Nepal earthquake: PM Modi assures of all possible help as death toll rises to 76

• The US Marines chopper that went missing while on Nepal earthquake aid mission, has been reportedly spotted north of capital Kathmandu.
• The death toll in the earthquake has now risen to 76.
• In a bid to aid community preparedness, scientists at the Geological Survey of India are monitoring the aftershocks in various parts of the country following the massive April 25 earthquake that hit Nepal, says an official.
• India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks to Nepalese counterpart Sushil Koirala and assures him of all possible cooperation in the wake of fresh earthquake.  
• India, which wasted no time in rushing help to Nepal as soon as a deadly earthquake struck on April 25, has now decided to wait for Kathmandu to seek assistance after another tremor jolted the Himalayan nation on Tuesday.
• As many as 202 aftershocks measuring above 4 on the Richter scale have rocked Nepal since the devastating April 25 earthquake, which killed over 8,000 people. At least 36 aftershocks, including five on Wednesday alone, were recorded in Nepal following Tuesday's 7.3-magnitude earthquake.  
• The toll in the two high-intensity earthquakes and 27 aftershocks that rattled Bihar, the eastern state of India, has risen to 17 while 77 people have been injured.
• Chinese authorities are trying to reopen a section of China-Nepal highway which was blocked by 40,000 cubic meters of debris in the latest 7.3-magnitude temblor that struck Nepal yesterday.
• The Nepali Army has been told that the missing US Marines helicopter may have come down in a river in the Charikot area hit hard by an earthquake and 400 soldiers are engaged in the hunt.
• India takes the lead in negotiating a draft UN General Assembly resolution on the devastating Nepal earthquake that will underline the need for the international community to continue its support for rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts in the country.
• At least 65 people were killed when another massive earthquake shook Nepal on Tuesday, taking the total toll since the devastating April 25 temblor to 8,216, says Nepal's Home Ministry. 
• India is continuing to extend all help to Nepal in the time of crisis.
  

  9 women and 1 man were rescued by the Indian Army engineering team in Bhaktapur yesterday after the 7.3 magnitude #NepalEearthquake

  — Embassy of India KTM (@IndiaInNepal) May 13, 2015

• Rescuers are battling to reach survivors of the deadly new earthquake in Nepal that triggered landslides and brought down buildings.
• Nepali and US troops are scouring the area worst hit by a second large earthquake for a missing US Marine helicopter, a zone described by frightened residents as a "graveyard" because the quake flattened so many houses. Nepali government officials said the search is focused on a village called Sunkhani.
• Most of the reported fatalities are in villages and towns such as Charikot, the capital of Dolakha, which were only just beginning to pick up the pieces from the massive April 25 quake that killed more than 8,000 people.
• Nepal's Home Ministry official Laxmi Prasad Dhakal says at least 65 people have been killed in Tuesday`s 7.3 magnitude quake, which destroyed swaths of housing in the district of Dolakha east of the capital, Kathmandu.
• US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal will be travelling to quake-hit Nepal this week to take stock of the American relief and rescue operation.
• As per All India Radio, the toll touches 50 in Nepal while the number of deaths in Bihar from the quake rises to 42. Two people died in Uttar Pradesh while one death was reported from Tibet.
• People living in Nepal`s mountains have long accepted the risk of landslides and floods.
• Areas of Nepal remain perilously unstable following last month`s devastating earthquake, and, as Tuesday`s tremor showed, landslides pose an ongoing menace that will only increase when seasonal monsoon rains begin to fall in the coming weeks.
• A US Marine Corps helicopter carrying out earthquake relief in Charikot has been reported missing with six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers on board, say officials.
• Eight people died in Kathmandu Valley and two major buildings collapsed in the capital. But Dolakha and Sindhupalchowk, two of districts worst affected by the original quake, bore the brunt of the damage. In Dolakha alone, 26 people were confirmed dead.
• Tuesday`s quake was felt as far away as New Delhi, and caused buildings to collapse in Tibet in neighbouring China, killing at least one person there.
• A second tremor of 6.3-magnitude struck Nepal around half an hour later, followed by yet more aftershocks, according to the USGS.
• The 7.3-magnitude quake struck at 12:35 pm, some 76 kilometres (47 miles) east of Kathmandu, the US Geological Survey said, after a 7.8-magnitude quake on April 25 killed more than 8,000 people.
• Authorities in Nepal said at least 48 people were killed and more than 1,100 injured, while 17 people also died across the border in northern India.
• A new earthquake and powerful aftershocks killed dozens of people and brought fresh terror to a traumatised Nepal on Tuesday as buildings already damaged in a monster quake last month came tumbling down.