Multiple major earthquakes rocked wide swathes of Turkey and neighbouring Syria on Monday, killing more than 2,400 people and injuring thousands more as it toppled hundreds of buildings and trapped residents under mounds of rubble. The worst tremor to strike Turkey this century, it came before sunrise in harsh weather and was followed in the early afternoon by another large quake of magnitude 7.5, and dozens of aftershocks. |
THE BIG STORY Rubble, death as quakes pound Turkey and Syria The most powerful earthquake to strike Turkey and Syria in nearly a century killed thousands on Monday, sparked frantic rescues, and was felt as far away as Greenland, leaving large urban centres in rubble and raising fears that the true death toll could be several times more. Read more. |
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THE BIG QUESTION Why did the third attempt for MCD mayoral polls fail? The Capital’s elected municipal council members failed for the third time to elect a mayor for the city on Monday after a series of controversial decisions by the presiding officer, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member, triggered outrage from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has the majority in the House. While things did not come to a chaotic pass as they had exactly a month ago – the first Municipal Corporation Delhi (MCD) House meeting on January 6 descended into a brawl among members – the developments on Monday saw allegations and counter-allegations of poaching and violations of constitutional norms. Read more. |
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 He’s used stainless steel and mirrors, red wax and PVC membranes, water and Vantablack, to create his iconic, giant sculptures. If you know him for “The Bean” in Chicago, now there’s a “Mini Bean” in New York. No relation with Boney, Anil and Sanjay. Who? |
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FROM THE EDIT PAGE Play it safe on the economy this year With the Union Budget and the Economic Survey behind us, has India’s economic pitch changed? What are the main opportunities, risks and challenges? This Budget was a prime example of having your cake and eating it too. It trod the fine line between fiscal consolidation and supporting growth, by simultaneously batting for a fall in the fiscal deficit equivalent to 0.5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and a rise in capital expenditure (capex) worth 0.7% of GDP. Read more. |
FROM THE FIELD Fossils a way of life for Narmada’s ‘Dinosaur Man’ Vishal Verma, 52, remembers the day he first held a dinosaur egg in his hands. It was the winter of 2006, and Verma was in the process of guiding a PhD scholar around fossil sites on the banks of the river Narmada, something he had done several times before. Earlier that year, Verma had helped the Madhya Pradesh government set up the Archaeological Museum in Mandu to store fossilised discoveries from the river basin. In his mind, therefore, it was to be one of his last excavations. Read more. |
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 Anish Kapoor |
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HT This Day: February 7, 1948 Gandhiji against search of visitors  (Click to expand) Sardar Patel added sorrowfully: “The weak spot both I and the police had apprehended was deceitfully and successfully exploited by the assassin and Gandhiji’s prophetic words that ‘if he had to die no precaution could save him’ came true.” Read more. |
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