India, U.S. researchers clash over swine flu strain mutation

India has disputed U.S. scientists' findings that the deadly swine flu virus has acquired more virulent mutations in the South Asian country and rejected their concerns over how authorities are monitoring an outbreak of the disease.

H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, has killed more than 1,500 people in India this year, compared with 218 in 2014.

.Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said in an article on Wednesday that the genetic information of two Indian strains, deposited in public databases in the past two years, revealed new mutations that could make the virus more deadly.

We found that the strain analysed in the said publication and the sequence data of the original H1N1 virus ... did not show any of these mutations," the institute said.

The government agency also said the strain analysed by the U.S. scientists had no relevance to the current outbreak.

In recent weeks, India has placed orders to increase the stock of diagnostic kits and procured additional doses of anti-viral drug Oseltamivir. Officials are investigating the cause of the steep rise in deaths.

Massive ocean found on Jupiter’s largest moon

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found strong evidence of a massive saltwater ocean under the icy crust of Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede that could potentially support life.

The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth’s surface, researchers said.

Identifying liquid water is crucial in the search for habitable worlds beyond Earth and for the search for life.

“This discovery marks a significant milestone, highlighting what only Hubble can accomplish,” said John Grunsfeld, assistant administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.

“A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth,” said Grunsfeld.

Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system and the only moon with its own magnetic field. The magnetic field causes aurorae, which are ribbons of glowing, hot electrified gas, in regions circling the north and south poles of the moon.

Because Ganymede is close to Jupiter, it is also embedded in Jupiter’s magnetic field. When Jupiter’s magnetic field changes, the aurorae on Ganymede also change, “rocking” back and forth.

By watching the rocking motion of the two aurorae, scientists were able to determine that a large amount of saltwater exists beneath Ganymede’s crust, affecting its magnetic field.

Which animal has the most sensitive eyes?

The human eye is one of evolution's greatest achievements. It can see tiny dust specks and huge mountains, near or far, in full colour. Backed by the processing power of our brains, it can also pick out movement and help us identify the people we love just by their faces.
One of the eye's best tricks is so good, you don't notice it. When you step from the brightly-lit outdoors into a dimly-lit building, the light level drops massively, but your eyes adjust almost immediately. That's because they have evolved to work even when there isn't much light around.
But other species are even better in dim light. Try reading a newspaper in the gloom of twilight, and the black letters will merge with the white background into a smoky greyness that your eyes cannot decipher. However, hand the paper to a cat and it would be fine, or at least it would if it knew how to read.

But even cats, despite their habit of hunting at night, are far from the most light-sensitive animals around. .
To compare how much light animals need to see by, we'll be using lux - the amount of light per square metre. Human eyes work well in bright sunlight, when the illumination can be well over 10,000 lux. We can also see, albeit dimly, in just 1 lux, which is about what you get on a dark night.

Cats have also changed the makeup of their retinas. There are two types of light-sensitive cells there. Cones are colour-sensitive but only work in bright light, while rods only do black-and-white but work in dim light. Humans have lots of cones, giving us rich colour vision in the day, but cats are big on rods. They have 25 rods to each cone, compared to four rods to each cone in humans.
Tarsiers are tree-dwelling primates from South East Asia. They have probably the largest eyes, relative to their body size, of any mammal. A tarsier's body, excluding the tail, is about 9-16 cm. Meanwhile its eyes are 1.5-1.8 cm across, and occupy almost the entire head.

This carpenter bee from the Western Ghats of southern India goes one better. It can even fly on moonless nights, when light intensities are even lower. "They can fly in starlight, on cloudy starlit nights and even when there is a lot of wind.

American cockroach American cockroach 
We can't directly compare cockroaches to the other animals, because their vision has been measured in a different way. But it is clear that their eyes are extraordinarily sensitive.less than one photon per second

We can't directly compare cockroaches to the other animals, because their vision has been measured in a different way. But it is clear that their eyes are extraordinarily sensitive. 

US and UK accused of hacking Sim card firm to steal codes

US and British intelligence agencies hacked into a major manufacturer of Sim cards in order to steal codes that facilitate eavesdropping on mobiles.
the great Sim heist" gave US and British surveillance agencies "the potential to secretly monitor a large portion of the world's cellular communications, including both voice and data".
It says that among the clients of the Netherlands-based company are AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and "some 450 wireless network providers around the world".

