GOD’S punishment for Christians, Jayalalitha, TN, AP, for the arrest of SEER

GOD’S punishment for Christians, Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh for the arrest of Hindu SEER
The Christians were at the Marina beach continuing their celebration of Christmas on the Sunday morning. Many were Christian visitors from Bangalore and similar cities and have come to visit their relatives in Chennai. Fate had intervened and many of these people are never to be seen again by their relatives because of a series of three tidal waves that swept the famous Marina Beach of Chennai in the morning of 26th December 2004. Posh shops that were doing brisk Christmas sales at the beach were washed away. Even the Santome area where the Santome church was constructed on the Kapileswara temple site after destroying the Kapileswara temple in 1561 was affected by the tidal wave. More than 2000 people were killed as per the initial estimate in Tamil Nadu alone. Reports indicate that more than 600 persons are still missing in Chennai city. Many of the bodies recovered and brought to the mortuary were those of the visitors to Chennai. If we Hindus follow what the Christians and muslims who attribute these type of natural fury to their God’s punishment on other religions, then this tidal wave destruction must be the Hindu GOD’S punishment for Christians, Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh for the arrest of the Hindu Seer, the Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati.
It was not long ago the Kerala Christian, T. John, when he was the civil aviation minister in Karnataka state, had said that the Gujarat earthquake, was the punishment of God to the people for ill-treating Christians in Gujarat. The muslim terrorist Osama bin Laden described the 2002 Afghanistan earthquake as God's punishment against those who supported the American-led war against terror. So the Hindu thinking that the tidal wave that killed mostly Christmas celebrating Christmas, and the public that voted Jayalalitha and the public that voted for the Christian Rajasekhar Reddy of Andhra Pradesh is the Hindu God’s punishment to the persons responsible for the arrest of the Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati. We are yet to see what is going to be the fate of Jayalalitha, as many devote Hindus had made trips to Sabarimala praying for the sudden death of Jayalalitha who insulted their Seer.
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1,100 killed in TN tidal waves
Chennai, Dec 26: At least 1,100 persons were killed and several thousand others reported missing in Tamil Nadu as huge tidal waves, triggered by a powerful quake in Indonesia, hit the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu this morning.
While Chennai city accounted for nearly 125 deaths, the coastal Nagapattinam district reported at least 400 deaths, Cuddalore and Kanyakumari districts 180 and 150 deaths respectively, police said adding the figure was likely to go up further.
At least 102 persons were killed in the Union territory of Pondicherry. Police said more bodies were likely to be washed ashore.
In Kancheepuram district, 40 persons died when a church in Pudupattinam collapsed, reportedly due to the impact of the quake.
In Kalpakkam, 25 persons, 15 of them women, were reported dead. Most of the casualties took place as seawater washed away those sleeping near the coast, particularly fishermen. At least 400 fishermen were reported missing in Chennai.
Nearly 60 deaths were reported in Pondicherry and Karaikal areas which come under the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
Lakhs of people living in coastal areas of Tamil Nadu had a shock this morning, when there were tremors caused by an earthquake, measuring 8.5 on the Richter, closely followed by massive tidal waves.
Seawater entered several thousand homes in Santhome, Foreshore Estate, Tiruvanmiyur, Royapuram and Triplicane areas in Chennai. Panic-stricken people rushed out of their houses as water surged in. Many were washed away. In Royapettah Government Hospital alone, there were 60 bodies, police said.
The Chennai Corporation has made arrangements for those rendered homeless. Over two lakh food packets had been distributed and shelter provided in Corporation schools, sources said.
The Atomic Power Plant at Kalpakkam, near Chennai, was also affected as seawater entered the complex.
The state government has urged the people not to panic.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has deputed two Union ministers to visit the affected areas and help the affected.
Earlier in the morning, tremors were felt in several areas of Chennai, including Santhome, Triplicane, Adyar, T Nagar, Kodambakkam and Virugambakkam. (RR)
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Tidal waves wreak havoc in AP
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Hyderabad, Dec 26: At least 38 persons were killed and thousands were missing as tremors struck the coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh this morning, triggering huge tidal waves, official sources said here.
"Fifteen deaths were reported in Prakasham district, 20 in Krishna and three in West Godavari district while hinterlands were marooned in the nine coastal districts," the sources said.
A report from Machlipatnam, quoting Krishna district collector K Prabhakar Reddy, said 10 bodies were recovered from the sea at Manginipudi, near Machlipatnam, and the toll may go up as some of the fishermen living nearby are still missing.
Parts of Prakasham, Nellore, Krishna and Guntur districts were badly affected by the huge tidal waves lashing the coastal plains and many villages were marooned with many fishermen missing. The state administration is gearing up for rescue, the sources said.
The toll could be high as many fishing villages were submerged in seawater, the sources said here.
Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy is leaving for the worst-hit Singarayakonda in Prakasham district and has deputed his Cabinet colleagues to each of the affected district.
"The gravity and nature of the calamity is being assessed and teams have been sent to all the affected areas while we have requisitioned additional helicopters for rescue work," the sources added. (Agencies)

