Fukushima/Tokyo,   Radiation levels rose today in Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant where a new fire broke out, forcing the government to withdraw emergency workers engaged in efforts to cool overheating reactors at the quake-stricken site as authorities scrambled hard to contain the spiralling atomic crisis. Some 50 employees were believed to be working at the [...]

Tokyo,  A large number of Indians stood in queues at the Narita International airport here  on Wednesday in their desperate move to return home, reports Nishant Chaturvedi, India TV correspondent from Tokyo. The exodus of foreign nationals from Japan has been trigerred by the series of fires and explosions at the trouble-ridden Fukushima nuclear power [...]

Fukushima/Tokyo, Mar 16: Japan’s nuclear nightmare worsened today with radiation levels surging at a quake-crippled reactor at Fukushima plant, forcing authorities to briefly pull out emergency workers even as another fire erupted slowing desperate efforts to avert a meltdown. With the crisis appearing to be going beyond control, Japan’s Emperor Akihito in a rare address [...]

Chennai,  The suicide note of Sadiq Batcha, who died under mysterious circumstances, was found today in which the close aide of former telecom minister A Raja said he was embarrassed by CBI raids at his premises in connection with the 2G spectrum scam but blamed none for his taking the extreme step, police said. “In [...]

Tokyo, Mar 14: An explosion shook a quake-damaged Japanese nuclear power plant today and plumes of smoke rose from the building, live television showed. Japan’s nuclear safety agency said the blast, at the number 3 reactor at the Fukushima No 1 plant, was believed to be caused by hydrogen. “We believe it was a hydrogen [...]

Tokyo, Mar 15: A huge explosion hit another reactor at an earthquake-damaged Japanese nuclear power plant early today, the third blast since Saturday, the plant operator said. “There was a huge explosion” between 6:00 am (2100 GMT Monday) and 6:15 am at the number-two reactor of Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant, a Tokyo Electric [...]

The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that shook Japan on Friday released energy equivalent to 336 megatons of TNT explosive, says a media report. This earthquake is also the seventh largest in the known history of the earthquakes, says Dr J G Negi, founder director general, Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar.He said that Japanese coast had tsunami [...]

Tokyo, March 13 : Japan’s industrial heartland  was saved from the heaviest blows of earthquake and tsunami on Friday, reports The New York Times. The report says, the epicenter was in and around the coastal city of Sendai, nearly 200 miles northeast of Tokyo, the nation’s population center, and well north of Japan’s primary manufacturing [...]

Tokyo, March 13 : The New York Times details how Japan’s strict earthquake-resistant building codes and precautions against tsunami saved the lives of a very large number of people, after the 8.9 temblor struck the island nation on Friday afternoon. The report says: “Hidden inside the skeletons of high-rise towers, extra steel bracing, giant rubber [...]

New York, March 12:  The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis. “At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (Geospatial [...]