Gemalto makes Sim cards for mobile phones and furnishes service providers with encryption codes to keep the data on each phone private.
The Intercept claims that by first cyber-stalking employees at Gemalto and then penetrating their emails, the spy agencies were able to steal thousands of encryption keys at source.
This would allow them to eavesdrop easily on phone calls and texts without seeking permission from telecoms companies or foreign governments, and without leaving a trace.

The Intercept cites as its source documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who is currently living in Russia.

Lenovo taken to task over 'malicious' adware

Computer maker Lenovo has been forced to remove hidden adware that it was shipping on its laptops and PCs after users expressed anger.

The adware - dubbed Superfish - was potentially compromising their security, said experts.
The hidden software was also injecting adverts on to browsers using techniques more akin to malware, they added.
Lenovo faces questions about why and for how long it was pre-installed on machines - and what data was collected.

The company told the BBC in a statement: "Lenovo removed Superfish from the preloads of new consumer systems in January 2015. At the same time Superfish disabled existing Lenovo machines in the market from activating Superfish.

Superfish was preloaded on to a select number of consumer models only. Lenovo is thoroughly investigating all and any new concerns raised regarding Superfish." Users began complaining about Superfish in Lenovo's forums in the autumn, and the firm told the BBC that it was shipped "in a short window from October to December to help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping".
Clean install
Lenovo has said that it has removed Superfish from new machines and disabled it from others, it was unclear what the situation would be for machines where it had already been activated.
Prof Woodward said: "Lenovo is being very coy about this but it needs to explain how long it has been doing this, what the scale is and where all the data it has collected is being stored.

"There will be remnants of it left on machines and Lenovo does not ship the disks that allow people to do a clean install."
It raises wider questions about the deals that computer manufacturers do with third parties and the amount of software that comes pre-installed on machines.
Mr Westin said: "With increasingly security and privacy-conscious buyers, laptop and mobile phone manufacturers may well be doing themselves a disservice by seeking outdated advertising based monetisation strategies."
Users were particularly angry that they had not been told about the adware.

One Lenovo forum user said: "It's not like they stuck it on the flier saying... we install adware on our computers so we can profit from our customers by using hidden software.

SAVE TIGERS

Project Tiger was launched in 1973 by the Government of India under its then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The project aims at ensuring a viable population of Bengal tigers in their natural habitats and also to protect them from extinction, and preserving areas of biological importance as a natural heritage forever represented as close as possible the diversity of ecosystems across the tiger's distribution in the country.

The government has set up a Tiger Protection Force to combat poachers and funded relocation of villagers to minimize human-tiger conflicts.
During the tiger census of 2006, a new methodology was used extrapolating site-specific densities of tigers, their co-predators and prey derived from camara trap and sign surveys .Based on the result of these surveys, the total tiger population has been estimated at 1,411 individuals ranging from 1,165 to 1,657 adult and sub-adult tigers of more than 1.5 years of age.Owing to the project, the number of tigers has improved to 2226 as per the latest census report released on January 20, 2015.
  

If the tigers go extinct,the entire system would collapse.The tiger is a unique animal which plays a pivotal role in the health and diversity of an ecosystem. It is a top predator which is at the apex of the food chain and keeps the population of wild ungulates in check, thereby maintaining the balance between prey herbivores and the vegetation upon which they feed. Therefore, the presence of tigers in the forest is an indicator of the well being of the ecosystem. The extinction of this top predator is an indication that its ecosystem is not sufficiently protected, and neither would it exist for long thereafterSo when a species goes extinct, it leaves behind a scar, which affects the entire ecosystem. Another reason why we need to save the tiger is that our forests are water catchment areas. Therefore, it’s not just about saving a beautiful animal. It is about making sure that we live a little longer as the forests are known to provide ecological services like clean air, water, temperature, regulation.

India--- Prime Minister starts Japan visit

The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is starting a five-day visit to Japan this weekend.
The trip is being seen by analysts as an attempt by the two democracies to balance the rising weight of China across Asia.

Deadly landslide in south-west China

At least six people have died and 21 others are missing after a landslide struck a village in south-west China.

China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported that more than 70 houses in the village in Guizhou province were destroyed.
It also said, quoting officials, that 22 people were injured and had been transferred to hospitals for treatment.
The landslide was believed to have been caused by a breach from a small reservoir
Officials said that they were expecting environmental conditions to "bring some difficulties" to ongoing search and rescue operations.
The landslide which struck Yingping village on Wednesday night was the second disaster to hit China's southwestern region this month.

