Bihar Quake

People in northern India, including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, fled their homes in fear late Friday after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Nepal. High-rise residents fled to the streets as the tremors lasted for over a minute.

People on Twitter started posting 'stay safe' tweets after it was reported that an earthquake of 3.5 magnitude had struck near Nalanda in Bihar on Monday night.

Minor tremors were felt in several parts of Bihar, including state capital Patna, after an aftershock measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit Nepal this evening.

The National Disaster Response Force has been put on alert after two earthquakes struck India with epicentres in Nepal.

Two people have died in India after a powerful earthquake rocked neighbouring Nepal on Tuesday, state officials said.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today took part in a special prayer in the world famous Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya for the people killed in the devastating earthquake which hit Nepal and the state.

Bihar government has ordered an inquiry into row over pasting of 'bhukamp' stickers on the foreheads of injured brought to the Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) after Saturday's earthquake.

25-year-old Firoz Alam waited for over two hours at a relief camp in Bihar's Raxaul town on the border with Nepal, for a two-minute meeting with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das and his cabinet members, today, decided to donate a month's salary as assistance to earthquake-hit Nepal and Bihar.

At a hospital in Bihar, people injured in the earthquake that struck Nepal and parts of India on Saturday were today "marked" with stickers on their forehead.

Bihar truckers and bus operators today decided to defer their one-day strike on April 30 against the Centre's Transport Safety Bill and collection of toll tax on 49 bridges by the Bihar government for relief operations in earthquake-devastated Nepal and Bihar.

Nearly 100 buses of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation are queued up at the bus stand, and luggage is being loaded on them, batch by batch. A first batch of five buses, carrying hundreds of Indians, left for Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning. Another batch would leave for Bihar in the afternoon.

Already battling Saturday's high intensity earthquake and aftershocks, major parts of Bihar were today hit by thunder squall followed by rains hampering relief work.

As the number of deaths in Saturday's earthquake climb to 72 in India, India's relief efforts in Nepal, where over 4,000 people have died, have been stepped up. But though medical teams and relief material is flowing into Kathmandu, aircraft are encountering difficulty landing into the congested Tribhuban airport.

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today charged the Bihar government with showing "sloppy" attitude to natural calamities like storms and earthquakes saying while the Centre was time and again promising to extend all help, the Nitish Kumar Ministry was not utilising it.

People in northern India, including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, fled their homes in fear late Friday after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Nepal. High-rise residents fled to the streets as the tremors lasted for over a minute.

People on Twitter started posting 'stay safe' tweets after it was reported that an earthquake of 3.5 magnitude had struck near Nalanda in Bihar on Monday night.

Minor tremors were felt in several parts of Bihar, including state capital Patna, after an aftershock measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit Nepal this evening.

The National Disaster Response Force has been put on alert after two earthquakes struck India with epicentres in Nepal.

Two people have died in India after a powerful earthquake rocked neighbouring Nepal on Tuesday, state officials said.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today took part in a special prayer in the world famous Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya for the people killed in the devastating earthquake which hit Nepal and the state.

Bihar government has ordered an inquiry into row over pasting of 'bhukamp' stickers on the foreheads of injured brought to the Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) after Saturday's earthquake.

25-year-old Firoz Alam waited for over two hours at a relief camp in Bihar's Raxaul town on the border with Nepal, for a two-minute meeting with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das and his cabinet members, today, decided to donate a month's salary as assistance to earthquake-hit Nepal and Bihar.

At a hospital in Bihar, people injured in the earthquake that struck Nepal and parts of India on Saturday were today "marked" with stickers on their forehead.

Bihar truckers and bus operators today decided to defer their one-day strike on April 30 against the Centre's Transport Safety Bill and collection of toll tax on 49 bridges by the Bihar government for relief operations in earthquake-devastated Nepal and Bihar.

Nearly 100 buses of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation are queued up at the bus stand, and luggage is being loaded on them, batch by batch. A first batch of five buses, carrying hundreds of Indians, left for Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning. Another batch would leave for Bihar in the afternoon.

Already battling Saturday's high intensity earthquake and aftershocks, major parts of Bihar were today hit by thunder squall followed by rains hampering relief work.

As the number of deaths in Saturday's earthquake climb to 72 in India, India's relief efforts in Nepal, where over 4,000 people have died, have been stepped up. But though medical teams and relief material is flowing into Kathmandu, aircraft are encountering difficulty landing into the congested Tribhuban airport.

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today charged the Bihar government with showing "sloppy" attitude to natural calamities like storms and earthquakes saying while the Centre was time and again promising to extend all help, the Nitish Kumar Ministry was not utilising it.