The quake, at a depth of 10km (6 miles), hit 68km southwest of Panguna.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami warning was in effect for Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 was recorded off Papua New Guinea's remote Bougainville Island on April 11, but there were no reports of damage.
The announcement of Modi's nomination filing date has ended days of speculation with media reports claiming that Modi would file nomination on April 22 as astrologically this is the day that suits Modi the most.
However, talking to media persons on Saturday at state BJP headquarters, Shah said that Modi would be filing his nomination papers on April 24.
Shah, who was flanked by co in charge of BJP Sunil Bansal, said that once Modi files the nomination from Varanasi, the winds of change that were blowing until now would turn into a Tsunami.
Interestingly, Modi would be filing the nomination on the last day of the nomination date for the phase which would also be the last in UP.
Shah claimed that in the first two phases of the elections held so far in UP, as per his report, BJP is all set to get 18 out of the total 21 seats that went to the polls.
Taking a dig at Congress party, Shah said that the Congress party has dearth of relevant issues and hence it was making personal attacks.
The announcement of Modi's nomination filing date has ended days of speculation with media reports claiming that Modi would file nomination on April 22 as astrologically this is the day that suits Modi the most.
However, talking to media persons on Saturday at state BJP headquarters, Shah said that Modi would be filing his nomination papers on April 24.
Shah, who was flanked by co in charge of BJP Sunil Bansal, said that once Modi files the nomination from Varanasi, the winds of change that were blowing until now would turn into a Tsunami.
Interestingly, Modi would be filing the nomination on the last day of the nomination date for the phase which would also be the last in UP.
Shah claimed that in the first two phases of the elections held so far in UP, as per his report, BJP is all set to get 18 out of the total 21 seats that went to the polls.
Taking a dig at Congress party, Shah said that the Congress party has dearth of relevant issues and hence it was making personal attacks.
Sheikh Abdul Rashid Masood was arrested after the police raided a lodge in the old city and rescued a 13-year-old girl from a poor Muslim family.
Six other people including two brokers and a 'qazi' (priest) were also arrested by the police. They were taken to Bhavaninagar police station, where they were being questioned.
The Oman national, aged around 50, allegedly paid money to the girl's parents, brokers and even the 'qazi' to perform the marriage. The family members of Gousuddin, the 'qazi', however claimed that he is innocent as the girl's age was shown as 19 in the documents given to him.
The parents of the girl were also unable to give a convincing reply to the police about whether the marriage was performed with their consent. Masood reportedly gave Rs 40,000 each to the two brokers to arrange the marriage.
Many cases of aged Arab nationals marrying young girls from poor families in the old city have come to light during the last few years. In 2012, the police had busted a racket involving a 'qazi' who had performed marriages of foreigners with girls from poverty-stricken families.
According to police, these foreigners use local brokers and even 'qazis' to entice the parents of the girls with money.
Officials laid wreaths and the group said prayers at the monument to the Ghetto Heroes on Saturday.
Next, they walked to the former Umschlag Platz, where in 1943 Nazis had loaded ghetto residents on cattle wagons to take them to the Treblinka camp.
About half a million Warsaw's Jews died there.
When it was clear that all residents were to be sent to death, some 750 untrained and poorly armed Jews in desperation put up resistance on April 19, 1943. Within weeks, the Nazis crushed the revolt, most fighters were killed and the ghetto was razed.
The court held that the dying declarations of the victim were contradictory and not enough for the conviction of 42-year-old Akaram Malappa Aaivale, who was in jail since being held guilty in April 2007 by a Kolhapur sessions court for the death of Vijaymala, his wife of 22 years. Also, it said, the evidence could not rule out suicide.
He too had sustained 10 per cent burn injuries in the incident which occurred in 2006. Being aggrieved, he filed an appeal in the high court which set him free two days ago, by giving him the benefit of doubt on account of "weak evidence".
"In our opinion, the conviction of the appellant cannot be sustained on the basis of dying declaration alone. All other witnesses, including the daughter of the appellant and mother of deceased Vijaymala, did not support the prosecution and were declared hostile," said a bench headed by Justice P V Hardas.
The court also took into account the evidence tendered by the mother of deceased that on account of the demise of Vijaymala's son-in-law, the latter had become mentally disturbed.
"In such a situation, therefore, according to us the possibility of deceased Vijaymala committing suicide on account of trivial quarrel between the appellant and Vijaymala cannot be ruled out," said the judges.
Moreover, the judges held that Dr Shashikant Dhumale has admitted that injuries sustained by the appellant were possible in an attempt at dousing the flames.
The possibility of Vijaymala committing suicide is certainly rendered probable in the light of the dying declaration as recorded in medical case papers, the bench observed.
The entire evidence rested on two declarations given by the deceased to Nayab Tehsildar Ranjeet Desai and head constable Dinkar Kawale.
