Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday announced in the Budget for 2005-06 that the Planning Commission has drawn up Tsunami relief programme costing Rs 10,260 crore (Rs 102.6 billion).
The army is sending more men in response to the demand from the fishing community for immediate repair of their boats.
Soccer's world and European governing bodies, FIFA and UEFA, are to organise a "solidarity match" in February to help victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Sachin Tendulkar's role in the charity match for tsunami relief has been reduced only to a fielder on doctor's advice.
The World Bank said on Monday that it would "more or less" stick to its forecast of 6.5 per cent growth rate for Indian economy despite the damage suffered by the country in the tsunami tragedy.
Railway employees across the country will donate a day's salary, totalling Rs 15 crore, towards Prime Minister's Relief Fund, Lalu Prasad Yadav said.
So far, 162 bodies have been recovered from the areas in the state affected by tsunamis.
The army has despatched a 100-foot Bailey bridge to Karaikal, an enclave of Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu, to replace a bridge that was washed away by the strong waves.
Bharti's undersea fibre-optic cable connecting Chennai with Singapore has not been affected by the deadly tsunami waves, triggered by the massive quake off the Indonesian coast, its CMD Sunil Mittal said on Tuesday.
The UN called on countries to rush aid to victims of the tsunamis that hit ten countries causing over 24,000 deaths.
The ministry has also advised the Reserve Bank of India to make provisions for immediate relief in the affected areas.
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Shivraj Patil will visit AP, TN and Andaman and Nicobar islands, while Mani Shankar Aiyar and Dayanidhi Maran will go to TN.
A powerful earthquake has rocked the city of Sapporo in northern Japan just hours after large parts of the south of the country was battered by the biggest typhoon to hit in 25 years. The 6.6 magnitude quake hit the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido early Thursday, triggering landslides, bringing down several houses, and killing eight persons. No tsunami warning was issued after the quake.
'Hopefully, by May 1, we can start construction. The land has already been identified.'
The infographic shows the total number of lives lost in India in natural disasters since 1990
Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and Muttiah Muralitharan are among the cricketers who will accompany Ian Botham at various points of his latest charity walk in Sri Lanka.
'We will see a kind of disaster which the country has not seen in the last 100 years.'
A massive quake measuring 8.7 on the Richter Scale rattled northern Sumatra in Indonesia on Wednesday, at around 2:38 pm. A tsunami warning has now been issued by the US Geological Survey after the quake.
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Srini was at the IAF base in Andaman and Nicobar's Car Nicobar Island, when the killer waves struck.
Tokyo would be an inspirational choice to host the 2020 Olympic Games, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Olympic officials on Monday, with Japan keen to showcase its recovery from a devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
While thousands of people lost their lives when gigantic tsunami waves hit the region here on Sunday, a 20-day-old baby girl remarkably survived, thanks to a floating mattress.
The memorial is situated on a piece of rock, where Vivekananda is said to have meditated, in Tamil Nadu.
People living in coastal areas should take special care during the next two days, experts have warned.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, which is drilling both in deep water and shallow water off the coast of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, is assessing the damages the huge waves could have caused to its installations.
Researchers have pinpointed the locations -- like Indonesia's Sumatra Island -- where the world's largest earthquakes are most likely to take place, with greater accuracy than ever before.
'The steady poverty reduction achieved over the last three decades could be largely reversed in this one financial year with hundreds of millions sliding below the red line,' warns Devangshu Datta.
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