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Prayers, fundraiser concerts for tsunami victims

Tibetan youth performing a cultural show to raise funds for tsunami victims on Saturday (January 15) in Dharamsala.. The funds raised will be used to adopt a village near Chennai, one of the worst affected by the disaster in India.

     New Delhi/ Dharamshala: Priests at the Sai Baba temple on Sunday performed a yagna to pray for tsunami victims, even as people continued to chip in with their donations to help the the tsunami victims. Devotees believe that since no devotee visiting the Sai Baba has ever returned empty-handed. Therefore, Sunday's prayers would ensure that efforts for the relief and rehabilitation of the tsunami victims would not fall short of providing relief to the affected people. "We held these mass prayers for the people who have lost their lives during the tsunami and also for the welfare of those who are alive," said SK Kapur, the secretary of the temple committee.

     Elsewhere, in Dharamsala, the exiled Tibetans, who took refuge here following their failed uprising against China in 1959, held a charity concert to raise money for relief. Lobsang Yeshi, the vice president of the Tibetan Youth Congress, said as refugees they understood the pain of being without a home and would do all they could to support those left without homes and separated from loved ones. "Being homeless ourselves, being a refugee we have a sense of agony and the suffering one has to go through when you don't have a home as such. So when we learnt about hundreds and hundreds of people homeless, with no future, no roof above their head we could feel what they were going through. We feel that it's our time to reciprocate a sense of support," said Yeshi. Yeshi said that most the funds would go to children who have been the worst hit by the tsunami.

CBSE gesture for the tsunami-hit children (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) has come forward to help the students from the tsunami-hit region. The CBSE has announced that students from the aforesaid region can take their class 10th and 12th examinations anywhere in the country. According to a rough estimate, the total number of such students stands at nearly 10 thousand, a good number of them from Andaman and Nicobar. To facilitate the students of Science, CBSE has offered to extend the date of the practical examinations any time after February. However, the theory examinations will be held as scheduled.

Srinagar siege: Two CRPF men killed (Go To Top)

Security forces in action near the indoor stadium adjascent to the Bakshi stadium.

     Srinagar: Dead bodies of two CRPF men, who were missing since the attack on the Srinagar indoor stadium, have been found. The bodies were found in the passport office premises inside the stadium campus, which was attacked by the militants, reportedly belonging to Al Mansurian, on Saturday. Meanwhile, Security personnel entered the passport office looking for the militants. However, according to them, one of the militants may have escaped to one of the adjacent buildings. The Srinagar indoor stadium is situated just besides the Bakshi Stadium, where Republic Day celebrations are scheduled to be held.