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Mechanised fishing vessels washed ashore near Royapuram, along the Ennore High Road, by the Tsunami. Photo by: Shaju John

Destructive Wave

  • Killer waves
  • ``Many of those missing could be dead''
  • Tsunami toll crosses 1.5 lakhs
  • Asian death toll 1.39 lakhs
  • Asia tsunami death toll 1.26 lakhs
  • Death toll touches 1.21 lakhs
  • Death toll in Asia crosses 1.2 lakhs
  • 80,000 dead in Asia
  • Tsunamis past: a trail of destructive fury
  • Death toll in Asia 55,000
  • Killer-wave and the aftershock
  • Tsunami death toll in India 6,400
  • 23,700 killed across South Asia
  • Tsunami kills thousands across nations
  • Heartrending scenes in hospital

    Tamil Nadu

  • Swept off its feet, literally New
  • Chennai's black Sunday
  • Stalin hands over relief cheque to Jayalalithaa
  • They lost all, but found their baby
  • Trauma grips these fisherwomen
  • Velankanni economy a shambles
  • Death toll rises to 7,951
  • A Mutt head defies custom in service of victims
  • Mughal-era fort, Dutch tombs damaged
  • Toll rises to 6,035 in Nagapattinam
  • LIC gesture to policyholders
  • Tsunami has not spared Nagapattinam farmers
  • Damage in Kancheepuram district put at Rs.79 crores
  • Rs 4,800-crore Central aid sought for tsunami-hit
  • Where the Danish fort stood like a rock
  • Rs.500-cr. loss in Nagapattinam
  • Chief Minister announces relief for injured, assistance up for orphaned children
  • More men flock to Thanjavur camps, looking for missing kin
  • Relief operations apace in Nagapattinam, death toll 6,000
  • 100 more bodies found in Nagapattinam
  • Water supply in Cuddalore, Nagapattinam to be restored soon
  • Salvage work begins at fishing harbour
  • The waves are gone, but their woes have begun
  • Shelter belt plantations take on killer waves
  • Government to adopt orphaned children
  • Vivek Oberoi to adopt Thevanampattinam
  • A phone call saved an entire village
  • Chennai Port Trust plans artificial beach
  • Marina saved Chennai from going the Velankanni way
  • Cracks on school ground trigger tension
  • IT sector lends a helping hand in Nagapattinam
  • The Shore Temple stands its ground
  • Army took six hours to get ready for relief
  • Point calimere escapes tsunami fury
  • Many children orphaned in Nagapattinam
  • Adversity wipes out communal differences
  • Jayalalithaa announces relief package
  • 75,000 fishermen's huts destroyed
  • A tragic end for many Velankanni pilgrims
  • Mass burial in Nagapattinam, toll 1500
  • Patil visits Thevanampattinam
  • The sea was too harsh on fishermen
  • Toll up in Tuticorin
  • Rail link to Nagore snapped
  • Chennai no longer in the comfort zone
  • It's not calm after the storm
  • Pall of gloom descends over fishing hamlets
  • `Let rest of the country know magnitude of catastrophe'
  • Pall of gloom descends on Nagore
  • Colachel youth come to terms with tragedy
  • Rescue efforts in full swing in Kanyakumari district
  • Seismograph at Salem earth station fails to record tsunami
  • Toll in Kancheepuram rises to 82
  • 35 killed in Villupuram
  • Minister visits coastal villages in Pudukottai district
  • Over 1,700 killed in Tamil Nadu
  • 400 feared dead as waves lash Cuddalore coast
  • What kept the toll down
  • When the Marina became a nightmare
  • 400 die, thousands homeless in Kanyakumari
  • Tsunami leaves 131 dead in Chennai, suburbs
  • 18 die in Villupuram
  • Timely action saves several fishermen
  • We have not seen anything like this before: fishermen
  • Pall of gloom descends on Nagore
  • Tidal waves claim five lives in Nellai district
  • Mamallapuram resembles ghost town
  • Velankanni: fate of Kerala pilgrims unknown
  • Tsunami paralyses port operations — Three ships collide
  • Pleasure trip turns fatal for them

    Pondicherry

  • Maharashtra Government to build houses
  • Fishermen complain of neglect
  • Normality returns, but fear still lingers
  • Counselling for the tsunami-hit
  • Central team in Pondicherry
  • Lakhera hears tsunami victims' woes
  • Tsunami victims begin to head home
  • Damage to Karaikal put at Rs. 250 crores
  • Karnataka donates Rs. 50 lakhs to Pondy
  • Rs.50.5-crore Central relief for Pondy
  • Patil announces Rs. 25-crore assistance
  • Tsunami claims 280 lives in Pondy
  • Panic-stricken people leave houses
  • Rangasamy announces relief

