Turkey earthquake: More aid pledged to worst-hit area

Officials said 12,000 more tents would be delivered to the cities of Ercis and Van and also to nearby villages.

Ankara has been accused of failing to help some of the most needy, who spent the second night in freezing conditions without heating and tents.

At least 279 people are now known to have died and some 1,300 were injured after the 7.2-magnitude earthquake.

Rescue teams with sniffer dogs continued through the night to search for survivors under the rubble of hundreds of collapsed buildings.

Cranes and other heavy equipment have been lifting

CBI does not oppose bail for Kanimozhi, 4 others

Leaving even the defence counsel surprised, the CBI on Monday opted for a limited reading of the order on charges in the 2G spectrum allocation case while telling the special court that it did not have any opposition to five of the accused — including Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi Karunanidhi — being granted bail.

The CBI’s move comes despite the special court’s order Saturday last week that charged all 17 accused in the case with conspiracy to commit criminal breach of trust — a non-bailable offence

Pakistan releases Indian Army chopper, crew returns safely

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI: The Army chopper that strayed into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and was forced to land by Pakistani military, has been released and has returned to India.
The Cheetah helicopter with four officers on board returned to Kargil in Jammu and Kashmir around 6pm, ending an inadvertent intrusion that immediately triggered urgent talks between the two foreign and military establishments.

The chopper landed safety in India, Virendra Singh, the army's assistant public relations officer, said.

Indian military officials earlier said that pilot error forced the chopper to stray across the Line of Control (LoC) that

Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s Autocratic Ruler for 42 years killed in Sirte

Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya for over 40 years, was killed on 20 October 2011 by fighters of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) in his hometown, Sirte. Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya for 42 years after coming to power in a coup will be remembered as mercurial and eccentric man.

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was born to nomadic parents in the desert region of Sirte in 1942. He went to study history at the University of Libya in 1961 and then entered the Benghazi Military Academy.  He remained the autocratic ruler of Libya from 1969, when he seized power in a bloodless military coup that overthrew King Idris I until 2011

Two arrested on charges of forced child labour

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 19 (MExN): Four minors allegedly forced to labour as household helps on the promise of schooling them were rescued from a home in Dimapur on October 14 last. The children, all boys aged between 11-13 years, are from Mon district.
According to Women Cell, Dimapur, the rescue was made following a receipt of a verbal complaint from Naga Women Hoho Dimapur. One man and a woman were arrested in this connection. The woman was identified as Tsering Chonzon (45 years), a Tibetan; and the other was identified as Noklem Konyak (41 years). Both were booked under section 374 of the Indian Penal Code (unlawful compulsory labour).
Women Cell disclosed that Chonzon was arrested the day the children were rescued while, Konyak was arrested from Mon two days later.  
The children, according to the initial statement of Chonzon, were brought to

Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70

Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley Heights, N.J. He was 70.

Mr. Ritchie, who lived alone, was in frail health in recent years after treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease, said his brother Bill.

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, working at Bell Labs, Mr. Ritchie made a pair of lasting contributions to

Japan’s Radioactive Hot Spots Suggest a Wider Problem

TOKYO — Takeo Hayashida signed on with a citizens’ group to test for radiation near his son’s baseball field in Tokyo after government officials told him they had no plans to check for fallout from the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Like Japan’s central government, local officials said there was nothing to fear in the capital, 160 miles from the disaster zone.

Then came the test result: the level of radioactive cesium in a patch of dirt just yards from where his 11-year-old son, Koshiro, played baseball was equal

Nagaland first to use waste tech for roads

Dimapur, October 11 (MExN): Pollution authorities in Nagaland have refuted a news report stating Meghalaya to be the first state in the North Eastern region to use bitumen and waste plastic to pave roads. Nagaland Pollution Control Board (NPCB) issued a note today saying Nagaland has in fact used the stated technology way back in 2010.
Member secretary of the board, Rusovil John said in the note that the agency had used the technology for a stretch of road in Dimapur. “I would like to state that the Nagaland Pollution Control Board in the year 2010 has used this technology using the bitumen polymer (plastic waste) for