Personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) reached the site to contain the situation.  

The IIT said the derecognition was temporary as the group did not follow the guidelines. A release said student groups desiring to use the institute’s resources were required to be recognised and they should follow the guidelines prescribed by the Board of Student ....

The league will have 56 games in home and away format, followed by double-leg semifinals from December 11 and final on December 20, 2015 at a pre-decided venue to be announced later. All the matches will kick off at 7.00pm IST. After the opener in Chennai, FC Goa ....

Luke Ronchi scored a 70-ball 88 on his test debut as New Zealand went on the attack after a woeful start to close on 297-8 on day one of the second test against England on Friday. Jimmy Anderson became the 12th player to pass the 400-wicket barrier in tests by removing M ....

The 17-time Grand Slam champion had been caught cold at Roland Garros in 2003 by a player ranked just as low, and he made sure that did not happen again. The second-seeded Swiss advanced to the fourth round for the 11th straight year with a clinical 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 win ....

 Notwithstanding the four-month-old Sirisena government’s repeated assertions of attaching priority to ethnic reconciliation in the country, the regime has been found to be “reluctant” in demilitiarising the Northern and Eastern Provinces, where Tamil ....

The state gained notoriety in 2011 in its scramble to execute death row inmates after prison authorities reached out to foreign suppliers of lethal drugs, including several in India, following massive shortages of in the U.S. of the sedative sodium thiopental. They d ....

 China’s Guizhou province has opened its doors to top Indian cyber companies, in tune with the impulse imparted during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit that the India-China economic engagement is now ready to expand to the provincial level. Big Data ....

No injuries had been reported, although the Japan Meteorological Agency reported that pyroclastic flows from the volcano had reached the shore to the northwest. At least 80 residents were evacuated to safety after a volcano erupted in Japan’s Kuchinoerabu islan ....

No success yet Efforts to clean the river have been on since 1986, when the first Ganga Action Plan was announced by the then Congress government. Since then, thousands of crores of rupees has been pumped into river conservation efforts without any success. This y ....