    Andaman and Nicobar islands

  • Andamans' agony
  • Manmohan promises all help to tsunami-hit in Andamans
  • UNICEF supports Govt health campaign in Andamans
  • We are safe, say Jarawas
  • Nicobarese boys help rescue family
  • Disaster management teams set up in the Andamans
  • Focus now on repair of infrastructure
  • More relief sent to Andamans
  • Operation Andamans in full flow
  • `I have lost count of the bodies I found'
  • Immense damage to ecology feared in Andamans
  • Another quake in Great Nicobar
  • Restoration work on IAF base to begin soon
  • Centre denies reports of `viral storm' in Nicobar
  • Indira Point would re-emerge: researchers
  • The cycle of life and death
  • Pressure mounting on 6 Port Blair relief camps
  • IA flights carry relief to Port Blair
  • Manmohan deputes two Ministers to Andamans
  • Where forests saved the people
  • Relief efforts focus on Andaman and Nicobar
  • All primitive tribes safe
  • Indian Oil restores refuelling services in Andaman & Nicobar
  • Death toll in Andamans put at 10,000
  • IA evacuates record number of people
  • Teenager battles rough sea for two days, survives
  • 5,000 feared dead and missing in Andaman and Nicobar
  • Extent of damage in Andaman islands not known
  • IAF base washed away
  • IA flights to evacuate people from the Andamans
  • Port Blair airport closed, aid operations to continue

    Andhra Pradesh

  • State to seek Rs. 317 crores for tsunami relief
  • Andhra Pradesh toll 104
  • Manmohan, Sonia to visit tsunami-hit areas
  • State promises 20,000 more houses for fishermen
  • YSR promises help to tidal wave victims
  • 84 killed, hundreds missing in AP
  • A lucky escape, say scientists
  • Vizag Fishing Harbour shaken
  • Hell breaks loose in tourist paradise
  • Outing ends in tragedy
  • Death comes knocking
  • Too shocked to mourn
  • Eleven persons dead, toll likely to go up in Nellore
  • Prakasam villages bear the brunt
  • Shaken out of slumber
  • 26 die in Krishna district
  • A rude jolt for Vizag citizens

    Kerala

  • State seeks Rs. 1,358-crore aid
  • Central team visits tsunami-hit areas
  • Bleak future stares at tsunami survivors
  • Tsunami attack: damage to houses put at Rs.10 crores
  • Kerala to provide temporary housing for tsunami-affected
  • Govt to adopt tsunami-orphaned children
  • Relief camps hard put to handle influx
  • For them, it was a miraculous escape
  • Kerala to seek Rs. 757-crore aid from Centre
  • Toll rises to 161; relief work on
  • 32 bodies recovered in Alappad panchayat
  • Government to enhance compensation
  • Toll 28 in Alappuzha
  • Tsunami leaves Vizhinjam, Pozhiyoor residents shocked
  • Tsunami: relief work under way
  • Arattupuzha resembles a war-ravaged zone
  • Over 100 killed in coastal Kerala
  • 21 killed, 700 injured in Alappuzha
  • Tidal upsurge: toll 86 in Kollam

    Relief Measure

  • Manmohan assures effective relief
  • Navy on alert for relief efforts, says Natwar Singh
  • U.N. launches $1-billion relief effort
  • India to offer expertise to tsunami-hit countries
  • Rajasthan to open relief camps in Tamil Nadu
  • Eastern Naval Command deploys 14 ships, 12 choppers for relief work
  • Banks speed up aid for tsunami victims
  • U.K. moots debt relief
  • EM solution for tsunami-hit areas
  • Priority berthing for ships carrying relief materials
  • Govt to focus on drinking water, power in tsunami-hit areas
  • Relief team to start visit on Tuesday
  • Unicef relief vans for tsunami-hit districts
  • Navy's `floating hospital' to set sail with medical relief
  • NHB loan at 5% for tsunami victims
  • Blair differs with Bush on relief
  • Powell, Jeb Bush to tour ravaged areas
  • Centre will extend all assistance: Manmohan
  • Army restores Karaikal-Nagapattinam link
  • Lack of coordination hampering distribution of relief in TN
  • Railway medical team treats tsunami victims
  • Insurers to settle only claims with add-on quake cover
  • LIC simplifies death claim forms for tsunami victims — Nabard aid for rural housing, fisherfolk
  • IA to operate 15 relief flights to Port Blair
  • Cabinet authorises release of Rs 500 cr to calamity fund
  • Biggest-ever peacetime relief operation
  • Rlys extends assistance for tsunami-hit States
  • RBI package for tsunami-hit States
  • Govt asks insurance cos to provide immediate relief
  • Coast Guard, Navy on their toes
  • Special package has to be worked out: TN CM
  • Government will help victims: Jayalalithaa
  • Mass feeding continues in Tiruvarur district
  • Manmohan promises all help, speaks to Chief Ministers
  • Centre takes stock of situation
  • No need for national emergency: Patil
  • Coast Guard sends aircraft to Thiruvananthapuram

