshwar and several other cities on the eastern coast of India. India has also issued tsunami warning for coastal regions of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands following the […]