All eight members and the vice-chairman of the NDMA were asked to resign when the NDA government came to power last May.
State health authorities have sent two teams of doctors to Nepal. The other experts who will be sent to the neighbouring country include plastic and orthopaedic surgeons.
Aasman Lama, a farmer, had to borrow Rs 6,600 from his neighbours and relatives to organise a cremation for his daughter Salina (22).
A police case has been registered against former MLA Dayanand Rai for spreading rumours about another earthquake through WhatsApp.
Now, the 200-bed National Trauma Centre at Bir hospital has become the focal point for thousands of those injured — and is struggling to treat them all.
As NDRF personnel drill through the debris to locate survivors and bodies, Tanu and Golu enter the crevices the moment their handlers give the orders.
Residents of a Dalit village say no aid from governmet yet.
NDRF, China rescue teams work to recover body of Army Major and free another man stuck under the rubble.
Public sector GIC Re, the only Indian reinsurer and also the largest in Nepal, is expecting around a $160 million hit from the damages.
A specialist doctor may get anything between Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 1.8 lakh.
At an event to distribute free laptops to the MLAs, Congress legislator from Hassanpur Udai Bhan demanded the upper limit of car and housing loans for the legislators be doubled.
The temporary arrangement ensured that phone lines started working and they could contact the concerned authorities.
Indians are now getting married at an older age than a decade ago.
El Nino, which is known to have an adverse impact on India’s monsoon, has strengthened further.
Outfit organising conference works to undermine tobacco control policies, say activists.
According to data available, Israel has sent the second largest team with 299 personnel, followed by China with 253.
These people are being transported in 80 buses that would cross over into India and terminate at Gorakhpur.
Earlier, there were reports that these two doctors had escaped with injuries and the rescue workers had identified them.
Deo had on Sunday said the elevation of Rahul Gandhi as Congress president was a non-issue as the real issue was dismantling of the “oligarchy” in the party.
Officials say this is meant to highlight Modi’s leadership role in the subcontinent.
Days after a package was couriered to him, which contained a “cellphone” hidden inside a cavity cut into a book, terror accused Ramesh Upadhyay has been shifted to high security Anda Cell of Yerawada Central Prison. The administration cited “security concerns” for shifting Upadhyay — who is an accused in the 2008 bombing incident in […]