The Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan closed its last running reactor on Saturday, after the March quake left another plant in the north-east leaking radioactive material, its operator said.Chubu Electric Co shut reactor five on Saturday amid concerns over its location near a fault line in Shizuoka prefecture.
An earthquake of 4.9 magnitude today shook the Kashmir Valley but there were no reports of any loss in the tremor, officials said here.The moderate intensity tremor, which was recorded at 3.09 am this morning, had its epicentre in Hindukush mountain range in Afghanistan, Coordinator of Disaster Management Cell Aamir Ali said. | Assam Result Status | |||
Status Known For 126 out of 126 Constituencies | |||
| Party | Won | Leading | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Indian National Congress | 78 | 0 | 78 |
| All India Trinamool Congress | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All India United Democratic Front | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| Asom Gana Parishad | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Bodoland Peoples Front | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| Others | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Scientists have developed what they claim is a 15-minute online test which can help detect the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.A team at Oxford University has developed the online quiz called the Cognitive Function Test which it claims could help diagnose the most common form of dementia perhaps years earlier than it might normally be spotted. 
The Bharatiya Janata Party gained three Assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat in the recent by-elections, results of which were announced on Friday.It was a major loss for the Congress as it lost one Assembly seat each in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Nagaland, besides the Kadapa Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh.Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy (son of the former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy) and his mother Y.S. Vijayamma won respectively from the Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh for the YSR Congress Party. They had vacated the seats after resigning from the Congress and forming their own party.
The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today announced a slew of measures to assist in Afghanistan's reconstruction efforts. These include Small Development Projects across Afghan provinces to further facilitate development at the grassroots with the involvement of local communities in areas of Health, Education and Agriculture. Addressing a joint session of the Afghan Parliament in Kabul, Dr. Singh said India and Afghanistan face similar development challenges. 
A new facility for students and faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, built with a one million-dollar grant from Labour peer Swraj Paul, was opened on Friday and will be the new home for its School of Management.The grant was made through the Ambika Paul Foundation, set up by Lord Paul in 1978 in memory of his daughter Ambika who died of leukaemia in 1968 at the age of four.
Russia has warned the West against repeating the “Libya scenario” in Syria and accused the NATO of overstepping the United Nations mandate for Libya.Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow was “very worried” that the process of reconciliation in Syria “is being slowed down by a desire of some participants to draw in foreign forces to support their actions”.
Breaking the Red citadel, Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress ended the 34-year hegemony of the Left Front in West Bengal, while Jayalalithaa's AIADMK scored a landslide victory to oust DMK from power in Tamil Nadu as results of the assembly elections were out on Friday. 
India today signed a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with the Republic of Colombia for the avoidance of double taxation and for the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income. The Agreement was signed by Shri Sudhir Chandra, Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes on behalf of the Government of India and by Mr. Juan Alfredo Pinto Saavedra, Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia to India, on behalf of the Republic of Colombia. 
Kerala may not have kicked its much-discussed habit of electing a new State government every five years, but it has certainly bucked the decadal trend of giving massive victories and humiliating defeats to the two rival formations. Thus it is that the Congress-led United Democratic Front has ascended power in the State with a slender margin of four seats on a vote share of 46.03 per cent.