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Army's Gajaraj Corps and Indian Air Force (IAF), Tezpur, on Sunday activated disaster management mechanism for providing medical relief to people in earthquake-hit Nepal.

Air India was able to operate two flight in the morning, one each from Delhi and Kolkata with 118 and 45 passengers on board.

Dr. C P Rajendran predicts that aftershocks of Saturday's earthquake are likely to continue for a month in the great Himalayan region.

Ramdev, who is in Kathmandu for a yoga camp, is safe, his spokesperson said after a massive earthquake shook Nepal.

An AIFF official said that the team will be brought back to India on Sunday by the military aircraft.

Hashtags like #Pray4Nepal, #NepalEarthquake, #CandleLightVigil, #Dharahara and #earthquake trended through the day with millions of tweets and posts appearing on social media.

In a hard-hitting statement, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Zeid Ra'ad Al Husein said Katie Hopkins had used language similar to that employed by some Rwandan media outlets in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, and by the Nazis in the 1930s.

"Next, it will be Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Namal Rajapaksa and Yoshitha Rajapaksa", the former Presi

Police said they were issuing 18 arrest warrants in the operation centred on the Italian island of Sardinia and involving seven Italian provinces. Some of the arrests had already taken place.

For his part, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the prince is not yet 21 years old, but he is already a leader in the 21st century.

Murthy, who took the oath on the Gita, is now the highest ranking Indian-American in the US President Barack Obama Administration.

President Barack Obama warned Iran on Tuesday not to send weapons to Yemen that could be used to threaten shipping traffic in the region.

Basil Rajapaksa, the powerful economic development minister under the former regime of his brother Mahinda, has been arrested, police said.

In 2005, LeT asked him to change his name from Dawood Gilani to a "Christian sounding name" so that he could travel easily between the US, India and Pakistan

The attack on Saturday at a state-owned bank where government workers were drawing their salaries was the first in Afghanistan claimed by IS.

Air Canada had halted flights on the Toronto-Delhi route in 2005 as the service had become a poor financial performer in the airline's global network.