A 5.3-magnitude earthquake rattled the northern tip of Indonesia on Monday, geologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

The quake struck at a shallow depth of one kilometre (just over half a mile) around 160 kms (100 miles) southeast of Banda Aceh on Indonesia's Sumatra island at 2:09 am (1809 GMT Sunday), the US Geological Survey said.

Japan's response to the nuclear crisis that followed the March 11 tsunami was confused and riddled with problems, including an erroneous assumption an emergency cooling system was working and a del

CHENNAI: Seven years after tsunami, there is hope for 566 families of Nochikuppam as they will be allotted a new house under the Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project (ETRP) of the World Bank at

KARUNAGAPPALLY: Revenue Minister Thiruvanchur Radhakrishnan has said that a Rs 1,043 crore worth of projects would be submitted to the Central Government for disaster management in the state.

Civil nuclear cooperation will be among the major issues of discussion at the summit meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihiko Noda here on Wednesday during which the two sides will also look at ways to enhance trade.

Decommissioning the wrecked reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will take 40 years and require the use of robots to remove melted fuel that appears to be stuck to the bottom of the reac

A Central panel has assuaged fears surrounding the Kudankulam nuclear project, in Tamil Nadu.