The truth’s somewhere at 6.9 or 7.9
D.N. MOORTY joins the number-crunching over the exact magnitude of the earthquake that rocked Gujarat.



Battle in the court
With Mohammad Azharuddin taking the Board of Control for Cricket in India to court over his ban from the game for match-fixing, we are in for a long season.



The importance of the structural engineer
We have two broad kinds of natural calamities to contend with: cyclones and earthquakes. When we design buildings we must, therefore, come up with proper dynamic analyses and designs for each individual structure, keeping various criteria in mind, including geographical factors.



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