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Thursday,
December 30, 2004, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
54
shocks rock Andamans
Thousands missing;
inaccessibility hampers rescue
 Port
Blair, December 29
A staggering 54 aftershocks of
magnitude above 5.0 on the Richter scale have been recorded in the
seas off the Andaman and Nicobar islands, following the 8.6
magnitude quake at 6.29 on December 26, even as the remoteness and
inaccessibility of several of the worst-hit islands continue to
stymie rescue efforts.
A tag is placed around a deceased person’s wrist so that the body can be identified among hundreds outside a temple in Thaplamu, nearly 100 km north of the Thai resort island of Phuket on Wednesday. — Reuters
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DEATH
TOLL |
| Tamil
Nadu |
6,300
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Andaman &
Nicobar islands
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12,
000
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| Pondicherry |
528
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| Kerala |
170
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| Andhra Pradesh |
106
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Death toll crosses 20,000 mark
Mass burial, cremation in Tamil
Nadu
Chennai, December 29
Mass burial and cremation were carried out in various districts of Tamil Nadu today to prevent an outbreak of epidemic as the death toll due to Sunday’s tsunami waves in India crossed 20,000, with the Andaman and Nicobar Islands alone accounting for 12,000.
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Race to bury Asia’s dead as toll rises to 80,000
Biggest UN relief operation
under way
Banda Aceh, Indonesia, December
29
Thousands of corpses rotted in the
sun from India to Indonesia on Wednesday as many who escaped death in
the worst Tsunami in recorded history faced a fight for survival against
hunger and disease.
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Bodies of victims of last Sunday’s tsunami, which hit the city of Banda Aceh, in Indonesia, are prepared for a mass burial in the outskirts of the city on Wednesday.
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 PM
rules out tsunami cess
New Delhi, December 29
Stating that the Centre was
treating tsunami disaster as a “national calamity”, Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh today ruled out imposition of any cess “as of now” to
mop up resources.
Fate
of Sikh ex-servicemen’s families in Nicobar uncertain
New Delhi, December 29
The fate of 2,000-odd families of
Sikh ex-servicemen from Punjab and Haryana, living in Campbell Bay, or
Mini Punjab as it is popularly known, on the southernmost island of
Nicobar is uncertain even as Navy and Coast Guard personnel continue
rescue and relief operations.
Nanavati Commission’s term extended
New Delhi, December 29
The government today decided to extend the term of the Nanavati Commission, probing the 1984 riots in Delhi in the aftermath of the assassination of Indira Gandhi, by one month while approving an agreement with Bahrain to extend mutual legal assistance in criminal matters.
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Over
11,500 dead in India
December 29, 2004
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Tsunami
devours 9,000 in south coast
December 28, 2004
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3,300 die as tidal waves hit southern coast
December 27, 2004
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George caught in code of conduct net
December 26, 2004
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Over 30
FIRs for code violation in Bihar
December 25, 2004
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PMO’s
letter to CBI leads to furore in Parliament
December 24, 2004
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Zaheera was paid Rs 18 lakh by BJP MLA: Tehelka
December 23, 2004
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PM rules out redrawing of boundaries
December 22, 2004
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FIR
against Laloo for code violation
December 21, 2004
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