    Economic Impact

  • States project tsunami reconstruction cost at Rs 7,000 crore
  • Tsunami loss in South put at Rs. 5,322 crores
  • Vedaranyam salt units take a beating
  • `Tsunami impact on marine sector brief'
  • Travel industry sees 25 pc drop in business
  • chennai Port Trust puts damage at Rs. 11.6 crores
  • Tsunami damage put at Rs. 5,500 cr.
  • Fish production will record steep fall
  • Nagapattinam may suffer high economic loss too
  • 'Coconut plantations may have been affected by tsunami'
  • Tsunami damages 3 SBI branches in Andamans
  • Impact of tsunami in Kalpakkam — `Power generation in MAPS to begin in a week'
  • Tsunami effect — Close-to-sea land prices may see temporary dip
  • Assocham puts tsunami damage at over Rs 2,000 cr
  • Chennai Port Trust limping back to normality
  • Tuticorin port suffers Rs. 50-lakh loss
  • `Trifling with regulations proved costly'
  • Nagapattinam port suffers damage
  • Damage to railway tracks in TN being assessed
  • Extensive damage to aqua industry in AP
  • Panic grips travel, hospitality sectors in Kerala
  • Tsunami hits Chennai hotels' New Year plans
  • Tsunami causes Rs 6-lakh loss in Dakshina Kannada
  • Hyundai to decide on fate of deluged cars by Wednesday
  • Tsunami may hit non-life insurers

    Scientific Establishments safe

  • Kalpakkam nuclear reactors are completely safe: Kakodkar
  • RV contributes to relief fund
  • Thumba, ISRO installations safe
  • Situation under control at Kalpakkam: Kakodkar
  • Atomic plant, space centre safe

    Editorial

  • On with the relief
  • Tsunami and the Net
  • Sri Lanka and the Tsunami
  • The U.N. must lead
  • Managing the Andamans crisis
  • Creating a Tsunami warning system
  • Tsunami effect
  • A poor relief effort
  • Death from the sea

    Scientific Facts

  • The tsunami phenomenon
  • Coral reefs escape tsunami fury
  • Red bait fish smelt disaster two months ago?
  • Vessel to analyse tsunami impact on coastal waters
  • Tsunami flushes out river silt
  • US scientist questions utility of costly early warning systems
  • `Quake rupture patch compares to size of California'
  • Sensors can stop tsunami scares
  • `India no stranger to tsunamis'
  • Of quakes and killer waves
  • Physics of the tsunami
  • Did the earth wobble?
  • GSI to study tsunami soon
  • 'Mangroves can act as shield against tsunami'
  • Advance warning system soon: Sibal
  • What is a tsunami?
  • Tsunamis return after 60 years
  • India to join global tsunami warning system
  • East coast was just in the line of tsunamis
  • Aftershocks may continue for few days, says expert
  • Expert's view on quake

    Tsunami aid: who's giving what

  • Padma Lakshmi chips in
  • Big calamity is also an opportunity: Manmohan
  • Rs. 3 crores from `The Hindu Relief Fund' handed over to Jayalalithaa
  • From Aamir Khan for The Hindu Relief Fund
  • The Hindu management, employees chip in
  • Contributions galore for tsunami victims
  • India Inc rushes aid
  • Bollywood chips in as relief fund swells
  • Sringeri Mutt gives Rs. 11.11 lakhs
  • 40 callers give Jayalalithaa cheques for Rs. 12.98 crores
  • Satyam Computer, staff contribute Rs 2.5 cr to tsunami relief work
  • Major engg, construction cos lend a helping hand in TN
  • Haryana's gesture
  • "Straight from the heart"
  • World Bank to contribute $250 m for tsunami-hit nations
  • Amul donates Rs 1 crore
  • Oil PSUs lead in donations for tsunami relief
  • Vizag Port Trust donates Rs 3 cr to relief fund
  • IOB donates Rs. 10 crores to Relief Fund
  • Indian Bank contributes Rs. 2 crores
  • Ambuja Cement's aid to relief fund
  • Godrej group contribution to relief work
  • Relief materials arrive unabated in TN
  • M.P. collects relief
  • Donations for tsunami hit pouring in
  • CA gives $2-lakh aid
  • Dubai Ports gives Rs 10 lakh aid
  • World Vision India to provide Rs 9-cr relief aid
  • Donations pour in
  • CPI (M) donates Rs. 10 lakhs
  • TN: Rs. 57.57 lakhs given to CM's relief fund
  • Haryana MPs, MLAs to donate a day's salary
  • Corporation Bank to donate Rs 1 crore
  • Andhra Bank donates Rs 2 cr
  • Infosys donates Rs 5 cr to PM's relief fund
  • Congress governments give Rs. 25 crores
  • DMK trust donates Rs. 1 crore for relief
  • Help and contributions pour in from all quarters
  • CPI (M) donates funds
  • Gujarat rushes financial, material assistance
  • U.S. offers Rs. 44.5 lakhs as relief
  • Iran sends aid for tsunami victims
  • Karnataka to give Rs 5.5 cr to tsunami-hit States

