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| Unravelling the tsunami mystery |
| What really caused last December’s tsunami' No, it wasn’t a gigantic underwater landslide but an earthquake which burst open 1,200 km of a fault line near the Sumatran coast, pushing up a length of an undersea mountain range, reports Anirban Das Mahapatra |
| It was a fistful of grey sediment, scooped out from the ocean floor some five kilometres below sea level, that held the answer which had eluded the world for a year. And Indian marine biologist Baban Ingole was among the first to know. ... | Read.. |
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| Tee to tango |
| Like always, Frenchman Ashley Roffey skipped the mandatory-for-tourists boat ride on Ooty Lake and photo session of the Dodab ... | Read.. |
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| Street smart |
| An average city girl sticks to a set of rules on the streets: never be alone on a dark, deserted lane; never walk too close to a parked or a moving car; ... | Read.. |
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| Hide your love away |
| In Nepal, by the Pokhra lake, the locals will nod at the benches strewn around and explain cheerfully that these are for courting couples ... | Read.. |
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LIKE A PRAYER: Family member of a tsunami victim releases traditional floating flowers with burning candles during a memorial service at Phuket Unravelling the tsunami mystery |
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