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ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 142617" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">Nearly 400 dead or missing in New Zealand quake</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: navy">Second earthquake to hit Christchurch in five months</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">By Chris Foley, Agence France-Presse - February 21, 2011</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy"><strong>CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand</strong> - New Zealand rescuers worked frantically through the night Wednesday to reach trapped survivors after a catastrophic earthquake left nearly 400 people dead or missing in Christchurch.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Prime Minister John Key, declaring a national emergency after New Zealand's worst natural disaster in 80 years, said the region around the country's second-largest city had suffered "death and destruction on a dreadful scale".</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Rescuers had to amputate limbs from survivors to free them from smouldering ruins of buildings reduced to debris in minutes, while dazed survivors were plucked from the rubble in a desperate overnight rescue mission.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Christchurch resident Tom Brittenden said he saw a woman die with her baby in her arms when she was hit by falling debris in the city's Cashel St Mall. Her baby survived but she was killed instantly.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">"We tried to pull these big bricks off (her) . . . she was gone," he told the Christchurch Press.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Rescuers had recovered 75 bodies since the 6.3-magnitude quake struck at lunchtime Tuesday, and about 300 people were still missing, officials said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">The quake was the deadliest to hit New Zealand since 256 people died in a 1931 tremor, and it came six months after a 7.0-magnitude quake weakened buildings in Christchurch but miraculously resulted in no deaths.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">The latest tremor toppled many buildings and left central Christchurch strewn with debris. The city's landmark cathedral lost its spire. Dozens of aftershocks rocked the city Tuesday and overnight, hampering rescue efforts.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Police Superintendent Russell Gibson warned that the toll was certain to rise as more than 500 emergency workers combed through shattered buildings, listening out for any signs of life.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">"There is incredible carnage right throughout the city," he told Radio New Zealand. "There are bodies littering the streets, they are trapped in cars and crushed under rubble."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Most of the city remained without power and Gibson said rescue crews working through the night had freed 20-30 people, some at desperate cost.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">"It's quite amazing, we have some people we've pulled out and they haven't got so much as a scratch on them, we've had other people where we've had to amputate limbs to get them out," he said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Gibson said rescuers were going door to door through the city centre, with efforts concentrating on two city centre office buildings where survivors had managed to communicate with them.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">"We are getting texts and tapping sounds from some of these buildings and that's where the focus is at the moment," he said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">However, fire service national commander Mike Hall said his officers had incorrectly reported that 15 people had been pulled alive from a collapsed six-storey office block.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">"I have since been advised that it was a false report and that it is not true," he told TVNZ, while police confirmed that no survivors had yet been recovered from the collapsed Canterbury TV building.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Prime Minister Key, who has described the disaster as possibly "New Zealand's darkest day", said: "No words that can spare our pain. We are witnessing the havoc caused by a violent and ruthless act of nature."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Twenty-four Japanese citizens were among the missing, including 11 foreign-language students, Japanese reports said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Japan, Australia and the United States were among countries sending rescuers to help.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Britain's Queen Elizabeth, who is New Zealand's head of state, said she was "utterly shocked" while U.S. President Barack Obama offered his "deepest condolences", as expressions of sympathy poured in from around the globe.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Seismologists said that despite being smaller, the latest tremor was more destructive than the September quake because it was nearer to Christchurch's centre and much closer to the earth's surface.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">New Zealand sits on the "Pacific Ring of Fire", a vast zone of seismic and volcanic activity stretching from Chile on one side to Japan and Indonesia on the other.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">© Copyright (c) AFP</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">source: </span><a href="http://www.{censored}/news/Nearly+dead+missing+Zealand+quake/4329104/story.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">http://www.{censored}/news/Nearly+dead+missing+Zealand+quake/4329104/story.html</span></u></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 142617, member: 884"] [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=navy]Nearly 400 dead or missing in New Zealand quake[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=2][COLOR=navy]Second earthquake to hit Christchurch in five months[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [COLOR=navy]By Chris Foley, Agence France-Presse - February 21, 2011[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy][B]CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand[/B] - New Zealand rescuers worked frantically through the night Wednesday to reach trapped survivors after a catastrophic earthquake left nearly 400 people dead or missing in Christchurch.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Prime Minister John Key, declaring a national emergency after New Zealand's worst natural disaster in 80 years, said the region around the country's second-largest city had suffered "death and destruction on a dreadful scale".[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Rescuers had to amputate limbs from survivors to free them from smouldering ruins of buildings reduced to debris in minutes, while dazed survivors were plucked from the rubble in a desperate overnight rescue mission.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Christchurch resident Tom Brittenden said he saw a woman die with her baby in her arms when she was hit by falling debris in the city's Cashel St Mall. Her baby survived but she was killed instantly.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"We tried to pull these big bricks off (her) . . . she was gone," he told the Christchurch Press.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Rescuers had recovered 75 bodies since the 6.3-magnitude quake struck at lunchtime Tuesday, and about 300 people were still missing, officials said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The quake was the deadliest to hit New Zealand since 256 people died in a 1931 tremor, and it came six months after a 7.0-magnitude quake weakened buildings in Christchurch but miraculously resulted in no deaths.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The latest tremor toppled many buildings and left central Christchurch strewn with debris. The city's landmark cathedral lost its spire. Dozens of aftershocks rocked the city Tuesday and overnight, hampering rescue efforts.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Police Superintendent Russell Gibson warned that the toll was certain to rise as more than 500 emergency workers combed through shattered buildings, listening out for any signs of life.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"There is incredible carnage right throughout the city," he told Radio New Zealand. "There are bodies littering the streets, they are trapped in cars and crushed under rubble."[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Most of the city remained without power and Gibson said rescue crews working through the night had freed 20-30 people, some at desperate cost.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"It's quite amazing, we have some people we've pulled out and they haven't got so much as a scratch on them, we've had other people where we've had to amputate limbs to get them out," he said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Gibson said rescuers were going door to door through the city centre, with efforts concentrating on two city centre office buildings where survivors had managed to communicate with them.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"We are getting texts and tapping sounds from some of these buildings and that's where the focus is at the moment," he said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]However, fire service national commander Mike Hall said his officers had incorrectly reported that 15 people had been pulled alive from a collapsed six-storey office block.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"I have since been advised that it was a false report and that it is not true," he told TVNZ, while police confirmed that no survivors had yet been recovered from the collapsed Canterbury TV building.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Prime Minister Key, who has described the disaster as possibly "New Zealand's darkest day", said: "No words that can spare our pain. We are witnessing the havoc caused by a violent and ruthless act of nature."[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Twenty-four Japanese citizens were among the missing, including 11 foreign-language students, Japanese reports said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Japan, Australia and the United States were among countries sending rescuers to help.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Britain's Queen Elizabeth, who is New Zealand's head of state, said she was "utterly shocked" while U.S. President Barack Obama offered his "deepest condolences", as expressions of sympathy poured in from around the globe.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Seismologists said that despite being smaller, the latest tremor was more destructive than the September quake because it was nearer to Christchurch's centre and much closer to the earth's surface.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]New Zealand sits on the "Pacific Ring of Fire", a vast zone of seismic and volcanic activity stretching from Chile on one side to Japan and Indonesia on the other.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]© Copyright (c) AFP[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]source: [/COLOR][URL="http://www.{censored}/news/Nearly+dead+missing+Zealand+quake/4329104/story.html"][U][COLOR=navy]http://www.{censored}/news/Nearly+dead+missing+Zealand+quake/4329104/story.html[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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