According to the prosecution, the husband had killed his wife as he suspected her character.
However, the court held that in the dying declaration recorded by the head constable, there is no reference to the appellant suspecting the chastity of Vijaymala prior to the day of the incident.
"It is unbelievable that the appellant after more than 22 years of the marriage would suddenly start suspecting the chastity of his wife on the day of the incident and set her ablaze," the judges observed.
In the dying declaration recorded by the constable, Vijaymala had stated that she had been set ablaze by the appellant as he was suspecting her character. She said that the appellant had poured kerosene from a container and lit a match-stick and set her ablaze.
However, in the history narrated and which is found in medical case papers in another dying declaration recorded by Nayab Tahsildar, there is a total absence of any averment about the appellant setting Vijaymala ablaze, the bench noted.
"All that is stated is that Vijaymala had sustained burns at 4.45 p.m. or one hour prior to her admission in the hospital," the bench said.
Vijaymala had an opportunity of informing the Medical Officer that the appellant had set her ablaze. In fact, the statement that she was set ablaze by the appellant had been scored out in medical case papers, the judges said.
"The prosecution has made no attempts at explaining the reason for scoring out the said part of the sentence. It would thus be seen that if Vijaymala was really conscious and as per the medical evidence she indeed was conscious, she would have disclosed to the Medical Officer that it was the appellant who had set her ablaze", the bench observed.
"In fact, Vijaymala makes a reference to the kerosene from the stove and does not refer to kerosene being poured by the appellant from a container. There is a total absence of the statement that the appellant had poured kerosene and had set Vijaymala ablaze", the bench said.
The disclosure made to Medical Officer, which is the Vijaymala's first dying declaration, runs counter to another declaration given to the constable, the bench said.
JAIPUR: Seven people, including two policemen, were injured when members of two communities indulged in arson after incidents of eve-teasing.
Stones and acid bottles were hurled and three motorcycles set ablaze in Lodhon-ka-chowk area here last night after parents of some girls objected to certain indecent remarks passed by boys of another community, Deputy Commissioner of Police A Deep Singh Kapoor said today.
The girls, who had allegedly been facing eve-teasing for past some time, were returning home last evening from their classes when the boys again passed remarks at them.
Following this, both groups started pelting stones at each other in which cops, who had rushed to the spot from different police stations, got injured, the DCP said.
Station House Officer of TP Nagar police station Babulal Vishnoi and constable Prabhu Dayal were among the seven injured, he said, adding that the injured were rushed to a government hospital where they were given medical treatment.
Two FIRs from either sides, and third one from police were lodged with the Motidungari police station. Ten persons of both sides were mentioned in the complaints.
Two companies of Rajasthan Armed Forces have been deployed in the area to maintain law and order, Kapoor said, adding that the situation was now under control.
"Forty-eight bodies, including children, women, men, have been recovered from inside the base. The bodies of 10 attackers have been found outside the base. The total death toll is 58, but that could increase as over 100 people were wounded, some of them very seriously," the top UN official in the country, Toby Lanzer, told AFP.
The investigators had earlier arrested nine Muslim men, however the NIA, after it took over the probe, found that the blast was the handiwork of a Hindu extremist organization.
In its application filed this week before the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act Court's judge Y D Shinde, NIA has said the accused Manohar Singh has no right to be heard (locus standi) in this issue.
"As per provisions of law, co-accused has no locus standi in the discharge application filed by any other accused," NIA has said.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad had arrested Noorul Huda Samsudoha (28), Shabbir Ahmed Masiullah (41), Raees Ahmed Rajab Ali Mansuri (35), Dr Salman Farsi Abdul Latif Aimi (40), Dr Farogh Iqbal Ahmed Magdumi (38), Mohammad Ali Alam Sheikh (42), Asif Khan Bashir Khan alias Junaid (35), Mohammad Zahid Abdul Majid Ansari (31) and Abrar Ahmed Gulam Ahmed (38) in connection with the two blasts.
But NIA claimed that the blasts were carried out by a Hindu right-wing group, and arrested Lokesh Sharma, Dhan Singh, Manohar Singh and Rajendra Choudhary. They were charged.
The aforesaid nine Muslim men got bail, and filed application for discharge, which is being heard.
The Hindu group came under the scanner following a confession of Swami Aseemanand, an accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case.
Two blasts in Malegaon, a communally sensitive town in Nashik district, killed 37 people on September 8, 2006.
There is no immediate word of damage or casualties and seismologists have not yet issued a calculation of its power or its epicentre.
Mexico City is vulnerable even to distant earthquakes because much of it sits atop the muddy sediments of drained lake beds that quiver as quake waves hit.
The magnitude-8.1 quake in 1985 that killed at least 6,000 people and destroyed many buildings in Mexico City was centred 250 miles (400 kilometres) away on the Pacific Coast.
