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India's industrial production grows 3.8 pct in Dec. 2023

STORY: India's industrial production grows 3.8 pct in Dec. 2023 SHOOTING TIME: file DATELINE: Feb. 13, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:33 LOCATION: New Delhi CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Indian gate 2. various of manufacturing unit STORYLINE: India's factory activity growth, determined by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), grew 3.8 percent in December last year, government data showed Monday. "For the month of December 2023, the quick estimates of IIP with base 2011-12 stands at 151.5," the federal Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation said in a statement. It said the IIP for the mining, manufacturing and electricity sectors in December stand at 139.4, 150.6 and 181.6 respectively. As per use-based classification, the indices stand at 151.7 for primary goods, 103.3 for capital goods, 159.3 for intermediate goods and 177.9 for infrastructure/construction goods, it said. The indices for consumer durables and consumer non-durables stand at 114.0 and 178.0 respectively for D

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Restoration of 'miracle pine'

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - A part of the trunk of the "miracle pine" that initially withstood the massive March 2011 tsunami is suspended from a crane to be planted into the ground in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2013, as restoration of the tree reached the final stage. The remnants of the tree were dissected in September 2012 into several parts for anti-decay treatment.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 28, 2014 (bottom).

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2 years after quake

NAMIE, Japan - Photos show a road jammed with evacuating cars in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), the day after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan that triggered a nuclear disaster in the prefecture, and the same location on Feb. 28, 2013, where a checkpoint for a no-entry zone has been set up.

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2 years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an elementary school in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), the day after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, and the same school on Feb. 27, 2013. The building is expected to be demolished and the school merged with another nearby.

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, talks with Chuhei Sakai (C), the leader of a group of residents promoting decontamination in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, while measuring radiation levels in Iwaki on Feb. 22, 2012. Kimura quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for the 44-year-old scientist's trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011.

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, gives a lecture on radiation during a local women's association meeting in Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2012. The 44-year-old scientist quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for his trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011.

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Protest in Bahrain

MANAMA, Bahrain - People attend a rally in front of the labor ministry in the suburbs of Manama, the capital of Bahrain, on Feb. 12, 2012, to call for reinstatement of employees of state-run companies who were fired after participating in the 2011 antigovernment demonstrations in the country. On Feb. 14, 2012, the island state off the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia marked the first anniversary of the large-scale Shiite-led uprising against the ruling Sunni dynasty.

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Protest in Bahrain

MANAMA, Bahrain - People call for reinstatement of employees of state-run companies who were fired after participating in the 2011 antigovernment demonstrations in Bahrain, in front of the labor ministry in the suburbs of the capital Manama on Feb. 12, 2012. The island state off the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia on Feb. 14, 2012, marked the first anniversary of the large-scale Shiite-led uprising against the Sunni dynasty in power.

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Toyota Aqua hybrid compact car

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s Aqua hybrid compact car. The automaker said Feb. 1, 2012, the number of orders placed for the Aqua as of Jan. 31, 2012, was about 120,000, greatly exceeding its sales goal of 12,000 units a month. The car was released on Dec. 26, 2011.

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Anti-volcano ash goggles for dogs

MIYAKONOJO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 12, 2011, in a pet shop in the city of Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, shows goggles, raincoats and other gear intended to protect dogs and cats from the damage of ash falling from a volcano. Shinmoe Peak began a series of eruptions on Jan. 26.

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Vietnam tour boat sinks

HANOI, Vietnam - File photo taken in November 2010 shows sightseeing boats cruising in Halong Bay, northern Vietnam. One such boat carrying 27 people sank on Feb. 17, 2011, killing 12 people including a Japanese national, according to local authorities.

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Jubilation in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptians let off fire works in celebration at Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in front of an archaeology museum in Cairo on Feb. 12, 2011.

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Jubilation in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptians hit the streets to celebrate President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in Cairo on Feb. 12, 2011.

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Miyaichi gets 1st goal with Feyenoord

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Japanese teen striker Ryo Miyaichi (L) celebrates his first goal as a Feyenoord player against Heracles Almelo in Rotterdam on Feb. 12, 2011, contributing to the team's 2-1 victory. Premier League giants Arsenal have sent Miyaichi to Feyenoord on loan for the remainder of the 2010/11 season.

