Sikkim Quake

• Tremor felt in Sikkim, exactly a year after devastating quake

  Exactly a year after an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale stuck Sikkim causing widespread devastation and left nearly 80 dead, a moderate tremor measuring 4.1 was again felt in the state today for a few seconds. No casualties or damage to properties have been reported as yet.

• A month after quake, Sikkim gears up for a tough winter ahead

  It is nearly a month since an earthquake measuring 6.9 in the Richter scale struck Sikkim bringing death and destruction to strategically located state on the India-China border. Reconstruction and rebuilding process is on but key military positions and villages along the Indo-China border are still cut off.

• PM announces Rs 1000 crore relief fund for quake-hit Sikkim

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced Rs 1000 crore as relief funds for quake-hit Sikkim. The Prime Minister also announced houses for the homeless.

• A week after earthquake, Sikkim limps back to normalcy

  A week after the 6.8 magnitude earthquake ravaged its North district, Sikkim is limping back to normalcy with most of the connecting roads in the remote areas restored.

• Sikkim quake: A daughter waits for her father

  It's been an endless wait for the family of Subrata Ranjan Nath. Mr Nath, a senior official with a power company in north Sikkim, has been missing since a devastating earthquake rattled the state nearly a week ago.

• Chidambaram visits quake-hit Sikkim, meets victims at hospital

  Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram is in Gangtok today to review the damages caused by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that hit northeast India, Tibet and Nepal on Sunday, claiming hundreds of lives. Chidambaram will visit quake victims at the hospitals.

• Sikkim quake: Death toll rises; losses estimated at Rs 1 lakh crore

  Four days after a devastating earthquake measuring a forceful 6.8 on the Richter scale struck large parts of north east India, rescue and relief teams are still trying to reach thousands of people trapped in remote areas.

• No trace of 120 people at a North Sikkim village

  There is still no trace of 120 residents of Bay village in North Sikkim, located between Lachung and Chungthang, after Sunday's powerful quake even as a flash flood at Lachung poses a fresh threat of landslides.

• 12 dead, 40 missing at Sikkim plant hit by quake

  Indian soldiers in helicopters and driving heavy road clearing equipment scrambled on Wednesday to reach a hydroelectric project in northeast India where at least a dozen people died and 40 others were missing after a powerful earthquake.

• Quake aftermath: Many villages in Sikkim still cut off, thousands waiting for help

  Three days after a devastating earthquake measuring a forceful 6.8 on the Richter scale struck large parts of north east India, rescue and relief teams are still trying to reach thousands of people trapped in remote areas.

• Rahul Gandhi visits quake-hit Sikkim

  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today made an aerial survey of quake-hit North Sikkim. He also visited a hospital in Gangtok.

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  Footballers planning fund-raiser for quake victims

  The Football Players Association of India (FPAI) is planning to organise a football match to raise funds for Sikkim earthquake victims, its president Bhaichung Bhutia said on Tuesday.

• Earthquake toll over 80; India 68; as rescue teams reach quake epicentre

  Over 50 people have died in India, most of them in Sikkim, in the devastating earthquake which measured a forceful 6.8 on the Richter scale. The quake hit parts of North India at around 6 pm on Sunday and was centred on the Sikkim-Nepal border, 64 kilometres north-west of Gangtok. Casualties have also been reported from neighbouring Bihar and West ...

• Another 4.3-magnitude earthquake hits Northeast

  An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale shook parts of Meghalaya today, the seismic observatory here said. The mild intensity quake was recorded at 12.52 am and its epicentre was located along the Meghalaya-Bangladesh border, officials at the observatory said.

• CCTV footage of Nepal mall as quake struck

  Five people were killed as the Sikkim earthquake, with a 6.8 magnitude on the Richter Scale, shook nearby Nepal yesterday. Three of the five Nepalese quake victims were killed when a high brick wall of the British Embassy at Lainchaur in Kathmandu collapsed, the police said.