Earlier this month, an earthquake struck a remote region in neighbouring Yunnan province, killing 615 people.

Iraqi forces 'reach besieged Amerli'

Iraqi forces have reached the besieged town of Amerli in northern Iraq, where thousands have been trapped by jihadists, military officials say.

  
The apparent breakthrough comes after the US carried out air strikes overnight on Islamic State (IS) positions near the town.
The UK, France and Australia joined the US in dropping humanitarian aid.

Some 15,000 minority Shia Turkmen in Amerli have been surrounded by Islamic State militants for two months.
.Military sources told BBC Arabic that the Iraqi Army and volunteer militia entered Amerli town on Sunday.
Fifteen Islamic State fighters were said to have been captured.
The operation to reach Amerli began on Saturday when an alliance of Iraq government forces, Shia militias and Kurdish Peshmerga began a two-front attack on IS positions.
US and Iraqi planes provided air cover.
Reports described it as the biggest military operation since IS began making major gains in Iraq in June.
"Security forces and militia fighters are inside Amerli now after breaking the siege and that will definitely relieve the suffering of residents," Adel al-Bayati, mayor of Amerli, told Reuters news agency.
One resident of Amerli, Amir Ismael, told Reuters by phone: "I can see the tanks of the Iraqi army patrolling Amerli's street now. I'm very happy we got rid of the Islamic State terrorists who were threatening to slaughter us.
The UN had expressed fears there could be a massacre if IS took the town, which lies in Kurdish-controlled Iraq.
IS has been accused of atrocities in areas of Iraq and Syria under its control.

The jihadists see the Shia Turkmen in Amerli as apostates.
Islamic State has seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in recent months, including Iraq's second city, Mosul.
Pledging allegiance to their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the jihadists have imposed a harsh form of Islamic rule in areas under their control.
The group has declared a new caliphate, or Islamic state ruled by a religious leader, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has announced himself as caliph.

The IS ideology has attracted would-be jihadists from a number of Western nations, including the UK, and has spread its message aggressively on social media, often posting gruesome pictures of beheadings and mass killings. 

Iraq 'struggling' against Isis militants

Fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) said they seized a border crossing to Syria and two towns in north-west Iraq on Saturday.
Correspondents say Isis appears to be better trained, better equipped and more experienced than the army.
The Sunni extremists attacked the city of Mosul in June and have since seized large swathes of territory across Iraq.

There is deep pessimism in Baghdad about the way the government's war against Isis is going, 
The Iraqi air force ran out of American Hellfire missiles two weeks ago, and in any case only has two Cessna planes capable of firing Hellfires, he adds.

Experts say Isis has established secure safe havens, including some in neighbouring Syria, which will be difficult to target.

On Saturday, Iraqi officials admitted that Isis had seized a border crossing near the town of Qaim, killing 30 troops after a day-long battle.
Rebels also said they had taken the towns of Rawa and Aneh along the Euphrates river.
Correspondents say a campaign along the river may eventually lead to an assault on Baghdad from the west.

The capture of the Qaim crossing in western Iraq could also help Isis transport weapons and other equipment to different battlefields, analysts say.

Calamity-hit Uttarakhand

123 bodies recovered from Kedarnath temple area

Stranded pilgrims climb in a row as they are evacuated by army soldiers in Govindghat on Saturday. Soldiers were working to evacuate tens of thousands of people still stranded in Uttarakhand

As many as 123 bodies were recovered from the Kedarnath shrine premises in Uttarakhand after a team of experts scoured the venue on Saturday. The death toll from the flood calamity is now 680

More bodies may come to the surface in the next couple of days as the slush and debris lying in the area is being removed.

NATIONAL CALAMITY IN[UTTRAKHAND]

Relief efforts are still on in flood-hit Uttarakhand where 97,000 people have been evacuated till Monday.

Still 6,000 are stranded. More than 25 helicopters and about 1,000 vehicles have been pressed into service

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE /PROPERTY

The Public Works Department (PWD), by Monday, had deployed 5,775 employees and 364 heavy machinery for constructing roads.

A total of 549 roads, including the Joshimath, Uttarkashi and Guptkashi roads, which were blocked, had been declared open.