    Insight

  • No aid needed
  • Overlapping faults
  • `We have an obligation to help survivors'
  • Wave of compassion or new tide?
  • Insurance: Recovering from tsunami's wrath
  • Needed: humane options for orphaned children
  • The political economy of tsunami
  • An earthquake from `the depths of Asia'
  • A wave to drown the tsunami
  • A retribution for warnings ignored?
  • The tsunami relief effort
  • War budget dwarfs aid spending
  • Tsunami relief should be led by U.N.
  • More than a million Hiroshimas
  • Tsunami news and numbers are for the survivors
  • Tsunami warning system
  • Search for explanations
  • Was it a human failure?
  • Will we ever learn?

    Reactions

  • Europe pays silent homage
  • Chinese President offers condolences
  • Khatami expresses grief
  • President expresses deep shock, grief
  • Vajpayee expresses concern
  • Unprecedented ferocity, says Jayalalithaa
  • Putin offers condolences
  • E.U. aid for quake victims
  • Ready to help: Germany
  • Singapore offers help

    Goa

  • Mild tsunami waves experienced in Goa

    Orissa

  • Tremors in Orissa

    West Bengal

  • Basu was sailing to Phuket when tsunami struck
  • Tsunami struck Bengal in 1874
  • West Bengal escapes disaster

    Indonesia

  • India offers financial aid to Indonesia
  • 7,118 more bodies recovered in Indonesia
  • Indonesia prepares four-year recovery plan
  • In Aceh, most have gone forever
  • Death toll, despair mount in Indonesia
  • One more Indian dead in Thailand
  • Aid pours amid rush to ward off disease
  • Thousands missing, millions homeless
  • Bloated bodies litter Banda Aceh

    Sri Lanka

  • Now nature's turn
  • Chandrika's gesture
  • U.S. pledges more aid to Sri Lanka
  • Colombo, LTTE bicker over relief supplies
  • No problems about U.S. troops in Sri Lanka for relief work, says India
  • Sri Lanka's loss put at $1.3 billion
  • Hope and despair
  • India, largest relief donor to Sri Lanka
  • No civilians left in this once-elegant town
  • Relief operations in Sri Lanka hit by flash floods
  • Sri Lankan parties bury the hachet for now
  • Sri Lanka steps up health measures
  • Two Indian Naval ships leave for Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka faces an aid challenge
  • 1,000 killed as tsunami hits train
  • Over 11,500 killed in Sri Lanka
  • Indian ships reach Sri Lanka
  • Japanese team for Sri Lanka
  • Over 4,500 feared killed in Sri Lanka
  • Fate of 40 persons in Jaffna unknown
  • India sends medical team to Sri Lanka

    Maldives

  • Maldives declares emergency

    Thailand

  • Mother makes agonising choice
  • Thai death toll 4,560
  • United by a single phrase
  • Everything was flattened, says tourist
  • When terror struck the Thai beaches

    Myanmar

  • Bridge collapses in Myanmar, 10 killed

    Africa

  • Somali death toll put at 110
  • 14 Somalis killed by tsunami
  • East Africa braces for tsunami

    Karnataka

  • Six of family from Tumkur die in tsunami strike
  • He saved a life even when death stared at him

    Malaysia

  • 29 killed in Malaysia

    Reconstruction and rehabilitation

  • Pondy Govt announces fresh package for fishermen
  • TN: Relief materials for all 1.5 lakh families
  • Rehabilitation of tsunami orphans needs special attention
  • We will give top priority to reconstruction: Montek
  • 50,000 more families to get compensation
  • Temporary shelters being readied for one lakh families
  • Administration, aid workers are new gods for them
  • Rehabilitation of fishermen stares Government in the face
  • `Food for work' comes in handy for rehabilitation
  • Temporary sheds for tsunami-hit families
  • `Govt open to global funds for tsunami victims rehabilitation'
  • Reconstruction cost projected at Rs. 7000 crores

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