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Kashmir employees resent orders to join duty
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir government employees posted in the Valley, but stranded in the Jammu region, on Monday resented orders to join their duties immediately or face drastic administrative actions.
Crippled by the absence of its…
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J&K floods: 730 flood-hit people sent home from Valley
Jammu: As many as 730 people, including 390 migrant labourers, have been sent home from Kashmir Valley via Anantnag-Simthantop-Kishtwar Road in the Jammu region.
A total of 340 flood-hit victims of erstwhile Doda district and 390 migrant…
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J&K floods: As skies open up, distressed turn to shrine for shelter
Zeethyar: A house of worship is for the faithful often a doorway into the spiritual world, but when a land is caught in the devastation of terrible floods, a religious shrine can sometimes be all that stands between death and physical…
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J-K gears up for lurking health emergency, 2 lakh people rescued
SRINAGAR: With the threat of disease outbreak lurking in flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, efforts have been initiated on a war-footing to provide medical staff and medicines even as rescue operations were slightly hampered on Sunday due to…
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‘Infrastructure damage in J-K floods could touch Rs 6K crore’
Jammu and Kashmir has suffered massive damage to its public infrastructure due to the worst floods it has faced in more than a century and officials say that the State would need at least Rs 5,000 crore to rebuild the same.
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Forces lose arms, ammunition in floods
SRINAGAR: When calamity strikes, it does not discriminate. This was on ample display when floods ravaged Kashmir.
Along with civilian population, security forces deployed here from various parts of the country were also hit badly. They lost…
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Rains briefly hit relief operations, another 60,000 evacuated
SRINAGAR: Relief operations in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir were briefly hampered this morning due to rains even as the Armed forces and NDRF rescued another 60,000 people trapped in flood waters in Kashmir Valley.
Over one lakh people are…
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To restore calm, Armed Police from Jammu airlifted to Valley
SRINAGAR: In the wake of attacks on rescue teams of NDRF and army, two battalions of Armed Police have been airlifted from Jammu to flood-ravaged Kashmir Valley to maintain law and order.
A week after floods battered Srinagar, policemen are…
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Relief material dispatched to Srinagar via Sinthan Top
KISHTWAR: As the massive calamity has struck the Kashmir valley causing enormous loss of lives and property, District Development Commissioner, Kishtwar, Mohd Javed Khan has not only restored the solitary link via Sinthan to Kashmir Valley…
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Relief operation continues by army as fresh landslide hamper restoration work
RAMBAN: As relief and rescue operation continued on Sunday, fresh landslide at Ramsu hampered the reconstruction work of Border Roads Organisation. Jammu – Srinagar National Highway remained closed for the eleventh consecutive day.
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