PM consoles Mansur Pataudi's death

Friday, September 23, 2011

Prime Minister 'Manmohan Singh' consoled the death of Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi on Friday. He says that Pataudi was an iconic figure with full confidence that takes indian cricket to  different level.

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Train Protection Warning System(TPWS) To Be Installed Soon!!

After many rail mishaps, now finally Railways took a decision to install Train Protection Warning System (TPWS) on Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata route which is considered as the most busy route in the northern railway zone.TPWS automatically brakes the train when the loco pilot jumps the red signal but is estimated to cost a prohibitive Rs 50 lakh per kilometre.

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Intel to launch their Ultrabooks costs around $1000

Sunday, September 18, 2011

The world’s largest chip-maker Intel Corporation on Thursday said the new ‘Ultrabook’ devices being developed with its technology will initially cost around $1,000, but the price tag should fall below $799 in coming years.

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Strong Earthqauke causes deaths, destruction in India & Nepal

At least 9 people were killed and about 200 injured on sunday as a 6.8 intensity earthquake 


ravaged Sikkim-Nepal border region, shaking large parts of India, Bangladesh and Nepal 


and causing widespread panic.

Tens of thousands people are out of their homes just after 6 p.m. in numerous cities including New Delhi following the powerful tremor that was quickly followed by two major aftershocks.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the epicentre of the quake was on the Sikkim-Nepal border.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh immediately convened a meeting of the National Disaster Management Authority. The Indian army was put on alert for deployment in Sikkim.

In no time, the Indian Air Force flew five cargo planes with relief material and rescue personnel for deployment in West Bengal and Sikkim, which accounted for four deaths.

One of the dead was a child, officials in Gangtok said. Another was Sandipan Banerjee, an official with a pharmaceutical company who died when a house collapsed in Rangpo, 40 km from Gangtok.

Another man died when his vehicle was trapped in a massive mudslide on the outskirts of Gangtok.

The worst, officials said, was feared in the Sikkim-Nepal border region, where mudslides had blockaded roads.

Cabinet Secretary Ajit Kumar Seth told reporters: “As time passes, we will get more information… Everyone is helping out.”

At least five people were killed in Nepal, three of them in Kathmandu alone, triggering panic and chaos all across the Himalayan kingdom, news reports said.

The British embassy in Kathmandu, located in the Lainchaur area close to the Indian embassy, collapsed after the quake, smashing a car and killing three people inside.

Dozens were injured as houses crashed across the mountainous country, snapping communication lines.

Across India, buildings shook triggering panic almost all over northern and eastern India, including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Mizoram.

In Assam’s major city Guwahati, people ran out of their homes.

Power supply was disrupted in parts of northern West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said in Kolkata.

“In no time all the people in my neighbourhood were out of their apartments,” said Anjani Kumari, who lives on Boring Road in Patna, Bihar.

The experience was particularly frightening for those in high rises.

“I was watching TV and for a few seconds thought my head was spinning. When I realised it was an earthquake, I ran out,” said Meenakshi Sinha, who lives on the seventh floor of an apartment complex in Noida.

She said the tremors lasted 30 to 40 seconds.

Lucknow resident Vijay Dutt told reporters, “There were strong tremors. In our building, everybody rushed out fearing the worst. The furniture shook and windows rattled. It was scary,” he added.

In Tripura, officials said the quake was also felt in neighbouring Bangladesh.

This is the fourth earthquake to hit India this month.

An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter Scale had shaken north India Sep 7 at around with its epicentre near Sonepat in Haryana, 65 km from New Delhi.

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Breaking News : Earthquake knocks Sikkim at 6:17 pm

Magnitude 6.8 - SIKKIM, INDIA

Magnitude	6.8
Location	27.730°N, 88.082°E
Depth	20.7 km (12.9 miles)
Region	SIKKIM, INDIA
Distances	68 km (42 miles) NW of Gangtok, Sikkim, India 119 km (73 miles) NNW of Shiliguri, West Bengal, India 272 km (169 miles) E of KATHMANDU, Nepal 572 km (355 miles) N of Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 14.4 km (8.9 miles); depth +/- 7.4 km (4.6 miles)

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Sikkim at 6:17pm, sunday evening. No details of any casualties or destruction have been ascertained as of now.

Initial reports from Sikkim indicate that the quake caused violent shuddering, panicing the residents. Telephone and electricity services have gone down.

The earthquake caused tremors to be felt all across North India, causing building to shake as far away as Kolkata. The quake also led to evacuations in Patna and New Delhi.

The earthquake occurred ten kilometres under the Earth and It's epicenter was 64 kilometers away from Gangkot. 

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