Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday announced an interim relief of Rs 1,000 crore for immediate relief works and the restoration of infrastructure in earthquake-ravaged Sikkim.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit earthquake hit Sikkim on September 27. Sikkim’s information and public relations secretary Karma Tobgay said that Singh would be visiting the state on September 27 to take stock of the situation. Amitava Banerjee reports.
With a portion of a mountain caving in and several areas completely ravaged, the Army has said it will take some time to open the road from Tung up to Lanchen and Lachung in North Sikkim which bore the brunt of Sunday's devastating temblor.
As many as 17 more bodies were found in North Sikkim today, taking the toll in quake-hit Himalayan state to 92 even as rescue workers inched their way into the devastated North district villages on foot.
A seven-storied residential apartment in this Sikkim capital caved in Friday, killing three people and injuring 50.
On Sunday morning, Mathew Lepcha, 33, attended mass with his wife, 27-year-old Nirmala Tamang. Pramod Giri reports.
Four days after the earthquake, nature's nightmare remains etched in 57-year-old PD Rai's memory as fresh as ever. "There is not a single house in entire Sikkim that has not suffered some damage.
People in Gangtok scampered out of their homes tonight as a mild tremor hit the Sikkim capital only four days after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake had caused largescal deaths and devastations in the state, northeast region and some other parts of the country
Seven more bodies were found in the quake rubble, taking the death toll in the calamity in Sikkim to 60 as rescuers today struggled to reach the devastated areas where "heavy casualties" were feared.
Thirty-five tourists, including two from Norway, were on Wednesday airlifted by the Army from Lachung village, one of the worst-hit quake areas in Sikkim.
Rescuers on Thursday finally reached villages in remote northeast that were cut off by a powerful earthquake that rattled the Himalayan region last weekend, as the death toll in the disaster climbed past 100.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met her Sikkim counterpart Pawan Kumar Chamling and offered him all assistance to meet the situation arising out of Sunday's quake.
More than 3,000 people were rescued in quake-hit areas of Sikkim by defence forces which scrambled hard to clear debris of collapsed structures and landslides as the death toll in Sunday's powerful temblor shot up to 92.
Weather disrupts quake rescue work 
Sikkim government employee Gunjala Bania and two others travelling with her did not feel the earthquake when they were returning by jeep from Siliguri in West Bengal on Sunday.