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Why the earthquake in Morocco has caused so much damage

People inspect their damaged homes after an earthquake in Moulay Ibrahim village, near Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 800 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. But the full toll was not known as rescuers struggled to get through boulder-strewn roads to the remote mountain villages hit hardest. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)

Morocco’s Interior Ministry said Saturday morning that at least 632 people had died, mostly in Marrakech and five provinces near the quake’s epicentre, The Associated Press reported. Another 329 people were injured. Casualties are expected to rise as search for the missing continues and rescuers make it to remote areas in the Atlas mountains. World leaders have extended their condolences and offers for help for the north African nation, even as aftershocks continued to reverberate, keeping people on their toes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a tweet Saturday morning, offered “all possible assistance” to Morocco. Shallow and dangerous As per the US Geological Survey,

G20 adopts New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration in significant victory for India

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New Delhi, Sep 9 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced the adoption of the New Delhi Leaders Declaration, a significant victory for India’s G20 presidency that came amid increasing tensions and divergent views over the Ukraine conflict. The announcement about the consensus on the declaration and its subsequent adoption came hours after India circulated a new text to the G20 countries to describe the Ukraine conflict. “Friends, we have just got good news, with the hard work of our teams, and with the cooperation of you all, there is consensus on the New Delhi G20 Summit Leaders Declaration,”

Chandrayaan-2 takes a photograph of Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-2 takes a photograph of Chandrayaan-3

New Delhi [India], September 9 (ANI): The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter which was already around the Moon captured an image of the Chandrayaan-3 lander that made a successful lunar soft landing on its South Pole. “Chandrayaan-3 lander is imaged by the Dual-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (DFSAR) instrument onboard the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter on September 6, 2023,” ISRO said. In a significant development, the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter had established a two-way connection with the lander module of Chandrayaan-3 days ahead of its soft landing in August. Also, a NASA satellite — Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) – recently captured an image of the Chandrayaan-3 landing site. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is currently near the Moon’s South Pole since its successful soft landing on August

Modi uses ‘Bharat’ for G20 nameplate, not India, amid name-change row

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NEW DELHI, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s placard at the opening of the G20 summit on Saturday referred to India as “Bharat”, raising speculation of a change of name for the South Asian nation. India is also called Bharat, Bharata, Hindustan – its pre-colonial names – in Indian languages and these are used interchangeably by the public and officially. While the country has traditionally stuck to using India in titles such as president or prime minister while communicating in English, President Droupadi Murmu earlier this week referred to herself as the “President of Bharat” in a dinner

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