Tibet jolted BEIJING: Two consecutive tremors jolted Xanza county in China's Tibet autonomous region yesterday evening. So far there was no report of casualties from the quake-hit area, which is located northwest of Lhasa, capital of Tibet. The first quake, measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, occurred at 1906 hrs (Beijing time) followed by the second measuring 5.3 occurred seven minutes later.CIA awardWASHINGTON: The CIA's branch chief for India was given an award a week after India carried out five nuclear tests that the agency failed to predict. The award, for managerial efforts, had been announced within the agency, along with awards for 24 other staffers, a few weeks before the Indian tests. Gerardi fetedGUATEMALA CITY: State officials joined priests and ordinary Roman Catholics on Saturday to mark the 40th day since the murder of bishop and rights activist Juan Gerardi, who was bludgeoned to death at his home at the San Sebastian church here on April 26, two daysafter releasing a scathing report on human rights abuses during Guatemala's 36-year civil war.
