-The Telegraph Lucknow: Schoolchildren near Badrinath doodled tidal waves, broken houses and carcasses when asked recently to draw whatever they wanted. A health worker in the same district recalled a mother going repeatedly to the bank of a pond near her home in search of her two children feared dead 15 days ago. Another woman says she is having nightmares about being "engulfed by tidal waves any time" since losing her husband and...

-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: After the UK drug regulator, the Australian drug regulator has also said that the drugs marketed by Ranbaxy Labs are safe. "At present, there is no evidence that any of the products in the Australian market manufactured by Ranbaxy are of an unacceptable quality or that there is a danger to consumers in Australia," a spokesperson for the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) told ET. The Australian...

-The Hindu     Ignou's dual talk leaves students in the lurch Nobody would have thought that in less than two years of setting up of the first Indian Sign Language Research & Training Centre (ISLRTC) for the hearing-impaired, plans would be afoot to shut it down. But that is what seems to be happening at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) campus here. Vice-Chancellor M. Aslam categorically told The Hindu that there was...

-The Times of India DEHRADUN: As if heart-wrenching images of children separated from their parents in the Uttarakhand disaster were not enough, state chief secretary Subhash Kumar on Wednesday is learnt to have told a four-member Team of National Commission for Child Protection Rights that 1,227 children were reported missing in the state since the flashfloods. A top Uttarakhand IAS official told TOI that Kumar informed members of the visiting Team that...

-The Indian Express Shirwani, Pitora, Deoli (Uttarakhand): Over a fortnight after the flash-floods, while many villages remain inaccessible by road, tragic stories are emerging from areas where dirt tracks have been opened up. About seven kilometres from Guptkashi, the six-odd hamlets that comprise the Deoli-Bramhagram panchayat have reported 57 men missing, and the area is fast getting the tag of the "village of widows". For about six months of the year,...