Earthquakes

Dehradun: A day after 18 students died as their school building caved in following landslides, the state government on Friday decided to relocate 101 villages situated in extremely dangerous and seismologically sensitive places across Garhwal and Kumaon regions. Chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said in Bageshwar that the government had identified the villages on the basis of a survey

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A slight intensity earthquake measuring 2.6 on the Richter Scale hit Thane district in Maharashtra early today.

The epicentre of the quake, which occurred at 1.07 am, was at 19.3 degree North latitude and 73.3 degree east longitude, the meteorological department said in New Delhi.

No loss of life or damage to property has been reported so far.

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Shillong, July 27 (IANS): Three earthquakes shook parts of Meghalaya and Assam within eight hours on Tuesday, triggering panic among residents. No casualties were reported. The first tremor measuring 4.1 on the Richter Scale with its epicentre at Barpeta region in Assam was felt at 12.43 am in Meghalaya and Assam, an official at the Central Seismological Centre here told IANS.

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JAIPUR: Initiatives for stepping up preparedness for natural disasters, establishment of safety nets such as grain bank and fodder bank and exercises for hazard vulnerability analysis at the village level in Rajasthan were highlighted at an international workshop on disaster prevention organised in Japan earlier this month.

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GUWAHATI, July 11: The AASU and All Mising Students’ Union (TMPK) have warned Delhi and Dispur of stronger agitation against mega dams in the State. The AASU and TMPK today reiterated that the government must stop the construction of the mega dam by the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) at the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project site.

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GUWAHATI, July 4: Reacting to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s statement on the report of the expert committee on mega dams, the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) secretary Akhil Gogoi today said that the Chief Minister’s statement lowered the image of the scientists of the State and the prestigious educational institutions — Gauhati University, Dibrugarh University and IIT-Guwahati — which

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Sushanta Talukdar Guwahati: The Expert Group constituted to study the downstream impact of the ongoing 2,000-MW Subonsiri Lower hydro-electric power project of the National Hydro-electric Power Corporation (NHPC) at Gerukamukh on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border has recommended that the mega dam not be built at the present site.

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GUWAHATI, July 1 ? The All Assam Students? Union (AASU) today demanded immediate steps to thrust aside the under-construction Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHEP) and also to shelve all the mega-dam hydel projects proposed in the NE region.

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Paris: Dreams of braking global warming by storing carbon emissions from power plants could be undermined by the risk of leakage, according to a study published on Sunday.

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