Published: Sunday, December 26, 2004

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100 washed away in Chennai city
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Chennai, Dec 26: At least 150 people were washed away, including 100 in Chennai city, and over 100 reportedly missing as the huge tidal waves swept through their dwelling units along the coastal areas in various parts of Tamil Nadu in the aftermath of a tremor that struck the state early this morning, according to police sources.
In Chennai city alone at least 100 people had been swept away in the flash floods, mostly in the northern part of the city, like Tiruvotriyur, Ennore and Royapuram. The impact was felt even in other southern parts of the city like Besant Nagar, police here said.
In the coastal district of Cuddalore, at least 42 people were killed, besides five in Nagapattinam and one in Kancheepuram, police said, adding many more were missing and they were trying to ascertain this figure.
The panic that had gripped the city and other parts of the city as the news of tremor broke out, has now receded as normalcy was slowly returning. Relief and rescue work was now in full swing and Chief Minister Jayalalitha is scheduled to go an aerial survey of the affected coastal districts of the state. (Our Correspondent)

Published: Sunday, December 26, 2004

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Thousands killed as tidal waves lash parts of southern India
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said as many as 1,000 people have been killed across the country as tsunami waves lashed parts of southern India. A massive earthquake in Indonesia triggered the tsunami waves in southeast Asia and coastal India. The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.9, making it the biggest in 40 years and the fifth strongest since 1900.

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87 killed in tidal waves in Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At least 87 people were killed and about 250 injured as sea waves swept several areas in coastal Kerala, which were jolted by the massive Indonesian earthquake this morning.
Top police officials here told reporters that 75 people were killed in Kollam, ten in Alappuzha, one in Kannur and one in Vypeen in Ernakulam districts.
Thousands of people, including 2000 from the fishing harbour of Vizhinjam near the famous Kovalam beach resort, were being shifted to safer areas after their villages were inundated by massive waves this morning.
A report from Kollam said 75 people, including two children and two women were killed in the sudden surge of water in Karunagapally area in the district, while one woman was killed in a house collapse, two girls playing on the beach were swept away. A 60 year old fisherman, brought injured to the Karunagapally taluk hospital, succumbed to injuries. One Santha, 45 of Sakthikulangara in Kollam was swept away from the beach.
Details were awaited about the other casualties, police said. Fifteen injured were being treated at the Karunagapally taluk hospital.
A report from Alappuzha said ten people were killed in various mishaps triggered by the tidal waves. These included four women who were drying fish on the sea shore at Azheekkal near Cherthala and were washed away by the high tides. All four bodies had been recovered, police sources said.
One man was swept away by the crashing waves in Kannur. Several fishermen were reported stranded on the deep seas. Many houses were also reported damaged in the coastal areas of the affected districts and fishing boats and other equipment washed away.
The government has ordered a quick aid of Rs 50,000 for the kin of the dead.

Many boats have been washed away in parts of Thankasseri. The Kollam collector has asked the people living in the coastal banks to evacuate the place as soon as possible. Many huts were damaged in Cherthala in Alappuzha district.
Thousands killed as tidal waves lash parts of southern India
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said as many as 1,000 people have been killed across the country as tsunami waves lashed parts of southern India.
A massive earthquake in Indonesia triggered the tsunami waves in southeast Asia and coastal India.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.9, making it the biggest in 40 years and the fifth strongest since 1900.
Tamil Nadu was the "worst affected" with possibly over 800 people killed, Patil told reporters after a meeting of the Crisis Management Group (CMG) in New Delhi.
In Andhra Pradesh, over 200 people were feared killed, he said.
The Nuclear Power station in Kalapakkam near Chennai has been safely shut down after water entered it.
The casualty figure could rise further as many fishing villages were submerged in seawater
In Andaman, as many as 14 people were killed, Patil said, adding that the damage due to the tidal wave in Car Nicobar and Greater Andamans was "higher" but details were yet to come in due to snapping of communication links.

