Turkey's vice president Fuat Oktay said 284 people had been killed. A Syrian health official said more than 230 people had been killed and some 600 injured.
Published in Nature Geoscience, researchers from Peking University highlighted in a paper that Earth's inner core which rotates faster than mantle, began to spin slower around 2009.
The 5.6-magnitude quake struck in the afternoon in Indonesia's West Java province, causing significant damage to the town of Cianjur and burying one village under a landslide.
At the epicentre Cianjur, several homes and an Islamic boarding school were damaged. The national disaster agency has reported 14 deaths while a local official noted 300 injuries.
On 12 September 1947, deputy PM Vallabhbhai Patel addressed the nation 'with a heavy heart and in obedience to the call of duty' to call for an end to the communal violence and unspeakable brutalities.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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