On Monday, 2,000 additional police personnel along with 6,500 Army and paramilitary personnel were undertaking the relief operations.

While people from Kedarnath, Jangalchatti, Ghangria, Gangotri and Guptkashi have been fully evacuated, more than 5,000 pilgrims are still stranded in Badrinath and some at Harsil in Uttarkashi district. 

KEDARNATH TEMPLE BEFORE AND AFTER 

April Sumatra quakes signal Indian ocean plate break-up

The sequence of huge earthquakes that struck off the coast of Sumatra in April may signal the creation of a new tectonic plate boundary.

Scientists give the assessment in this week's Nature journal.
They say their analysis of the tremors - the biggest was a magnitude 8.7 - suggests major changes are taking place on the ocean floor that will eventually split the Indo-Australian plate in two.
It is not something that will happen soon; it could take millions of years.
"This is a process that probably started eight to 10 million years ago, so you can imagine how much longer it will take until we get a classic boundary," said Matthias Delescluse from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.

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Superstar who turned romance, and even death, into high art

Rajesh Khanna, actor, died in Mumbai on 18 July 2012, aged 69. He was born in Amritsar on 29 December 1942. He is survived by two daughters, Twinkle and Rinke.

A rose, a candle, a couplet. Rajesh Khanna, Hindi cinema’s first real superstar who passed away in Mumbai following a prolonged illness on Wednesday, used these props freely and easily to capture for the first time in Indian cinema a romance that was both adult and modern.

He was made less by the characters he played or the lines penned by dialogue writers than his idiosyncratic mannerisms — the drawls, the pauses, the sudden sparkle in his eyes, the fresh and easy smile, and the playful tilt of the head. Even when stricken with cancer, or ‘lymphosarcoma of the intestine — as Anand, a character he played in the film of the same name, was — that tilt and smile barely faltered.

To understand what Rajesh Khanna was or how he altered the persona of the film hero, it is important to stress what he was not. He was not a loveable tramp like Raj Kapoor, nor a tragedy king like Dilip Kumar. He did not trade on his masculinity like Dharmendra and rarely, if ever, played the hero with shades of grey as Dev Anand liked to do. He was the stuff of soft romance, his characters often earnest and virtuous, his performances enhanced by a face that was a fortune and a style of acting that used eyes, lips, hands, and vocal chords to great effect.

He got his break in cinema in Chetan Anand’s Aakhri Khat in 1966 as a result of winning a talent competition.

Syrian children used as human shields, says UN report

Children in Syria have accused troops of using them as human shields, a UN report has revealed.

Some children said they had been forced to ride on tanks to stop attacks by opposition fighters, the report said.
The UN's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict said children were being tortured in detention and slaughtered in massacres.
Radhika Coomaraswamy told the BBC that her team had returned from Syria with "horrific" reports.
She said she had never seen a similar situation where children were not spared - and even targeted - in a conflict.

"Many former soldiers spoke about shooting into civilian areas, seeing children, young children being killed, and maimed," she said.
"We also had testimonies and saw children who had been tortured, and who carried the torture marks with them. We also heard of children being used - this was recounted to us by some children - of being put on tanks and being used as human shields so that the tanks would not be fired upon."
However, she also criticised the opposition Free Syrian Army for endangering children.
"For the first time we heard of children being recruited by the Free Syrian Army mainly in medical and service orientated jobs but still on the front line," she said.

'Shocked'

Ms Coomaraswamy said the suffering inflicted on children in Syria was unusual even for combat situations.

"We are really quite shocked. Killing and maiming of children in cross-fire is something we come across in many conflicts but this torture of children in detention, children as young as 10, is something quite extraordinary, which we don't really see in other places."

She said that in recent massacres children under the age of 10 had been summarily killed, adding: "Those kinds of things we don't see elsewhere."

The UN's annual report on children and armed conflict cited one attack on the village of Ayn l'Arouz in Idlib province on 9 March 2012.

It quoted a witness saying how several young children were forcibly taken from their homes and "used by soldiers and militia members as human shields, placing them in front of the windows of buses carrying military personnel into the raid on the village".

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US drone attack 'targeted al-Qaeda deputy'

A US drone strike on Monday in Pakistan targeted al-Qaeda's second-in-command Abu Yahya al-Libi, US officials say.