Patil said that coastal areas of West Bengal had also suffered damage but he had not been able to contact Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya as yet.
He said he is likely to visit the affected areas either this evening or tomorrow.
Patil said thousands of people have been evacuated from the affected areas. He said the priority was to provide relief to the victims including food, medicines and blankets.
Authorities in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh were carrying out relief and rescue operation on a war footing, the Home Minister said.
The Centre, he said, is doing all that is necessary to mitigate the suffering of the people and provide relief.
Rocket launch facility escapes unscathed
BANGALORE: India's main rocket launching facility at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh has escaped unscathed from tidal wave onslaught on the eastern coast of the country.
''We have had no problem. Some water entered the road outside the complex, but there has been no incident at the facility,'' Satish Dhawan Space Centre Director K Narayana told.
''We did not realize the scale of the disaster until we saw the extent of the damage to other places on the east coast. I guess we have been fortunate,'' he added.
The complex, spread over 40,000 acres, is located on an island about 100 km north of Chennai.
Naval warships leave for Sri Lanka, relief sent to Andaman
NEW DELHI: Five naval warships loaded with relief supplies have left for Sri Lanka as Indian Air Force dispatched three AN-32 transport aircraft carrying relief and medical supplies to earthquake and tidal wave devastated Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands.

Naval Chief Admiral Arun Prakash, has directed that five naval warships from Mumbai, Cochin and Vishakhapatnam to set sail for Trincomallee and Galle ports in Sri Lanka in response to a SOS received from the Sri Lankan Government.

He said warships are carrying rescue helicopters and boats, naval divers and relief and medical supplies and will be assisting the Sri Lankan Navy in rescue operations.

Three AN-32 IAF transport aircraft left for Port Blair and Karnic airfields in the Andaman group of Islands carrying relief and medical supplies.

According to Defense Ministry sources, Nicobar Island and the Campbell Bay have suffered infrastructural damages with the water having lodged the landing strip at Nicobar Island. Campbell Bay and Nicobar Island are the nearest points to Sumatra in Indonesia which was the epicenter of the earthquake.

The sources said that no death of service personnel has been reported so far and efforts were on to re-establish communication links with Nicobar Island and Campbell Bay.

Naval warships have been sent out all along the Eastern coast to rescue trapped fishermen and civilian passenger liners, Naval spokesman said.

500 tourists stranded on Vivekananda Memorial
KANNIYAKUMARI: Nearly 500 tourists were stranded on the famous Vivekananda Rock Memorial as the shuttle ferry service from here to the popular tourist spot was suspended at 10:50 am following high tides, triggered by this morning's massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean, police said.

Among the stranded include Supreme Court Judge C P Mathur and his family.
Local police told the media that 50 feet high tides were still hitting the coast, making operation of the ferry service impossible. The local authorities had sought helicopter rescue services to evacuate the stranded tourists, estimated to be about 500.
The Vivekananda Rock memorial and the nearby Thiruvalluvar statue, about 500m from this mainland point, had been seeing a heavy turnout of visitors due to the Christmas and New Year holidays.
The memorial, built in 1970, is dedicated to the great social reformer Swami Vivekananda, who had meditated on the rock.
102 killed, 90 injured in Pondy
PONDICHERRY: Over 102 people were killed and more than 90 injured as several parts of this Union Territory of Pondicherry was rocked by a two-second mild tremor this morning.
Education and Revenue Minister K Lakshminarayan, who went around the coastal area, told reporters that the people of the Union Territory were totally devastated. Those who were rendered homeless are being shifted to government schools and marriage halls and steps have been initiated to prepare food for them through a centralized kitchen.
He said 30 bodies were brought to the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Science.
An equal number of bodies were washed ashore in the Karaikal region and five at Murthykuppam coast. Several more were reported missing.
Lakshminarayan said the official machinery had been geared up and police were taking efforts to evacuate all the people residing in the coastal areas to ensure that nobody stayed there on Sunday night.
Adequate compensation would be given to the kin of the deceased and to those injured, he added.
The tremor, which was experienced at about 0715 hours, lasted for two seconds only. Frightened people ran out of their homes in several areas.
Over 200 dead, 100's missing in AP
HYDERABAD: Over 200 people were feared dead and several hundreds missing in the tidal waves that swept across several coastal villages in Andhra Pradesh in the aftermath of the tremors triggered by the massive Indonesian earthquake.
Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy told reporters that 42 people were feared dead according to information so far received and that the entire coast was affected.
Before leaving to get first-hand information on the ravaged areas along with Finance Minister K Rosaiah by helicopter, he said a massive evacuation drive was on all along the coast.
He also announced the establishment of control rooms both at the state and district headquarters. The Collectors had already initiated relief measures, he said and added he had contacted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who had assured every possible help to the state.

