Ground Zero Reports

A citizen journalist detained in China after reporting from the Covid-19 ground zero of Wuhan will face trial later this month, her lawyer said Friday, as fears grow for her health.

A frenzied crowd on rampage, booing, catcalling and shrieking, setting fire to bikes and a vehicle outside the Ice House Police station - the closest to Chennai's Marina beach, where the protest against Jallikattu was being held.

Survivors of the American nuclear bombing of Hiroshima will be present when US President Barack Obama lays a wreath at ground zero this week, reports said Wednesday.

Small, diminutive in behaviour and taciturn in nature, 60-year-old Bilal looked lost as he slowly made his way to the local mosque for the customary Friday prayers this afternoon in Basera village of Uttar Pradesh.

In Greece, most are yet to make up their minds about which way they'll vote and many say they aren't even sure what exactly a 'yes' or a 'no' vote could mean for them.

At the Thoubar village in Manipur, about 10 kilometres from the spot where 18 Armymen were killed by insurgents who ambushed them on Thursday, there is not a single soul around in a village of at least 50 huts.

Located right on what's called the Zero Line, parts of the Hiranagar sector in Jammu are a short distance away from Pakistani posts across the International Border. This is where there were some cross-border exchanges overnight, though very few compared to last week. This is a welcome sign for villagers in the area who for the last several days fac...

As rescue efforts start to wrap up in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, the next step for the administration is to comprehensively account for the dead and missing. Rough estimates put the figure between 1800-3000. It could go even higher.

As NDTV's crew negotiated the bumpy road to murdered Congress leader Mahindra Karma's native village in Chhattisgarh, a marked difference could be seen. Security personnel were out in large numbers, scanning every inch for a possible threat. But two days ago, this was not the case when Mr Karma was shot in cold blood while returning from a politica...

Just when it seems that the troubled parts of lower Assam would finally get back it's normal routine, hopes are belied. Last evening, when a group of people were returning to their village, they were waylaid and 5 people lost their lives. The local administration went by the easiest option in a bureaucrat's rulebook and imposed "indefinite curfew."...

A serious humanitarian crisis is playing out in the riot-affected districts of lower Assam, with as many as four lakh people forced into relief camps across the districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Dhubri and a few other places. The exodus of people from the interior villages to these relief camps has still not ended, and those in these camps face an u...

A magisterial inquiry has been ordered by the District Magistrate of Bijapur into last Friday's Basaguda encounter. About 17 people, allegedly Maoists, were all killed in the encounter near Sakerguda village, about 3 Km from Basaguda, in a joint operation of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Chhattisgarh Police. However, now reports ...

The smell of burning filled the air at the scene of Friday's deadly plane crash on the outskirts of Islamabad, where chunks of charred wreckage lay scattered across farmland.

An uneasy calm prevails at Idinthakarai in Tamil Nadu - Ground Zero of the protests against the Kudankulam nuclear plant- ahead of an imminent arrest of Dr S P Udhayakumar, the man who has led the charge against the controversial power project.

It is India's most ambitious township projects. But construction is frozen at the Lavasa township near Mumbai for the sixth consecutive day after the Union Environment Ministry issued a show-cause notice pointing out huge environmental violations.NDTV visits the township to bring this exclusive report.Spread over 12,000 acres, Lavasa claims to be I...

A citizen journalist detained in China after reporting from the Covid-19 ground zero of Wuhan will face trial later this month, her lawyer said Friday, as fears grow for her health.

A frenzied crowd on rampage, booing, catcalling and shrieking, setting fire to bikes and a vehicle outside the Ice House Police station - the closest to Chennai's Marina beach, where the protest against Jallikattu was being held.

Survivors of the American nuclear bombing of Hiroshima will be present when US President Barack Obama lays a wreath at ground zero this week, reports said Wednesday.

Small, diminutive in behaviour and taciturn in nature, 60-year-old Bilal looked lost as he slowly made his way to the local mosque for the customary Friday prayers this afternoon in Basera village of Uttar Pradesh.

In Greece, most are yet to make up their minds about which way they'll vote and many say they aren't even sure what exactly a 'yes' or a 'no' vote could mean for them.

At the Thoubar village in Manipur, about 10 kilometres from the spot where 18 Armymen were killed by insurgents who ambushed them on Thursday, there is not a single soul around in a village of at least 50 huts.

Located right on what's called the Zero Line, parts of the Hiranagar sector in Jammu are a short distance away from Pakistani posts across the International Border. This is where there were some cross-border exchanges overnight, though very few compared to last week. This is a welcome sign for villagers in the area who for the last several days fac...

As rescue efforts start to wrap up in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, the next step for the administration is to comprehensively account for the dead and missing. Rough estimates put the figure between 1800-3000. It could go even higher.

As NDTV's crew negotiated the bumpy road to murdered Congress leader Mahindra Karma's native village in Chhattisgarh, a marked difference could be seen. Security personnel were out in large numbers, scanning every inch for a possible threat. But two days ago, this was not the case when Mr Karma was shot in cold blood while returning from a politica...

Just when it seems that the troubled parts of lower Assam would finally get back it's normal routine, hopes are belied. Last evening, when a group of people were returning to their village, they were waylaid and 5 people lost their lives. The local administration went by the easiest option in a bureaucrat's rulebook and imposed "indefinite curfew."...

A serious humanitarian crisis is playing out in the riot-affected districts of lower Assam, with as many as four lakh people forced into relief camps across the districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Dhubri and a few other places. The exodus of people from the interior villages to these relief camps has still not ended, and those in these camps face an u...

A magisterial inquiry has been ordered by the District Magistrate of Bijapur into last Friday's Basaguda encounter. About 17 people, allegedly Maoists, were all killed in the encounter near Sakerguda village, about 3 Km from Basaguda, in a joint operation of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Chhattisgarh Police. However, now reports ...

The smell of burning filled the air at the scene of Friday's deadly plane crash on the outskirts of Islamabad, where chunks of charred wreckage lay scattered across farmland.

An uneasy calm prevails at Idinthakarai in Tamil Nadu - Ground Zero of the protests against the Kudankulam nuclear plant- ahead of an imminent arrest of Dr S P Udhayakumar, the man who has led the charge against the controversial power project.

It is India's most ambitious township projects. But construction is frozen at the Lavasa township near Mumbai for the sixth consecutive day after the Union Environment Ministry issued a show-cause notice pointing out huge environmental violations.NDTV visits the township to bring this exclusive report.Spread over 12,000 acres, Lavasa claims to be I...