Chungthang: One year on and we go back and find people still battling those scars everyday. Chungthang, one of the worst affected areas during the 2011 Sikkim earthquake looks almost frozen in time.
People here continue to live with the gaping cracks in unsafe buildings ducking death everyday. While some like 56-year-old Paden live cramped with their lives belongings in homes put together with borrowed tins.
One of the quake victims Paden Lepcha said, "We had heard that the govt would demolish the house and build a new one. Nothing has happened. We don't have money to demolish our house or build a new one."
Another victim Passangkit Lepcha said, "If earthquake comes it's better to die in our own house, we are compelled to stay here. We have nowhere to go."...
more
09:42 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Chungthang: It's been a year since a powerful earthquake rocked Sikkim wiping out many lives. CNN-IBN visited Chungthang, one of the worst-affected areas, where survivors are reminded of the trauma every day. Chungthang looks almost frozen in time. People continue to live with gaping cracks in unsafe buildings ducking death everyday. While some like 56-year-old Paden Lepcha live cramped with their lives belongings in homes put together with borrowed tins....
09:53 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Gangtok: It has been a month since the devastating Sikkim earthquake and the relief and rehabilitation work is still on. However, there are still some pockets where rescue work is slow because they're accessible only by choppers. The Sikkim earthquake had rocked the tiny Himalayan state on September 18. A month later, one of the affected schools has been shifted to another location, but classes are yet to begin. Though...
08:33 AM, Oct 18, 2011
I somehow get to visit exotic locales when tragedy strikes. When the earth shook on the evening of 18th of September , with its epicentre ...
04:03 PM, Oct 13, 2011
![Karma Paljor]( "Karma Paljor")
I had come to reach the tapes to the helicopter pilot at the helipad in Chungthang, the village most badly hit by the earthquake. You ...
12:24 PM, Oct 07, 2011
![Karma Paljor]( "Karma Paljor")
Lt Colonel MMA Hyderi of the 659th Army Aviation Squadron was going to be a father in a few days, so there was much excitement ...
02:11 PM, Oct 04, 2011
CNN-IBN's Karma Paljor brings us the amazing story of rescue operation of an injured Border Roads Organisation Engineer who was winched up into a helicopter from the Chungtham-Mangan highway. In a rare and daring effort, the chopper remained suspended in air barely a foot over the ground in a mountainous zone. CNN-IBN caught the rescue on camera and spoke to the co-pilot. ...
03:09 PM, Oct 03, 2011
CNN-IBN's Karma Paljor brings us the amazing story of rescue operation of an injured Border Roads Organisation Engineer who was winched up into a helicopter from the Chungtham-Mangan highway. In a rare and daring effort, the chopper remained suspended in air barely a foot over the ground in a mountainous zone. CNN-IBN caught the rescue on camera and spoke to the co-pilot. ...
03:09 PM, Oct 03, 2011
Gangtok: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday announced a Rs1,000 crore grant to Sikkim to tide over the devastation caused by the September 18 earthquake that killed 80 people and caused large scale damage to private property. "The Prime Minister announced a Rs1,000 crore package to Sikkim and also assured all help and cooperation from the central government to fight the tragedy and devastation caused by the earthquake," a Sikkim...
02:04 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Kolkata: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to visit earthquake-hit areas of Sikkim on September 29. West Bengal Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh told reporters that the PM would reach Gangtok via Bagdogra in north Bengal from Delhi. ...
04:17 PM, Sep 27, 2011
This week on 30 Minutes, watch how the magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck Sikkim on September 18 changed lives there. ...
09:10 AM, Sep 25, 2011
Gangtok: It has been a week since an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 devastated Sikkim. killing 74 people and injuring many others. The death toll in the earthquake has hit 130 people. Most of the connecting roads in Sikkim have started opening up again even as rescue and relief work continues despite heavy rains and mudslides. 52 new relief camps have also been set up. The main concern now is to...
08:06 AM, Sep 25, 2011
Gangtok: It has been almost a week since a powerful earthquake struck Sikkim. 75 people have died so far. But rumours and false reports of 17 people being buried alive in a tunnel collapsed caused many to panic. CNN-IBN's team travelled to a hydroelectricity project site in Chungthang and found out if all was well and that the tunnel was intact and workers were unharmed. Rumours spread thick and fast...
10:32 AM, Sep 24, 2011
Gangtok: The northeastern state of Sikkim is fighting its worst crisis in decades. The life in the quake-hit state has been affected severely, and the monasteries have not been spared either. More than 400 monks of the Rumtek Monastery, one of the largest monasteries in Sikkim, have been sleeping in an open courtyard for the last six days. The quake that struck Sikkim on Sunday evening left them with no...
08:22 AM, Sep 24, 2011
New Delhi: Over 10,000 food packets were airdropped in the quake-hit areas of north Sikkim as two major roads connecting the region remained blocked due to landslides after Sunday's powerful temblor. Home Ministry officials on Friday said 10,000 food packets have been air-dropped so far in the northern part of North District while another 5000 food packets are ready for being sent to Chungthan, Lachung and Lachen. "15 helicopters of...
06:06 PM, Sep 23, 2011
Gangtok: Rescue work has been suspended in Sikkim due to thick fog and heavy clouds. There were reports of multiple landslides in North Sikkim after heavy rains in the area. Officials say that the critical stage of the rescue operation is almost over and the death toll in Sunday's earthquake has mounted to 117, out of which 75 people have died in Sikkim alone. In fact, the state experienced another...
02:49 PM, Sep 23, 2011
New Delhi: The trauma and the terrifying experience of Sunday's earthquake continues to haunt the people of Sikkim. The children of a boarding school spoke to CNN-IBN about how they spent their nights huddled up together in fear. The young survivors of Sunday's earthquake that shook Sikkim are praying to god for courage. The 113 students of the boarding school spent their nights huddled together in four rooms - they...
07:45 AM, Sep 23, 2011
Gangtok: Four days after a powerful earthquake hit the state, leaving behind a trail of deaths and devastations, Sikkim on Thursday again felt minor tremors of 3.9 magnitude. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) sources, the quake measuring 3.9 magnitude in the Richter scale hit the state at 10.15 pm. The epicentre of the quake was in Sikkim. Panicked residents in the state capital came out of their homes...
12:17 AM, Sep 23, 2011
A bus was hit by a landslide on the Chungthang-Mangan highway and the injured engineer was airlifted. ...
03:27 PM, Sep 22, 2011
New Delhi: Just days after a massive earthquake hit Sikkim, the northeastern state was on Thursday hit by flash floods. The flash floods hit Lachung, located in north Sikkim district near China border, damaging at least two houses, including one Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp. As many as 100 people have been stranded due to the flash floods that occurred on Thursday. Meanwhile, rescue operations are on in the quake-hit...
01:21 PM, Sep 22, 2011