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Miyaichi gets 1st goal with Feyenoord

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Japanese teen striker Ryo Miyaichi scores his first goal as a Feyenoord player in the first half of a Dutch first-division game against Heracles Almelo in Rotterdam on Feb. 12, 2011, contributing to the team's 2-1 victory. Premier League giants Arsenal have sent Miyaichi to Feyenoord on loan for the remainder of the 2010/11 season.

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Japan beat Bahrain in U-22 friendly

MANAMA, Bahrain - Japan's Ryohei Yamazaki scores a late penalty in a friendly against Bahrain in Manama on Feb. 12, 2011. Japan's Under-22s beat their Bahrain counterparts 2-0.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - A man reads a newspaper at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 12, 2011, the day after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Cows test negative for foot-and-mouth disease

SHIKA, Japan - Ishikawa prefectural government employees in protective clothing are relieved in Shika in the prefecture as cows at a paddock in the town tested negative for foot-and-mouth disease on Feb. 12, 2011.

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Taj Mahal snow statue

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A snow statue featuring India's Taj Mahal, 13 meters high and 30 meters wide, is displayed at a snow festival in the town of Tadami, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2011.

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Cows test negative for foot-and-mouth disease

SHIKA, Japan - A ''keep out'' signboard is removed in Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture, as cows at a paddock in the town tested negative for foot-and-mouth disease on Feb. 12, 2011.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People read newspapers at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 12, 2011, the day after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Cows test negative for foot-and-mouth disease

KOMATSU, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a paddock in Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2011. Fifteen cows kept at the paddock had foot-and-mouth disease-like symptoms but they tested negative the same day.

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Tsunami-hit city library compiles victims' memoirs in English

Officials from the Higashimatsushima City Library (back) interview a priest of the Shirahige Shrine in the northeastern Japan city on Feb. 12, 2015, on his experience in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit city library compiles victims' memoirs in English

A priest (R) of the Shirahige Shrine in the northeastern Japan city of Higashimatsushima tells officials of the city library on Feb. 12, 2015, about his experience in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takahama plant's No. 4 reactor automatically shuts down

File photo taken Jan. 12, 2016, shows the No. 4 reactor of Takahama nuclear power plant on the Sea of Japan coast. The reactor automatically shut down on Feb. 29, 2016, following an alert, after reactivation on Feb. 26. It is the fourth unit reactivated under stricter safety rules following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takahama plant's No. 4 reactor automatically shuts down

File photo taken Jan. 12, 2016, shows the No. 4 reactor (front) of Takahama nuclear power plant on the Sea of Japan coast. The reactor automatically shut down on Feb. 29, 2016, following an alert, after reactivation on Feb. 26. It is the fourth unit reactivated under stricter safety rules following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5th anniversary of Japan's March 2011 disaster

Combination photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, (L) and Feb. 17, 2016, shows a ballpark in the northeastern Japanese city of Minamisoma devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The stadium reopened in July 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5th anniversary of Japan's March 2011 disaster

Combination photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, (L) and Feb. 15, 2016, shows the disaster prevention office in the northeastern Japan town of Minamisanriku devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. It is still under consideration whether to scrap it or maintain it as remains of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5th anniversary of Japan's March 2011 disaster

Combined photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, (L) and Feb. 16, 2016, show the northeastern Japanese city of Kesennuma devastated by earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. A large fishing vessel brought by tsunami seen in the center of the left photo was scrapped. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Young fishermen form joint sales group to survive post-disaster days

Shota Abe, co-representative of Fisherman Japan, collects kelp aboard a boat off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2015. Abe and other young fishermen founded the joint marketing organization in July 2014 for the revitalization of fisheries businesses after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that devastated northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fixed-point observation shows change of disaster-hit areas

Combination photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the urban district of the northeastern Japanese coastal city of Ofunato on March 12, 2011, (L), a day after the area was hit by a deadly earthquake, and the same area on Feb. 24, 2015. Seafood processing plants and shops have been built during the past four years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Groundbreaking ceremony for new school in tsunami-hit town