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Reports from Port Blair said jetties on Neil Island and Havelock Island and the Hati Tapu Jetty in the Andaman were badly damaged in the tidal waves and some boats were submerged.
Some cars were washed away near a religious place in 'Mazar Pahad' area. Island authorities are readying the Rabindra Bangla Vidyalaya in Port Blair to accommodate families that may have been affected by the quake, which is of a devastating intensity.
100 feared drowned in Cuddalore as seawater enters low-level areas
CHENNAI: More than 100 people were feared drowned as sea water entered coastal villages in Cuddalore district following mild tremors.
Reports reaching here from Cuddalore said seawater had entered into at least four villages and the district administration had evacuated about 20,000 to 25,000 people from the affected areas.
Panic stricken people, some of them completely drenched, were seen running to places of safety.
Chennai and its suburbs experienced mild but widespread tremors at around 06 45 hrs.
However, no casualties were reported in the city so far because of the mild earthquake, which lasted for two to five seconds.
In some places, people ran out into the streets to safety while reports from other parts of the city and suburbs said residents sought shelter under various objects.
When contacted, the Meteorological office said that they were studying the impact of the tremors and would come out with a report soon.
The earthquake was witnessed in the entire East coast and was felt in Triplicane, Besant Nagar, Tiruvanmayur, Valmiki Nagar and Neelankarai areas.
Suburbs like Ambattur, Poonamallee and Valasaravakkam also experienced the tremors.
About 3 hrs after the earthquake, there were huge tidal waves in the Bay of Bengal, catching those walking on the beach and the people living on the shores by surprise.
At around 0915 hrs, the waves swept the Marina, near the Light House, and sea water, after crossing the Kamarajar Salai, entered the All India Radio and other premises. ''There is knee deep water at the AIR premises,'' a senior official told reporters.
Tremor rocks Chennai, AP, Orissa and W Bengal
CHENNAI: Panic gripped residents in the metropolis and suburbs rushed out of their houses after they felt tremors around 6.35 this morning.
The local Met office confirmed the tremor, but said it would take some more time for them to know the intensity of the tremor.

The shock was also felt in Tirupati and Vijayanagaram in the neighboring Andhra Pradesh, the sources said. Police said so far they had not received any report of casualty or damage.

The tremor of 'very low intensity' was felt in entire Andhra Pradesh coast right from Srikakulam and also in some parts of Chennai city, Met sources said.

'The data is being analyzed and the exact intensity will be known only after about an hour', the sources said.

People in some parts of Chennai city felt the tremor and they ran out of their houses, according to the telephone calls received by the Met office. 'Glass panes of windows shook and we also felt the shock', the sources said.

A report from Bhubaneswar said that a tremor shook this capital city and its neighborhood at around 6.40 AM today. Quoting official sources the report said that though the Indian Meteorological Office (IMD) here confirmed that a tremor had been recorded, no details were given.

Doors and windows rattled as people rushed out of houses and apartments.
IMD sources said that the seismological observatory would provide the details later in the day. "We can inform you only after the analysis is made," they said.

A mild tremor was felt in various south Bengal districts at 6.43 AM as well, met office sources said here.

The earthquake was reported from the districts of North and South 24 Parganas, Bankura, Nadia and East and West Midnapore besides the tourist town of Digha.

However, no details of the tremor were provided by the met office. The sources said a report was sent to Delhi.