Two killed in Bihar, three in West Bengal; tremors felt in 10 States; Manmohan monitoring developments

The northern and eastern parts of the country were jolted on Sunday after a powerful earthquake hit the Sikkim-Nepal border with a magnitude of 6.8 at 6.10 p.m., leaving at least 17 persons dead and more than 100 injured, besides causing extensive damage to buildings and roads.

Nominations out for CMS Vatavaran; results in December

Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana rank among the top 10 states in a report released by the RICS India and the Institute for Competitiveness.

The Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee (Siblac) today wrote to Union environment and forest minister Jayanthi Natarajan, objecting to the clearance granted to a 99MW hydel power project on the Rathung Chu, a river considered holy by the Sikkimese.

The committee contends that the clearance was given despite the ministry of environment and forests stating earlier that it had not received any pro

KOLKATA, 17 JULY: After settling the issue in the hills by signing the tripartite agreement tomorrow, the Trinamul Congress-led state government is set to lay stress on bringing in industries in the three hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling.

For this, the state government is likely to place a demand before the department of industrial policy and promotion of the Union ministry of commerce and indu

Affirming the trend of migration of people from villages to big cities and towns, the provisional figures of Census 2011 reveal that for the first time, India has added more people in urban centres than in rural areas over a decade.

Between 2001 and 2011, the number of people living in urban areas increased from 286 million to 377 million, a rise of 91 million.