Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow, stray gas worked into tiny crevasses in the […]
Who will be next PM of India?
The bugle for battle royal of ballot has been blown and official announcement is matter of a few weeks from now. The political parties have started their strategic deployments and to look for allies and prospective candidates and some have even gone a step further by announcing candidates for some of the constituencies. So […]
Survivors Observe 3rd Anniversary of Pakistan Quake
Balakot: The morning of the 8th October 2005 brought havoc on the people of Balakot and Azad Kashmir when deadly earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale jolted the north eastern parts of Pakistan and within seconds thousands of people either killed or left homeless in the far-flung areas of the country. The disaster […]
Tweeting and Blogging an Earthquake in Bangladesh
Posted by Rezwan to Global Voices Online A moderate earthquake jolted Dhaka city on the 27th of July approximately at 00:51 hours Bangladesh Time (+6 GMT). Russell John reports in his blog: I was lying on my bed talking to a friend on the phone, and I suddenly felt that the bed was shaking. Within […]