Prof. Amir Haider Malik is going back to Abbottabad in north Pakistan with the hope of putting to see the information he has picked up on rainwater harvesting in Delhi over the last four days. Prof.

The tsunami of December 26, 2004 has substantially altered the coastline to bare exciting Pallava sculptures, dating back to the 7th centuryBC, on the seabed off the famous beach resort of

India has entered Phase II of tackling the tsunami disaster. It is now readying to rebuild and rehabilitate the affected areas and develop disaster prevention and management systems.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that the tsunami will adversely impact India's fiscal deficit through large spending on rehabilitation and reconstruction operations that will be initiated

The Annual Plan of Pondicherry for 2005-06 has been fixed at Rs 810 crore inclusive of a relief package of the order of Rs 100 crore to the tsunami-hit people. This was decided at a meeting between

Even as relief work continues in areas devastated by the tsunami, the corpus of the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund has quietly swelled to around Rs 500 crore. The money is said to be the largest corpus ever collected through the fund.
This is just money that has been sent as Demand Drafts. "Cheques still need to be processed and taken into account," said a PMO official.

Searching through the rubble of his home for anything still whole, Laksmiah Poleh can see life's options quite clearly. He can give up and move his family back to their home state on the mainland and, if he's lucky, find work as a tenant farmer making Rs 1,700 a month.

When Baskaran, a fisherman in Nochikuppam, Chennai, is asked what the fisherfolk normally eat for breakfast

Tsunami - How it happened