PARADISE BLIGHTED

Wails for the dead, moans of the injured and cries for relief and shelter continue to resound in the Valley, where relief work is on a slow trudge. Sridhar K Chari reports from Srinagar Uri tehsil and the neigbhouring Tangdhar tehsil, are both on the Line of Control, close to the epicentre of the October 8 quake in Muzaffarabad in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on the other side of the Line of Control. The villages in the two tehsils bore heavy damage from the quake, with whole settlements being flattened.

The wordless wonder
Sudoku is not the first number craze the world has known. Aditya Rishi figures out the puzzles that have driven "the whole world crazy" at different points of time.
Sudoku, the wordless crossword, was born yesterday. Everyone loves to
koochi-ku an infant, especially when the name comes from a foreign phrase, like the Japanese "suji wadokushin ni kagiru", meaning, "only single numbers allowed".

Most metrosexual
British football superstar David Beckham has topped a list of the world’s top five metrosexuals. According to the New York Post, the list created by Vanity Fair magazine, placed Beckham at the top.