True Horror:
Hell On Earth

Rescue and Relief:
Picking up the Pieces

Gujarat Government:
Is Keshubhai
Up To It

First Person Account:
Dateline Fearscape

Quake-Resistant Building: Preventing Collapse

Insurance:
Leave It To God

Economic Impact:
What Goes Down...

Looking Back:
Latur: Still Shaken

Good Samaritans:
State-of-The-Heart

Care Today:
Rebuilding Gujarat: Hope For Survivors

NEWSNOTES

Voices

"In future, we will keep this in mind. But the Government cancelled all celebrations as soon as we came to know of the quake's intensity."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister, admitting that national mourning had not been declared after the Gujarat earthquake because the thought did not cross anyone's mind

"How can the saffronites criticise Sonia's Kumbha visit when they have brazenly exploited religion for political gains?"
Kalyan Singh, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh

"This is a wastage of public time. The witness claims to be a senior citizen and a Gandhian. Nothing more needs to be added."
Justice M.S. Liberhan, who is probing the sequence of events that led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid, after Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande failed to turn up for deposition

"It's unjust. They took his consent in advance as is the practice, then denied it to him."
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, West Bengal chief minister, on the Centre not considering Saurav Ganguly for the Padma Shri

VIS-A-VIS

"There is no locus standi in K. Madhavan's appointment as the BCCI's anti-corruption commissioner."
Mohammed Azharuddin, Former Cricket Captain

"Let the court decide whether Madhavan's appointment has any standing or not. We will fight out the case."
A.C. Muthiah, President, BCCI

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