They say it is still unclear whether he was among those killed in the strike on a suspected militant compound in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border.
Two missiles by the unmanned aircraft killed 15 people, Pakistani officials say.
Pakistan's foreign ministry strongly condemned the strike, calling it "illegal", Reuters news agency reports.
'Major blow' A senior US official told the BBC that Libi was the target of Monday's morning strike in Hesokhel, to the east of Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan.
The first missile struck the compound, killing three militants, Pakistani security officials said. 

A second missile then killed 12 more militants who had arrived at the scene, they added.
If Libi's death is confirmed, it would be a "major blow to core of al-Qaeda", the US official told the BBC.

Washington believes that following Osama Bin Laden's death last year, Libi, an Islamic scholar from Libya, became al-Qaeda's second-in-command after Egyptian born Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Libi is reportedly in charge of day-to-day operations in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Libi was reported killed in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2009, but it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.
Pakistan's frontier tribal region is considered a hub of activity by al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
There have been eight US drone strikes in the past two weeks despite Pakistani demands for them to be stopped.

Kazakhstan court jails 13 over Zhanaozen riots

A court in Kazakhstan has jailed 13 people for their role in deadly riots last December in the remote desert oil town of Zhanaozen.

Thirty-seven defendants, mostly oil workers, were tried after seven months of industrial action ended in rioting.
At least 15 people were killed in the unrest and more than 100 injured.
The violence in Zhanaozen was the worst unrest seen in Kazakhstan since its independence from the Soviet Union more than 20 years ago.
The 13 defendants were given sentences of up to seven years; 16 others received conditional sentences and the remaining defendants were either given amnesties or acquitted.
The hearings were conducted at a youth centre that had been turned into a makeshift courtroom in the Caspian port city of Aktau, about 150km (96 miles) west of Zhanaozen.

'Bottles thrown'

The BBC's Central Asia correspondent Rayhan Demytrie says the scenes in the courtroom where chaotic.
Relatives of the defendants reportedly threw plastic bottles at the judge, amid claims those accused were tortured during the investigation.
Five policemen tried separately for their role in the violence were jailed last week for up to seven years for abuse of power.
Witnesses say that police fired on and beat unarmed protesters, leading to the deaths of at least 15 people.
Security officials maintain they were acting in self defence.
The workers had been striking to demanding better pay and conditions, but the oil company responded by sacking them.
Correspondents say the violence has tarnished the country's image of stability, which has been carefully cultivated by President Nursultan Nazarbayev over the past two decades.
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Some G.O.P. Foreign Policy Experts Are Tepid on Romney

The next election barely five months away and Mitt Romney gearing up for a tough battle with President Obama, Mr. Kissinger, a former Republican secretary of state, remains on the sidelines. The reason, according to several Republicans familiar with the matter: concerns about Mr. Romney’s aggressive statements on trade policy toward China, a keen issue for Mr. Kissinger, who helped reopen relations with China and who later, as a consultant, has had clients with significant interests there.

As Republican leaders fell in behind Mr. Romney this spring, many members of the party’s foreign policy establishment have been more muted. Reluctance by this group to come forward for Mr. Romney more quickly reflects an unease over some of his positions, including his hard line on Russia and opposition to a new missile treaty.

Mr. Romney will soon get a boost, however: Condoleezza Rice is expected to endorse him formally on Wednesday night when she headlines a fund-raiser for him near San Francisco, according to one of her aides and a Romney aide.

She would join Frank C. Carlucci, a defense secretary under President Ronald Reagan, and Stephen J. Hadley, a national security adviser under President George W. Bush, in officially backing Mr. Romney. Other Republican foreign policy stalwarts are likely to endorse him once they get a chance to discuss their differences with him directly.

But some nevertheless believe that Mr. Romney has taken approaches too confrontational or too hawkish, or worry that harsh campaign-trail statements could hurt later diplomatic efforts and may signal a drift toward neoconservative passions as the party seeks to take back the White House, say Republicans familiar with the discussions.

Some longtime deans of the Republican establishment, like Brent Scowcroft, the two-time national security adviser, believe the party as a whole has drifted rightward. Mr. Scowcroftdeclined a request for an interview, but he has recently voiced opinions at odds with Mr. Romney’s.