A groundbreaking ceremony is conducted in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2015, to mark the start of construction of a primary-cum-secondary school building. (From L) Elementary schooler Mana Saito, Otsuchi Mayor Yutaka Ikarigawa and junior high schooler Kinnosuke Hakoyama. The town was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima panel denies correlation between cancer, radiation

Hokuto Hoshi, head of a Fukushima prefectural committee studying the health impact of the 2011 nuclear power plant accident, denies any correlation between the disaster and the recent confirmation of a single thyroid cancer case at a press conference in Fukushima city on Feb. 12, 2015. The results of the committee's second round of surveys on all Fukushima children showed that one child suffered thyroid cancer, but denied a view that they were affected by radiation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-NRC head Jaczko speaks on nuclear safety in Japanese parliament

Gregory Jaczko, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, speaks about nuclear safety in the Japanese parliament building in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, with regard to Japan's plans to restart idled nuclear reactors. Jaczko was active NRC chief when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster occurred in northeastern Japan in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 more idled nuclear reactors in Japan get safety OKs

Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, after the regulatory body approved safety measures for the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama complex, located on the Sea of Japan coast in Fukui Prefecture. The approval gave another boost to the government's planned resumption of atomic power generation following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Photo (L) taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 22, 2011, shows the tsunami-devastated Onagawa town in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, about 10 days after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Photo (R) taken from the helicopter on Feb. 12, 2021, shows public houses built for the affected people (upper right) on elevated land and a new railway station (C) in the same area.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Photo (top) taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, shows tsunami-devastated houses in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake. A large-scale agricultural farm (seen in the center of the bottom photo) built in the same area after the houses were demolished is pictured from the helicopter on Feb. 14, 2021.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows smoke (top) rising in an area in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Kesennuma, northeastern Japan, on March 12, 2011, a day after the earthquake-tsunami disaster, and the same area (bottom) on Feb. 12, 2021, after a bridge was built over Kesennuma Bay as part of reconstruction work.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Three photos taken from a Kyoto News helicopter show an area hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The first photo (top) was taken June 10, 2011, while the second photo (middle) taken Sept. 1, 2014, shows a huge conveyor belt used for land elevation work, followed by the third photo (bottom), taken Feb. 12, 2021, showing a memorial park that was built in the area as a reminder of the disaster for future generations.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows a tsunami-devastated area (top) in Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pictured from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 13, 2011, and a memorial park created in the same area (bottom), pictured from the helicopter on Feb. 12, 2021, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows a tsunami-devastated area (top) in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pictured from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 23, 2011, and shops and public facilities built on an elevated land in the same area (bottom), pictured from the helicopter on Feb. 12, 2021, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows a tsunami-hit area (top) in Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pictured from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, and the same area (bottom) pictured from a drone on Feb. 19, 2021, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. A memorial park (seen in the lower right of the bottom picture) is set to open on March 11.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - A man reads a newspaper at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 12, 2011, the day after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. (Kyodo)

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People read newspapers at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 12, 2011, the day after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. (Kyodo)

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, gives a lecture on radiation during a local women's association meeting in Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2012. The 44-year-old scientist quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for his trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, talks with Chuhei Sakai (C), the leader of a group of residents promoting decontamination in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, while measuring radiation levels in Iwaki on Feb. 22, 2012. Kimura quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for the 44-year-old scientist's trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Expected acquittal in Fukawa murder case to stir judicial reform

MATSUDO, Japan - Takao Sugiyama (R) and Shoji Sakurai attend at a public meeting in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, on Feb. 12, 2011, to discuss the Fukawa Incident. (Kyodo)

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Before and after quake in N.Z.

TOKYO, Japan - Combined photo shows the iconic cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, before the earthquake (L), taken on Feb. 12, 2011, and after the disaster, taken on Feb. 24. (Kyodo)

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Anti-volcano ash goggles for dogs

MIYAKONOJO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 12, 2011, in a pet shop in the city of Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, shows goggles, raincoats and other gear intended to protect dogs and cats from the damage of ash falling from a volcano. Shinmoe Peak began a series of eruptions on Jan. 26. (Kyodo)