Mayura Janwalka explains what it takes to retrofit a building — make it resistant to tremors.

The system would be able to tackle incoming ballistic missiles of range up to 2,000 km.

Over the years, the Congress and its first family have harnessed personal faith to their politics.

Starting from a few hours after the earthquake struck, the Indian relief and rescue effort has been relentless and unflagging.

The study on the performance of buildings during the earthquake in Bhuj in 2001 brought out the reasons for their destruction.

AIADMK leaders say that even in the worst case, they expect a smaller punishment from the higher courts for party chief J Jayalalithaa.

2015 is the centenary of the theory of continental drift, the explanation for quakes, including Nepal.

Foreman thinks Saturday’s Mayweather vs Pacquiao bout will be the Fight of the Generation. Here’s why.

The biggest-ever exercise to count the only wild population of Asiatic lions in the world begins on Saturday.

Why India’s reported ‘Olympics 2024 bid’ is devoid of sense or logic.

SC on Tuesday stayed proceedings on a breach of privilege motion against Shobhaa De by the Maharashtra assembly. KAVITHA IYER gives the facts.

Articles 124 and 217 of the Constitution have been subjected to scrutiny and interpretation in the SC.

Gujarat Governor O P Kohli last week sent the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GCTOC) Bill, 2015 for the President’s assent.

The new Companies Act mandates Board structures and processes that seek to promote good corporate governance practices.

The scale of the Trinamool Congress victory is overwhelming. At the same time, the different dimensions of the outcome make the CPM-BJP allegations of “state sponsored terror” hard to substantiate.

As Srinivasan v Thakur hots up, SHAMIK CHAKRABARTY chronicles the playing, missing and hitting in BCCI.

‘No 50-storey building in the world has survived a major earthquake, even after adhering to norms’.

Toll from the Nepal earthquake is past 4,000. Over the last 114 years, 48 quakes have killed 5,000 people or more.

Nearly 70 per cent of the global population of 7.2 billion — lack access to safe, affordable surgical and anaesthesia care

Al-Qaeda seeks to stage operations against India and the wider region.

Nehru, despite disagreeing with Gandhi on several occasions, was ultimately happy to surrender to whatever Gandhi wanted; Bose was not willing to bend.