For example, a seeming eagerness to follow the cues of Israeli leaders has at times left Mr. Romney with what appears to be a dim view of the need to press Israelis and Palestinians toward a settlement, which many old-line Republican experts see as crucial to stability in the Middle East and cultivating ties with the Arab world. “I don’t think America should play the role of the leader of the peace process; instead we should stand by our ally,” he told an Israeli newspaper last year, referring to Israel. 

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Tornadoes kill five in US Midwest

Tornadoes have hit a large swathe of the US Midwest, killing at least five people in Oklahoma, officials say.Twisters were also reported in Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska as the storm front swept east.The deaths occurred before dawn in the town of Woodward, Oklahoma, after warning sirens failed to sound, officials said. A tornado there caused extensive damage, mainly in the west of the town. At least 29 people were injured.The National Weather Service had forecast further tornadoes early Sunday morning, with concern they could strike as people slept.

Officials feared people would not hear warnings as they slept and said that it was more difficult for weather spotters to track the funnel clouds overnight.

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Rescue teams searched rubble for people trapped or wounded in Woodward, where high winds damaged homes, uprooted trees and brought down electricity lines, the Associated Press reported.

A block of flats was also damaged by the twister, after residents were caught by surprise as the storm sirens had failed to sound, Reuters news agency quoted the local mayor as saying.

This thing took us by surprise," Keli Cain, spokeswoman for Oklahoma Emergency Management, told the agency. "It's kind of overwhelming."

"They're still going door to door and in some cases there are piles of rubble and they are having to sift through the rubble," one of Ms Cain's deputies, Michelann Ooten, told AP.In Iowa, a tornado destroyed large parts of the town of Thurman, on Saturday, but there were no major injuries, the NWS said.

"It lasted three to four minutes probably - what seemed like an eternity," one man from Thurman told the broadcaster ABC."The next thing I know, the house was shaking and I could feel it lifting and it was over that quick," another man said.
Another twister caused widespread power outages and other damage in the city of Wichita, Kansas, according to Associated Press. The roof of a hospital in Creston, southwest of Des Moines, was damaged, but patients and staff were not hurt, AP reported.
Tornado experts had said that storms on Saturday could be a "life-threatening event".

US tornadoes have already killed at least 39 people in 2012.

An outbreak of deadly twisters hit the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia and Alabama in early March. At the start of April the Dallas-Fort Worth area was badly hit, with hundreds of flights being disrupted but no-one injured or killed.

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8.9 magnitude quake rocks Indonasia, tsunami warning issued

2:42 pm: Tsunami warning issued in 28 nations.
2:40 pm: Tremors felt in Bangalore, Ooty and Bhubaneshwar as well.

2:35 pm: According to USGS, at 1:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time on April 11, an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 8.7 occurred off the west coast of northern Sumatera, Indonesia .
2:30 pm: Mild tremors felt in Chennai, Kolkata and Guwahati after earthquake in Indonesia
2:20 pm: Tsunami warning issued
2:15 pm: 8.9 magnitude quake rocks Indonasia.

Damage assessment begins after Fiji floods

Fiji's government is sending teams to assess damage caused by days of severe flooding that killed at least five and forced thousands out of their homes.

A state of emergency was declared in the South Pacific nation on Sunday.
Authorities feared the worst on Monday with a tropical cyclone bringing more rain and strong gales, but the worst appears to be over, says Information Secretary Sharon Smith-Johns.
The survey teams will also distribute food rations in affected areas.
''We have also organised teams to make aerial assessments which will happen today. As of yesterday we had dispatched two boats,'' Pajiliai Dobui, director of the disaster management centre, DISMAC, told Fiji Broadcasting Corporation.
Some Fijians had begun returning to their homes, as the rain stopped and waters began to recede, said Ms Smith-Johns.

Some 8,000 people have been taking shelter in evacuation centres on the largest island of Viti Levu for days as the floods have cut off water and electricity to some areas.
Thousands of tourists - many of whom are Australians - were also left stranded in the country when flights were cut off over the weekend.
They are expected to be able to leave Fiji today as flights resume, Australian media reported.
Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who has been visiting affected areas, has called for a solution to the country's flooding problems, saying that this was ''three to four times worse'' than the last devastating flood in 2009.Flooding in January this year in the Pacific island nation left at least six dead.
''We have to make some hard and fast decisions on what to do with infrastructure, with our rivers and our dredging together with a whole lot of other issues so we don't continue to get bogged down every time there is heavy rain," he said.

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